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Nvidia GeForce 9800 GX2 drops in price
Author: Tim SmalleyPublished: 21st March 2008
Availability of Nvidia's GeForce 9800 GX2 is "OK" after a few days on the market. Either the card isn't selling brilliantly, or there is enough stock to keep up with demand.
On launch day, the GeForce 9800 GX2 was sitting around the £435 (inc. VAT) mark and today, a few partner cards are sitting below the £400 mark.
Scan appears to be the retailer with the best range of products in stock, and also the lowest average price (discounting those with just one product in stock) at £404.78 including VAT. What's more, four of the cards that are available on Scan are currently sitting under the £400 mark and that includes the XFX card that we reviewed on launch day.
CCL, on the other hand, comes up trumps with the lowest-priced card in stock – BFG Tech's GeForce 9800 GX2, priced at an attractive £374.99 (inc. VAT). Ebuyer is listing Point of View's card at £360.00, but sadly the retailer has no stock available yet.
Overclockers UK is doing its usual with a massively cut-priced "OcUK" version that comes in a white box with just a one year warranty – this sits at a pretty incredible £352.49 (inc. VAT). Of course, it's not a full retail product and the warranty is very short, but almost 28 percent of polled bit-tech forum members are just after the card in a white box.
| Nvidia GeForce 9800 GX2 pricing (21st March 2008) | ||||||||
| Board Partner | Scan | Overclockers | Ebuyer | Dabs | Komplett | Aria | Micro Direct | CCL |
| Asus | £414.78 | £434.74 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| BFG Tech | £393.60 | £422.99 | NA | NA | NA | NA | £407.14 | £374.99 |
| EVGA | £421.83 | £422.99 | NA | £422.87 | £419.01 | NA | NA | NA |
| Gainward | £399.48 | £411.24 | NA | NA | NA | £410.08 | NA | NA |
| Gigabyte | £399.49 | NA | NA | £434.72 | £419.01 | NA | NA | NA |
| Leadtek | £405.36 | £411.24 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| MSI | £398.33 | NA | NA | NA | £395.00 | £399.49 | NA | NA |
| OEM | NA | £352.49 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Palit | £387.73 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Point of View | NA | NA | £360.00 | NA | £380.00 | NA | NA | NA |
| XFX | £399.48 | NA | £421.08 | £434.72 | £425.00 | £422.94 | NA | NA |
| Zotac | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | £374.99 |
| Average (in stock) | £404.78 | £417.12 | NA | £430.77 | £380.00 | £410.08 | £407.14 | £374.99 |
| Average (all) | £402.23 | £409.28 | £390.54 | £430.77 | £407.60 | £410.84 | £407.14 | £374.99 |
Does this make the card more attractive than, say, a pair of cheaper GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB cards, or even a pair of GeForce 8800 GTs? Discuss in the forums.
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Comments (24)Stats: 0.106 seconds
I think DABS has lost its way with their prices, although they often have free delivery weekends on offer, so I guess thats a tenner saved if you want to wait the 3 days for delivery.
Brand however is important to me, so kudos again to Scan for stocking the most brands. BFG Tech for the win in my book, but Im not in the market for this card. (Two 800 GTS 512's give equal performance for less money) . The 9800GTX is released March 25th, and Im curious to see how that one will perform (and cost)
Ohhh yeah!
What does THAT mean?
Thanks, I forgot about CCL - I've included them now!
I remember when I got my 8800GTX WC, the price went up about a week after I got mine.
i predict we see more 9800Gx2 price drops, unless nVidia gets better drivers that enables this less than one week product to overtake one and half year old G80 GTX in SLi.
I really want to but one of these but I just cant justify spending $600 on a graphics card (no matter how good it is).
-Indybird
downgrade for 400 quid, awesome idea :p
nVidia never did. THe 7900/50 GX2 also had 2 PCBs, but the cores weren't facing eachother. This is IMO a better solution. The easiest though would be to have asingle PCB. But this makes the dual slot space (that the card will obviously take up anyway) far better used.
whigh brand for a 9800 gx2 would you reckon is the best??
thanx