Wow!! Major price drop!

Jas28 · 07-03-08, 09:23 PM

MSI GTX260: $299

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127361

MSI GTX280: $499

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127360

Thats an AMAZING price drop in 1 day. Say 'Thanks ATi!'

Uberpwnage · 07-03-08, 09:27 PM

Too bad it's not EVGA, I dont like mixing vendors, good sign though

shabby · 07-03-08, 09:46 PM

Wow the msi gtx280 is $460 after rebate... i'd be pissed if i paid $650 for that during launch day. This is by far the fastest price drop i've ever seen for a new gpu.
It seems like the price drop goes hand in hand with nvidia's stock price

SH64 · 07-03-08, 09:48 PM

My source is telling me that E-VGA will lower their prices soon .. its a matter of week or 2

**Destroy** · 07-03-08, 09:50 PM

Really tempted at $460 but the 4870X2 is right around the corner(end of July) and feel I should wait for benchies of that for a single card solution.

Zapablast05 · 07-03-08, 09:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Uberpwnage

Too bad it's not EVGA, I dont like mixing vendors, good sign though

+1

I would get it if it was EVGA.

CaptNKILL · 07-03-08, 10:00 PM

Holy crap, those prices are MUCH lower than expected.

They said they were dropping the 280 by $90 and the 260 by $40. They dropped the both by over $100.

Bman212121 · 07-03-08, 10:02 PM

The Evga one is $539, which is about the $90 drop the other thread stated. Put the 40MIR on that baby and I'll be damn temped.

Uberpwnage · 07-03-08, 10:04 PM

MSI usually has low prices (not to say the cards are bad, I wouldn't know), I remember they used to have one of the highest clocked 8800 Ultras (the one SH64 has) for less then most of the stock cards from other brands. Very tempting back in the day...

07-03-08, 10:05 PM

Wow. Looks like I should have waited.

$n][pErMan · 07-03-08, 10:17 PM

Glad I waited... now waiting for eVGA to come down in price and I will be sold on that GTX280

LORD-eX-Bu · 07-03-08, 10:30 PM

probably has something to do with the dive that nvidia shares have taken recently.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/02/tech...ion=2008070218

Article says 20% but now shares are down about 30%

07-03-08, 09:23 PM	#1
Jas28 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 88	Wow!! Major price drop! MSI GTX260: $299 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127361 MSI GTX280: $499 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127360 Thats an AMAZING price drop in 1 day. Say 'Thanks ATi!' __________________ Intel Core i7 860 @3.85GHz w/ Corsair H50 MSI P55-CD53 4Gb A-DATA DDR3 1600 EVGA GeForce GTX 470 Superclocked 1280MB GDDR5 SoundBlaster X-Fi XtremeMusic Windows 7 64-Bit

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07-03-08, 10:02 PM	#8
Bman212121 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 6,726	Re: Wow!! Major price drop! The Evga one is $539, which is about the $90 drop the other thread stated. Put the 40MIR on that baby and I'll be damn temped.

07-03-08, 10:04 PM	#9
Uberpwnage Registered User Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 898	Re: Wow!! Major price drop! MSI usually has low prices (not to say the cards are bad, I wouldn't know), I remember they used to have one of the highest clocked 8800 Ultras (the one SH64 has) for less then most of the stock cards from other brands. Very tempting back in the day... __________________ Core i7 980x @ 4.4GHz - EK Supreme HF - BlackIce GTX 360 - MCP655 - Rampage II Extreme BIOS 1639 - EVGA GTX 480 SLI - Corsair Dominator 3x2GB DDR3 1600 2 x 1TB Samsung F1 RAID 0 - Plextor PX-880SA DVD Burner - Dell 3008WFP - Silverstone Zeus 1200w PSU - Lian Li PC-P80 - Razer Mamba - Logitech G15 v2 Windows 7 x64, 3DMark06:30000, 3DMark Vantage: P38000 Eurocom M860TU: X9100 - 9800M GT - 2x2GB OCZ DDR3 1333 - 320GB 7200rpm - 15.4in 1920x1200

07-03-08, 10:05 PM	#10
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