The GT300/Fermi Thread - Part 2!

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but this is a new card and you can be sure it's going to be priced accordingly.

well thats contradicting... new cards always cost more than the competition even if they are slower... theres always a 10%+ tax for every piece of hardware that is new...

Of course, with low availability there'll be inevitable price gauging but the original price will be between $300 and $400.

well, 399$ is between 300 and 400, so yes, what your saying is not entirely untrue
but just think about it... there will be enough people willing to spend 400$ for it and nvidia has very few cards... why should they set the msrp that much below the expected demand based price? their aibs would barely make any money on the cards, especially considering the low volume, and the etailers and retailers would make a fortune on the cards by selling them for msrp+50-100$... why would nvidia do this? nvidia sales guys are brilliant! just look at how well they have done in the past! they wont do something like this...

the 470 will only go for 350$ if the 5870 drops to 350$ as well or even lower... but i dont think that will happen... it would be ati shooting themselves in the foot, cutting their wins on millions of cards for some few thousand cards nvidia drip feeds the market...