Post graphic card price in your city

[Vulcan]

Hey Aces, thanks for marshalling info on the gfx cards.

Rashi Peripherals and Xserve India also seem to deal with gfx cards. Rashi deals with Asus (both ATI and nVidia I gather) and Xserve (Bangalore based I believe) with Aeolus/nvidia. Aeolus does seem to get a fair mention in the online resellers in the States, but unlike with Rashi, I've not personally bought anything from Xserve. Xserve also appears to sell the 6800 gfx cards and, if not for anything else, you could get an idea of their 6800 prices for comparing with XFX. The Xserve website is here:

http://www.xserves.com/pnc/vga_solutions.html

I'm wondering if TA could use their official muscle power to get a price sheet from these resellers, and others such as those, and post them here ! Sure would keep them on their toes and would bring them fair publicity in return. But then, that would be asking for too much from these companies I guess, eh ?

ps: Xserve also claims to sell AOpen power supplies which I was interested in. But didn't have much success in reaching them on phone.

[Vulcan]

Thanks Vulcan. Most of these sellers really seem disinterested most of the time. Only Rashi and Mediatech seem helpful. Any idea how much Rashi sells their 6800 GT and Ultra for?

Haven't checked with Rashi yet ! BTW, the models are:
V9999/VS/128 6800GT 128MB
V9999Ultra/TVD/256 6800U 256MB

If I get to do it next week, will post them here.

[Daviescool]

Ok Asus means really high prices maybe in the region of 38k for the ultra and 30k for the vanilla 6800. Overpriced. Someone was sayin that the x800 xt from asus cost 43+ somewhere near 47k. INSANE

[LordDaemon]

Bangalore (Prices are approximate, give or take 500 bucks):
1)Gainward FX 5600 Ultra 256MB - Rs.8000/-
Supply problems with this card. In fact stargazer owned one for a coupla weeks until some artifacts started showing up at hi settings and now there aren't any replacements available to exchange it! Thats why he's shopping for an ATI.
2)XFX FX 5700LE - Rs.7200
3)XFX FX 5200 128MB - Rs.3000
4)Powercolor ATI 9600 Pro 128MB - Rs.10000
5)Powercolor ATI 9800 Pro 128MB 128 bit - Rs.15000

Gigabyte ATI 9600/9800 Pro is supposedly available here. Stargazer will have a post as soon as we get any solid info. PM stargazer or myself if you're interested in the cards above.

[Prince]

GeForce 6600 GT
500 MHz
4000 MTexels/s
128-bits
GDDR3
500 MHz
16.00 GB/s
VS & PS = 3.0 (now thats an advantage)
Pixel Pipelines- 8
Vertex Pipelines- 3

Vs


Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
380 MHz
3040 MTexels/s
256-bits
DDR
340 MHz
21.76 GB/s
PS & VS = 2.0
Pixel Pipelines - 8
Vertex Pipelines - 4

I am little surprised though that 6600GT beated 9800pro/xt in every departments. And thanks chaos for telling me..i am using 9800pro and for god sake never thought that it got 4 vertex units, i always thought its 2 ....and funny thing is i daily used AIDA32 to see voltage values never bothered clickin on GPU....lol..thanks anyway.

[Chaos]

GeForce 6600 GT
500 MHz
4000 MTexels/s
128-bits
GDDR3
500 MHz
16.00 GB/s
VS & PS = 3.0 (now thats an advantage)
Pixel Pipelines- 8
Vertex Pipelines- 3

Vs


Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
380 MHz
3040 MTexels/s
256-bits
DDR
340 MHz
21.76 GB/s
PS & VS = 2.0
Pixel Pipelines - 8
Vertex Pipelines - 4

I am little surprised though that 6600GT beated 9800pro/xt in every departments. And thanks chaos for telling me..i am using 9800pro and for god sake never thought that it got 4 vertex units, i always thought its 2 ....and funny thing is i daily used AIDA32 to see voltage values never bothered clickin on GPU....lol..thanks anyway.

Well the big reason why the 6600 is faster is cos the NV4X architecture is very efficient. Clock to clock, the 400MHz NV4X matches a 500MHz R4XX(which is nearly the same arch as R3XX). So a 500MHz 8 pipe NV4X part will obviously own a 380MHz 8 pipe R3XX. But then the 6600GT is not a true 8x1 part. When doing raster ops, it behaves more like a 4x2. Hence its not that much faster. Also it has much more pixel shader power than the 9800 and hence will run newer games better. The 6600GT is rather bandwidth starved though. I'm amazed at what NV is pulling off with such meagre amount of available memory bandwidth.

[stalkersoftware]

But is this 6600GT the AGP version?? If it is so, then at 14.5k its way better than getting a 9800 Pro (even the 256-bit one) here Plus the 3-yr warranty is icing on the cake

Yes there are 6600GT AGP versions. They are out and they are pretty good. Much better than any ATI 9xxx series.
Running at 1000mhz it provides exactly half the mem bandthwidth of a 6800GT 16GB!



http://www.bfgtech.com/6600GT.html

[TechHead]

It's around 210-225$ for the AGP 6600GTs @ The Egg, pretty much the same price as the 9800Pro. So, 6600GT@14800 for the AGP version is worth it! BTW, AT has a review up of the 6600GT AGP, and it whups the 9800Pro's arse!
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2277

[stargazer]

Hey, this 6600 GT AGP is for 14.8 k, then am buying it if my 6800 somehow fails to arrive ... are you absouletly sure? can u give me the contact details?

Kukreja Electronics
Highpoint 4, Palace Road.
Ph:
080-2226-1026
080-2226-2557

[stargazer]

By the way, for those intrested in Club3d cards in Mumbai. Contact Mr. Bhatia - 09821035100. He said the the 9800 pro was 15K.
In Bangalore for Powercolor Cards contact

M/s GreatWorld
Mr. Datta
mob: 09845065987

305a, annexe block, brigade mm, kr rd, b'lore 82

[LordDaemon]

Stargazer has been shopping for a new card for a month now, since his 5600Ultra conked. Our dealer offered him a 6600 GT AGP for 13.5 k. So he buys it. Only thing, when the card arrives from Bombay, its a PCI-X.

So much for the bad luck.

Now, he goes today to give our dealer hell. The dude come right back with a XFX 6800 GT 128 MB for.... 15.5k. Yeah, thats right, no typo there - 15.5k So Stargazer is busy installing now. I'm sure he'll post as soon as hes able. Meanwhile, the rest of us can just do what the Onida ad says.

[funkymonkey]

Mediatech prices are useless.
They are never accurate. They say Powercolor X800XT @ 33K and thats stock price exclusive of Octroi and sales tax.
they also quoted 27K for 6800GT golden sample. It turns out you actiually end up paying 30990( still not available and no stock.
Those are highly misleading prices.
At the moment in Mumbai XFX 6800GT is around 27.5K. ( Out of stock from rashi and mediatech. Not expected any time soon, I got the last piece they had. It was replacement for my faulty XFX 6800GT.)
ASUS AX800 pro 31.5K
Powercolor X800XT PCI-express 33K exclusive of any taxes. So probably will end up at 35-36K.

[funkymonkey]

Well i bought XFX for my secont PC. And it gave problems the day it came. PC wont boot at all.
I cleared CMOS and it boted. but gave curruption all over the screen.
So i returned it. Now i got cool Blue PCB version. Newer model. Looks smashing and has a metal strip on top to hold the card.
And yesh it took just 2 days to get replacement as my card was DOA. otherwise it takes weeks to get replacement.
Anyway i havent installed this replacement card. I am gona try and sell it and get the PCI express version of 6800GT and upgrade my both systems.

[stargazer]

Well i bought XFX for my secont PC. And it gave problems the day it came. PC wont boot at all.
I cleared CMOS and it boted. but gave curruption all over the screen.
So i returned it. Now i got cool Blue PCB version. Newer model. Looks smashing and has a metal strip on top to hold the card.
And yesh it took just 2 days to get replacement as my card was DOA. otherwise it takes weeks to get replacement.
Anyway i havent installed this replacement card. I am gona try and sell it and get the PCI express version of 6800GT and upgrade my both systems.

I had similar probs and the card was a 6800 vanilla not a GT. And it wasn't from Rashi. Some other guy. Anyhow no high end card right now. running on a Geforce 2 MX 400 .

Hopefully will have anew card next month. supposedly prices will fall coz the X800 is coming then and it's the holiday season.

[beyondthegraceofgod]

I need a card for around 5-6k.
Its actually for the p4 with 845 mobo tat my younger bro uses so i dunn wanna spend high. the main criteria is it shud run Medal of honor: PA at resonable good rate.

Also i'ed be using the card on the 845 itself so tat means on a 4x agp slot.I just want it to give optimal performance on the new games with so copromises here and there.

Wuz locked on the Fx5700 but the Hl2 issue make me have 2nd thoughts so i am lookin for 9550/9660 i dunn kno much abtt the manufacturers and models availble so plz suggest me a better cheaper alternative.Its his hday on 8the dec so guys plz help fast

Hey blade which shops in lammi do u suggest.I generally try computer selection or PnP