when the perfect time to buy new video card?

[rob3rtz]

i heard that the ATI 9700 will come out soon..
and that card is really great that can beat ti4600..

so i think nvidia will cut their price..
so when is the perfect time to buy?..

[rob3rtz]

and i have around 150 bucks to get new video card..

what card i should get..(maybe i'll overclock a little bit.. )
( not pro in overclocking video card..)
thx

[illbreakit]

About a week after I buy one LOL. Then it will come down in price, thats what happened with my 8500. A week later, it waas 130 cheaper.

But really, things change so much that I am unsure when, if any time is a good time.

[snyper1982]

it all depends on your prefrence, price or performance. you can always play the waiting game. nvidia will also be releasing a new card come december, then ati will drop the price on their 9700, i would say that would probably be the best bet right there. but then ati will also be releasing a new card, the 10000, so nvidia might drop their prices, you never know, i would just say get a 4200 right now and be happy, or wait for the nv30 and buy the 9700, either way you will be happy. the 4200 is a great card.

[rivercom9]

I would say that patience is a great virtue. Hold on for as long as you can (I know how hard it is to fight those "I MUST BUY THIS" urges) but it will save you a lot of money if you hold out as long as possible. But if you really need one now, I would say wait for things to happen after the release of the R300 and we hopefully should see NVidia lower prices a bit. But remember, if you dont really need it now, dont get one until you really need one.

[BrainFood]

I just bought an eVGA ti4400 and I love it, it does everything I could ask of it and more so it is good enough for me and it wasnt an arm and a damn leg either! But it is all preference

[rob3rtz]

thx.. maybe i'll buy at the end of september
hopefully the price of ti 4200 or ti4400 is a lot cheaper at that time...

still considering ti4200 or 4400??..
any suggestion?

[rivercom9]

Maybe a ti4200 that has been getting good OCs so that you can get it up to 4600 speeds. More speed for free.

[rob3rtz]

thx..will follow your suggestion

[Demont]

ehh after the r300 comes out i would look into the ti4400 or ti4600 as they will be quite affordable soon i should think. those give you a lot more headroom than the ti4200

[rivercom9]

I meant look for a 4200 sometime in sept, since i think thats when he will spend his hard earned money. I just got myself a Geforce3 ti500 for about $100 and it should be sufficient until the NV30 is a bit cheaper or I can get a $150 Ti4600.

[h20link]

basically, IMHO buying a video card is like paying to get kicked in the nuts.

you're going to spend some cash for the latest and greatest and as soon as you do:

A) the price will drop significantly moments after you click that "submit" button

and

B) both Nvidia and ATI will call dueling press conferences to announce "stunning innovations" on soon-to-be-released cards that render the card you just bought, but haven't even received yet obsolete.....causing the aforementioned drop in prices.

.....you should also know that the difference between your now "obsolete" card (worth at this point, about $85 instead of the $200 you paid) and this new, $400 card, will for all intents and purposes, be negligible because you can't detect that extra 2 frames per second, and since you're red-green colorblind, pixel shaders mean nothing to you.

anyways, this post is intended to be funny but that doesn't mean it's any less true. can ya tell I'm a bit fed up with the whole ridiculous video card market right now?

[PhobMX]

i say that sukc all the power you can from your current video card, and when its really useless get a new one for $200 tops. Ore either wait for new features to come, r9700 now is cool, but too expensive, and nv30 also looks promising. Myself ive just got an ati r8500le for $85 and will keep it until either r10k ir nv30 drop their prices to $200

[richardwalker73]

I think there is never a good time to buy hardware. You can always hang on for the next greatest thing, ad infinitum.
I bought a GF4 Ti4400 for £269.00 the DAY it came to the UK because I thought it would a) take some beating b) last a while and c) be a good investment given the top titles that are around the corner. Or should I say round the corner far away and gone for a kibbutz somewhere.
I say this because I am ****ed off that a card I spent a fortune on while still good is now under £180 (a mere 3 months on) and there still isn’t any of the games we where promised to coincide with the "next gen" cards.
We are slap dab in the middle of the worst games drought I can remember. With loads of exiting titles on the horizon that keep getting pushed further and further back.
They hold these titles back to improve them , great, but what are we going to have to be running to see them in their full glory? When they arrive.
We truly are chasing a hardware carrot at the moment and the only real benefit we can see is by consoling our bruised wallets with running 3D Mark to see what we get.
Yes I am bitter about the whole thing and you know what? You will never see this sort of shortage of titles on a console. Why? Because they know it takes software to keep the wheels turning.
Every console has to have a flagship title in order for it to really sell. What I am seeing here is the reverse. We are spending fortune on hardware and there is no "flagship" title to make it a "must have".
All of the Dooms and UT and Creed etc etc are m-o-n-t-h-s away, and by then judging by what I am seeing we will need a Radeon 9700 or an NV30 to appreciate them fully.
I just read this and I sound bitter.... You bet I am. We seem to have been duped into spending to appreciate software that is a long way off.
Don’t get me wrong. I am all for improvements and I await new things with excitement and anticipation but I just wish there was some sort of equilibrium to it all.
:confused:

[WeaponX]

I'm waitin for Doom3 to actually come out first. I have a Geforce2, it works find for all games at the moment. Even UT2k3 will run fine(requires a TNT2). So just wait till Doom3 actually comes out and then decide what you should get.