Radeon X1900 GT already up for sale

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"Despite the rumored May 9 release date, French site PC INpact has already spotted two retailers selling ATI's Radeon X1900 GT (http://www.pcinpact.com/actu/news/28443-Les-Radeon-X1900GT-dores-et-deja-referencees.htm) (translate here (http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=fr_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcinpact.com%2Factu%2Fnews%2F 28443-Les-Radeon-X1900GT-dores-et-deja-referencees.htm)). Indeed, an ATI-made flavor of the card is listed on Dell (http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?sku=A0641927&cs=04&c=us&l=en) and AxionTech (http://www.axiontech.com/prdt.php?item=75510&shopping), and we were also able to find a X1900 GT selling at Directron (http://www.directron.com/atix1900gt256.html). Prices vary from $370 to 379, with availability marked as 1-2 weeks, 24 hours, and "first week of May" for Dell, AxionTech, and Directron, respectively. The Inquirer also reports that one of its readers has already purchased an X1900 GT (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31400) at Best Buy, although it isn't specified how much the card cost. While it's good to see a new ATI product showing up so promptly, even the lowest current price, $370, is rather high considering the X1900 GT is supposedly designed to compete (http://www.techreport.com/onearticle.x/9855) against NVIDIA's GeForce 7900 GT. Since the 7900 GT currently sells for as low as $299 (http://techreport.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=17662935), the new Radeon's prices will need to drop if ATI hopes to set the two cards against each other. "

http://www.techreport.com/onearticle.x/9893