E-Tail Watch: GTX 470 is $350, GTX 480 is $500, OC models available

Known US e-tailer published prices of the upcoming GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 cards from ASUS, EVGA and Palit. Interesting note is that EVGA will have Superclocked models from Day One of retail/e-tail availability, which looks to be set for the week starting April 12, 2010 – according to our sources, first GTX 470 and GTX 480 boards will appear in APAC region – Japan, Hong Kong and Taipei are our usual suspects – in the week starting April 5th, followed by Europe and North America the week after.

Mwave.com is not the first e-tailer that leaked the prices and images of upcoming GeForce boards, but is the first with what we assume to be realistic prices for the parts. According to Mwave.com, the price for stock-clocked GTX 470 from Asus and Palit is the same, $349.99, while EVGA’s factory overclocked board goes for $379.99. No clocks were disclosed, though.

When it comes to GTX 480, all three vendors have the same $499.99 price for the regular clocked card, while EVGA’s 015-P3-1482-AR “Superclocked” board goes for $529.99. Just as GTX 470, EVGA did not disclose the custom clocks on its GTX 480 board. We think that the cause for that is the fact that no vendors actually have more than dozen boards in their QA labs, with tens of thousands of boards being built as we speak.

In any case, all should be revealed today at 4PM Pacific, 7PM Eastern, 23:00 UTC or Midnight in Europe / 5AM China Standard Time on 27th.

Original Author: Theo Valich

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