<p><font size="2">Yesterday saw the introduction of NVIDIA&rsquo;s GeForce 9 series of GPUs, starting with the GeForce 9600 GT. Carrying a MSRP of $169 - $189, the GeForce 9600 GT was designed to fill a void in NVIDIA&rsquo;s product lineup. The GeForce 8600, NVIDIA&rsquo;s original sub-$200 competitor was being sorely beaten by AMD&rsquo;s Radeon HD 3850. The GeForce 9600 GT was introduced to rectify the situation.</font></p> <p><font size="2">Had the world remained the same, the GeForce 9600 GT would have competed with and done a good job of destroying the Radeon HD 3850. However, AMD didn&rsquo;t remain still and quietly reduced the prices of its Radeon HD 3800 series GPUs in the channel. The GeForce 9600 GT no longer was a competitor of the Radeon HD 3850, but rather up against the 3870.</font></p> <p><font size="2">A 256MB Radeon HD 3850 will set you back around $150, while the 512MB models are $170 parts. Stock clocked GeForce 9600 GTs are doing a good job of hovering right at $179.99, while factory overclocked cards will set you back closer to $200. The Radeon HD 3870 has now dropped to below $200 and we even found one for about the same price as a 9600 GT</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3235"><font size="2">Read more... </font></a></p>