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Originally Posted by lordikon
Doesn't matter how they got the price, if you cannot get accurate information then don't release a chart like this for a comparison that you want the community to base any decisions on. When you release comparisons like this you should back it up with good information, or it isn't entirely credible.
That is just my take on it. If we wanted to use a guide like this to make a price/performance ratio, we'd be screwed. No point in even showing prices if you know they might be wrong.
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The prices are spot-on for a SPECIFIC website. If you used Newegg or any other source, the prices would be different. But you'd still have anomolies on newegg. Older hardware like the 8800GTS is going back up in price because hardly anyone sells it, so it is rare. If you used newegg, you might not see a high-priced 8800GTS, but you'd see other items that were priced too high or too low depending on newegg's current stock and pricing policies.
There's no "correct" price for Tom's Hardware to put on the chart. The only correct price would be MSRP, but that would be completely irrelevant to current real-world prices.
If TH went and got the cheapest price they could find each of the items for on the interwebz, they would get prices from illegitimate websites artificially lowering the prices.
I think the best they could do is take several major, well-known retailers, and compare prices between them, and use the lowest price as the stated price on the chart.
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