$245 is simple.
Heck if you would have just said $250 then I would have been right saying around $300
If one would just round to the hundredths
Well, I did pay $11 tax too, so you are officially right
Even if you can't swing this deal like I did for $199 -- plus tax
-- it's still probably a matter of time before another one comes in at that price point. Maybe 2 months? I imagine ATI has to bring the 850xt AGP price down too, they can't keep overcharging for the AGP interface now that they no longer have a monopoly on the upper end. The 7800 has already come down a lot from it's $400 launch in early Feb. nVidia & it's downmarket distributers wisely realized people'ld never pay that, that'd be almost enough to upgrade to a good PCI-E mb+card instead. Down towards $200 the 7800gs actually starts looking good onthe price/performance curve. Especially if you're like me & have a quiet PC -- the 7800gs is really a 7800 PCI-E card running through a PCIE->AGP bridge, and with somepipelines shut off, etc. because of lower power delivery through AGP slot. But as a consequence the card runs cooler (and so quieter) too.