$254 silent X800XL card, $403 DVD camcorder bargains outed

WE'RE TRYING to convince resellers in this column to offer freebies or additional discounts to our readers. If you do buy from any of the guys listed here, just tell them that you come from theinquirer's daily buy column. And, resellers or readers alike, if you have some hot and spicy deals. Send me a line.

Amazon has this deal about the Pixo Corion C700 17-inch LCD Monitor with speakers on sale for only $149.95 after $70 mail in rebate. It comes with free Supersaver shipping. Yes, it is probably the cheapest monitor around and you would do yourself a favour and buy two instead of a single 19-inch TFT. It is compatible with MAC and PC, has 1W stereo speakers. Cheap and dirty, just like we like them. Not far way, they have an Averatec AV3270-EE1 laptop, an even better deal than the one we looked at some days back from Geeks. This one features the Mobile Sempron 2800+ CPU, comes with 512MB memory, a large 60GB HDD, a DVD+/-RW drive and most importantly, a 12.1-inch monitor. At $857.99 after MIB, it includes WiFi, MS Works and a battery life of around 150 minutes. Powered by a VIA chipset with integrated video controller. PC Mag even has a 4.5/5 rating for it. Can't be that bad. Tweeter sells a Sony DCRDVD101 DVD handycam Camcorder for only $428 which can be slashed to $403 with a $25 rebate from Goodguys.com. Now that is damn cheap for a DVD-r camcorder, especially one from Sony. It has a large Hybrid Swivel screen, a 10x Optical zoom from Carl Zeiss coupled with a Super NightShot plus infrared system. Its CCD is a 1.0MP Advanced HAD which produces great details. It can also capture stills and be used as a mini external DVD writer thanks to its USB2.0 interface. Dell USA is flogging the Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop for only $582 after a 3% cash back rebate from Fatwallet. It is powered by an Intel Celeron M 360 - 1.4GHz, 1MB cache, 400MHz FSB and has 256MB memory, Windows XP HE, a one year standard warranty, a 14-inch XGA screen, a DVD/CDRW Combo, 40GB HDD plus a free Dell Color Printer 720. You also get as default an Internal modem and Network card. Newegg has the cheapest X800XL cards in the galaxy. The Rosewill X800XL RX8XL-256PX videocard is the one I'm talking about. It has a memory/core speed of 980/400MHz respectively. With HDTV, Svideo, DSub and DVI, it sure packs a lot for its price at only $269.99. Ideal for a budget minded gamer: this is the next FX5900XT. Can overclock to very high speeds. Use the following Promo Code CNETHELP1. It doesn't work for me just because I might be in the UK.

This should decrease the price to $259.99. The other card that caught my eye was the Gigabyte RX80L256V which has been reviewed some time back by Techreport. It is a silent X800XL with a passive cooler. It is a refurbished card and as such costs an incredible $254.40, almost too low to be true. µ