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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 53605

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Here's some stuff: The Increasing Cost of Gaming -  Tom Manelli of PCWorld asks the question "Would you pay $600 for a video card?" The Pain With Patches - The folks over

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xxxx · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:04 pm Post subject:

Well, I might be a idiot to buy into ATI again, but I got a X800 XL just shy of $200 Cdn. The day I spend $600 is the day I got see a shrink. As far as I'm concerned nVidia and ATI can blow me if they think I'm stupid enough to pay that kind of cost, especially when I know the cards cost a mere $100 if that to slap together. But I do get a good laugh when someone goes around gloating they did pay $600 for their video card.. Raise your index finger, at the same time, stretch ur thumb out to the side and put it on ur forehead. If you did it right, it's a L for Loser. You got a strange set of priorities to wager $600 for a video card to play games, imo.

Genoism · Elite Member Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 339

be happy that there are people out there who have money to spend on those cards cuz if they didn't nvidia and ati would be out of business. If they didn't release the cards at that cost then people would do the same thing they do now, wait till its cheaper. So they purposely jack up the price high enough so that people will think that the standard is $200ish for a good card. Luckly they dont lower the prices until they find games that will no longer run at full settings and etc.