Dad's new card- is he on drugs?

MumboJumbo · 21 Jan 2008 at 23:35

i see. I wonder what is in our old old old dos pc upstairs. I used to love playing hang man! lol. Not even windwos 3.1 and the printer was hugeeeeee. lol.

deshepherd · 22 Jan 2008 at 11:32

Perhaps they should just go back to calling them things like "venom", "napalm", "apocalypse", "annihilator", then you could simply order cards by your perception of the level of carnage

MHayes · 22 Jan 2008 at 12:43

So has he go the card yet or what, I am inteagued.

mks2005 · 22 Jan 2008 at 12:48

deshepherd said:
Perhaps they should just go back to calling them things like "venom", "napalm", "apocalypse", "annihilator", then you could simply order cards by your perception of the level of carnage

Lmao, nice!

GeForce SPINECRUSHER!

MumboJumbo · 22 Jan 2008 at 16:38

deshepherd said:
Perhaps they should just go back to calling them things like "venom", "napalm", "apocalypse", "annihilator", then you could simply order cards by your perception of the level of carnage

haha thats quite funny.

caithomas44 · 22 Jan 2008 at 16:47

cancel order or return and ask for your money back

then come and get advice on good parts from here

(that wont be about 20 times the RRP) lol

badbob · 22 Jan 2008 at 18:23

Ha ha ha found out it's this

ASUS Extreme AX800XT/2DHTV 256M Graphics Video Card

Paid £50 inc del. Second hand- no idea why he said worth £500. And the idiot was saying it's faster than my 1900XTX lol! Someone PLEASE find a 800XT versus 1900XTX (overclocked) benchmarks.. I want to see him squirm.

RobH · 22 Jan 2008 at 18:44

badbob said:
Someone PLEASE find a 800XT versus 1900XTX (overclocked) benchmarks.. I want to see him squirm.

http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_2007.html?modelx=33&model1=742&model2=727&chart=318

You can choose from 44 benchmarks.

Maybe it was worth £500 on the day of release on eBay but even £50 for it now seems a little steep.

MumboJumbo · 22 Jan 2008 at 18:52

did the bay exist then?

Mongy2130 · 22 Jan 2008 at 20:06

Dont think so x800 came out mid 04 i think ebay opened end of 2005ish

Ezyryder · 22 Jan 2008 at 20:34

bay opened end of 05? you on drugs? :S

1995, just checked on the Wiki

caithomas44 · 22 Jan 2008 at 20:59

Mongy2130 said:
Dont think so x800 came out mid 04 i think ebay opened end of 2005ish

very strange, i have been a member since 2000

and i know it was open a long time before then

Darg · 22 Jan 2008 at 21:46

ebay was one of the first big e-companys

Mongy2130 · 22 Jan 2008 at 21:49

ooops i seem too have lost 10 years :s

Streeteh · 22 Jan 2008 at 21:53

Ebay started out as a website for people to trade novelty pez dispensers, little fact not many people know.

x800 for £50? Your dad got ripped off.

[EDIT] oh no i'm wrong, the first thing sold was a broken lazer pointer - still an interesting fact not many people know

Phil99 · 22 Jan 2008 at 22:13

badbob said:
Ha ha ha found out it's this

ASUS Extreme AX800XT/2DHTV 256M Graphics Video Card

Paid £50 inc del. Second hand- no idea why he said worth £500. And the idiot was saying it's faster than my 1900XTX lol! Someone PLEASE find a 800XT versus 1900XTX (overclocked) benchmarks.. I want to see him squirm.

I had one of those. Good card a couple of years back but he paid over the odds for one nowadays. Will run games like BF2 very nicely though.

badbob · 22 Jan 2008 at 22:32

Streeteh said:
x800 for £50? Your dad got ripped off.

Not by much, probably £20 higher than normal. At least he didn't pay £500!

Streeteh · 22 Jan 2008 at 22:45

badbob said:
Not by much, probably £20 higher than normal. At least he didn't pay £500!

Tis still 40% more than he SHOULD have payed

/end finickity

MumboJumbo · 22 Jan 2008 at 23:08

mmm finickity... thats a long word. Best go look that one up.

:EDIT:

Just relised what you ment after posting that lol. Didnt know it was spelt like that, then again i only resently learnt calm has an L in it... it does have an L in it right? lol.