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Who said prices had gone up for new tech? :)
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I just had a peruse of old prices of Graphics cards and fondly remember the 8800GTX.
£400 back in Jan of 2007...We have always been paying through the nose for our shiny new toys
I still have this card. haha!
I remember the first build I did
I used a pair of GTX 295s which I thought were a bit expensive @ £375 each. With hindsight compared to some of the cards mentioned above it was quite cheap.
I was quite pleased with my GTX 295s for a short period untill AMD launched their Directx 11 cards a few weeks later.
The build I mentioned above was a bit of a disaster in the long run.
The GTX 295s - obsolete after a few weeks.
The motherboard - developed numerous problems. (asus p6t deluxe v2)
The memory performed badly.
Every SSD I put in the build died. (OCZ need I say more).
The only bit I still have is the i7 975 CPU which has outlasted everything else and is still going strong in another build.
Still I learned a lot.
I used a pair of GTX 295s which I thought were a bit expensive @ £375 each. With hindsight compared to some of the cards mentioned above it was quite cheap.
I was quite pleased with my GTX 295s for a short period untill AMD launched their Directx 11 cards a few weeks later.
The build I mentioned above was a bit of a disaster in the long run.
The GTX 295s - obsolete after a few weeks.
The motherboard - developed numerous problems. (asus p6t deluxe v2)
The memory performed badly.
Every SSD I put in the build died. (OCZ need I say more).
The only bit I still have is the i7 975 CPU which has outlasted everything else and is still going strong in another build.
Still I learned a lot.
Yup, I made a fair bit of cash buying and selling a couple of those on Ebay!
Radeon 9700
Yup, this was the first true leap in GPU's as we know them. 3DFX was also a leap, but in a technical sense. The 9700 was a pure performance beast that demolished everything else out at the time.
No chance of relying on the warranty now though gregster 
I think a lot of people have been saying this about the current gen because it is said that the 670/680 architecture was supposed to be the basis for nvidia's mid-range card, yet it performed so well they priced it into the top bracket and didn't make the "top end" version.
I think a lot of people have been saying this about the current gen because it is said that the 670/680 architecture was supposed to be the basis for nvidia's mid-range card, yet it performed so well they priced it into the top bracket and didn't make the "top end" version.
No chance of relying on the warranty now though gregster
If it goes wrong, I will send it to KFA2
That was the first big leap though
heh - I'm still using an 8800GT!!!
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I think rather than the prices, we should make a seperate thread on comparing how much performance increase has gone downhill after the HD5000 series
No chance of relying on the warranty now though gregster
I think a lot of people have been saying this about the current gen because it is said that the 670/680 architecture was supposed to be the basis for nvidia's mid-range card, yet it performed so well they priced it into the top bracket and didn't make the "top end" version.
I've gotta say, I've never bought in to that theory.
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The games haven't progressed much either.I think rather than the prices, we should make a seperate thread on comparing how much performance increase has gone downhill after the HD5000 series
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I think rather than the prices, we should make a seperate thread on comparing how much performance increase has gone downhill after the HD5000 series
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Catalyst_12.11_Performance/23.html
I don't think its as bad as you think. Check out the link and note how close the 7970ghz ed is to the gtx590. I think its around the same kind of gap there was between the 5870 and gtx295. Link below for 5870 results.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/Radeon_HD_5870/30.html
I think it looked bad at release but i am sure i seen a graph showing that the 7970 has gotten 30% faster since release.
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Even with the improved driver, the fact remains it taken more than twice the time to get the same amount of performance improvement comparing to the pass...the amount of 80-100% increase that was moving from one gen to the next now takes two gen (and if taking time it took for a good driver to finally roll out into account, it is 2 gen plus 11 months to be exact...)
Base purely on the point that (80-100% increase on 1 year in the pass vs current 80-100% increase over 2 years~ 2 years and 10 months on the top-end single GPU card), I don't think saying "performance increase has gone downhill" is an understatement.
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