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What’s the most you would pay for a flagship card?

AiiR said:
Right now, for a brand new card £500.

Second hand, about £300.

It used to be £250, but I'm happy paying extra for the next gen as cards last longer now than they used to. So £500 will be my limit for a decent upgrade over a 980ti. If not, I'll be waiting until an option becomes available or this dies.
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About the same for me. I remember buying a 1900XT years ago, that was pushing it for me at the time at circa £300. Ideally sub £400-450 though, beyond that is specialist in my eyes.

I think once you start going over £500, it gets to the point you're pushing people to consoles, and thats a stupid decision for the hardware manufacturers, as it will hurt them in the long run.

BUT I'm not surprised as Nvidia and AMD have pretty much killed SLI/Crossfire so they've got to sell uber expensive cards now for enthusiasts to make the same money as they used to be able to by selling 2-4 high end cards retailing for £300-500 each.
 
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For a true flagship product, around £1000 is my limit, sadly that puts actual flagship cards out of my reach, even with its recent price drop, the titanV is more than double my max budget.

Hopefully next gen flagship cards stay below a grand!
 
Titan V is more specialist than flagship, if that makes sense? It's intended for more professional use but can be used for gaming too. Thinking about it, I suppose it is still the flagship, as it's the best at everything, ie, faster than Titan XP at gaming.

Still kind of think the Titan X is the flagship gaming card tho :P
 
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£680.

It sickens me as the number would have once been £350.

Need a new monitor first though, a decent one is almost a grand these days, and it's still a lottery.

PC equipment still has longevity imo. My processor is 4 generations old and still excellent, and my (now single 980) still powers through on all games at 1200p.
 
Well I Paid £1200 for the Titan pascal. Then spent 150 on top of that to cool it right!!! I play at 1440p and atm have no intentions of upgrading my monitor. The only real games I play that warrant the gpu I have is total war warhammer 2 which I have played over 400hrs and some Star Wars battle front 2 and assassins creed origins.. After these games I play wow which sure as hell does not need this gpu.

Unless a lot of great new titles appear that will really benefit from a new gpu. I am sticking with what I have for a good while yet. As to cost well that for me is down to usages. When I played warhammer as a kid I spent over £2000 on models. That was a hell of a lot of cash in the late 1990s.
I guess what you are willing to pay all depends on what your happy for value of money/usage. I know people that spend £2000+ on golf course fees and play may be eight times a year.

For me £1500 is the absolute max I would pay and only if I thought it would run games for two years on great settings . As I said though I have used that gpu to the fullest for over 900hrs+ for 18 months. So on a daily basis that’s not bad value for cash for me.
 
£350. Which is why I'm never going to own a top-end card ever again.

The value proposition is normally somewhere lower down the line-up.
 
Max is £400 ish and that's for a top tier card. Will go 2ndh if necessary but will never go above that price. Even then I think I paid little too much considering I previously paid £200 ish for a 290 which played everything maxed out at 1080p. Yea I know 1080 is for higher res....but double the price certainly does not give double the performance or quality. Gpu industry bit of a crapshoot atm unfortunately ately...
 
£749.00 as that's what I paid for the Strix 1080 Ti via the recent OCUK offer. I now wish I had bought an EVGA Hybrid at launch for similar money. My 980 Ti EVGA Hybrid was ~£480 though I got that in the US so it was cheaper than RRP.

Prior to that I had been paying around £200-300 for the next level down in the hierarchy so think HD7850 or 970 though I actually went SLI with two of those which led to me upping my spend to a single 980 Ti.

If the prices keep increasing as nVidia have hinted then likely my 980 Ti will likely sell for close to my purchase price!
 
Trying to justify £850-£1000 for one card is utter tosh. Nvidia are laughing at you. Literally rubbing their little hands together and laughing at you with contempt.

£400 max. Even that is daft.
 
$500 Australian is my limit, plus GST or VAT in your world.

I can afford to buy the highest but I don't need it and I won't pay it on principle.
 
fastwunz said:
Trying to justify £850-£1000 for one card is utter tosh. Nvidia are laughing at you. Literally rubbing their little hands together and laughing at you with contempt.

£400 max. Even that is daft.
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I hate those kind of statements :). Depends though how much pleasure you get from it?
IMO the 10 series has been way ahead, I think many have been surprised with the performance on offer especially with the power usage taken into account and vs the competition. If someone wants to of the line performance, a grand isn't too bad. You can compare it with other things in your life too.
For example, I hardly drink at all these days so that's £10-20 a week I don't spend on something that goes down the toilet :). A mate had a small ding to his Porsche recently, that was close to £3k to fix. If someone can get say 2 years of top end performance out of a gaming GPU that's currently way ahead of the competition, even £1000 doesn't seem so bad to me, if you have the money.
I bought a Brompton recently, a top end one can cost £2k+. Many other bikes can cost much much more than that, my nephew wants a £7k bike....
So Brompton, Porsche, Ferrari and the list goes on all rubbing their hands together with contempt?
Good things cost ££££.
 
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It's getting to the point now the ceiling has been reached for what i would pay for a gpu, so much greed about in the world just for more money, i hope it all comes crashing down on this carry on, i have zero sympathy for pure greed if it all goes **** up no matter who you are, there will always be some clowns who will spend no matter the cost just to have the latest tech (yawn), bigger fool you.
 
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