13 years ago vs now prices

PaulW · 2 Oct 2022 at 20:29

Had to post this when i found it as it made me giggle, then cry into my cornflakes. this is a 2009 OCUK order from when i last bought a PC to build. i am "upgrading" very soon but i am still rocking most of these components in my PC atm :eek:

, no really! the Mboard and GPU were upgraded 2 years after this list + new SSDs and monitor.
but its safe to say prices these days are crazy even when considering inflation over the years.
just thought this was an intresting post for people to discuss.

Goods Shipped:
£284.99 x 1 - BFG GeForce GTX 285 OCX 1024MB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 Graphics Card - Retail
£269.99 x 1 - Samsung T260 26" Widescreen LCD Monitor (LS26TWHSUV)
£219.99 x 1 - Intel Core i7 920 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail
£211.99 x 1 - Asus P6T Deluxe Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
£47.82 x 1 - Corsair 4GB DDR3 10666C9 1333MHz XMS3 TwinX Dual Channel Kit (2x2GB) (TW3X4G1333C9)
£47.82 x 1 - Corsair 4GB DDR3 10666C9 1333MHz XMS3 TwinX Dual Channel Kit (2x2GB) (TW3X4G1333C9)
£47.82 x 1 - Corsair 4GB DDR3 10666C9 1333MHz XMS3 TwinX Dual Channel Kit (2x2GB) (TW3X4G1333C9)
£102.99 x 1 - Antec P182 Super Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal Black (No PSU)
£84.99 x 1 - Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD1001FALS)
£79.99 x 1 - Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (66I-01939)
£49.99 x 1 - Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366)
£44.99 x 1 - Linksys by Cisco WMP110 300Mbps Wireless-N PCI RangePlus Adapter
£16.99 x 1 - Pioneer DVR-216DBK 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM

Happy Shopping!
:eek:

Tealc · 2 Oct 2022 at 21:45

I still use my i7 920. I don't use my PC as much as I used to so can't justify the cost of a new build. It only goes on maybe 2-3 hours a week and I don't game like I used to, I just don't have the patience for it anymore.

In reality it's only the mobo and CPU that have remained as I've a new case, PSU, GPU, RAM and SSDs aplenty but it has still served me well.

Dicehunter · 3 Oct 2022 at 07:13

Due to all the crazy price hikes manufacturers have done over the last few years I've seen a lot of people simply walk away from the PC hobby as they are getting priced out and going with the more budget orientated stuff isn't really an option as it tends to be quite cheap and nasty.

JollyJamma · 3 Oct 2022 at 09:19

Once went through my step dads old stuff and found an invoice for a 20 meg hard drive for £1750 (roughly).

Computers are so much cheaper now than they were in the good-old-days

£284.99 x 1 - BFG GeForce GTX 285 OCX 1024MB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 Graphics Card - Retail

That works out to £405.43 in todays money. Nvidia has leaned heavily into high end cards costing a fortune since then. Remember the 8800 Ultra which was priced at $829 in 2007?

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra Specs

NVIDIA G80, 612 MHz, 128 Cores, 32 TMUs, 24 ROPs, 768 MB GDDR3, 1080 MHz, 384 bit

www.techpowerup.com

Dicehunter · 3 Oct 2022 at 09:24

JollyJamma said:
Once went through my step dads old stuff and found an invoice for a 20 meg hard drive for £1750 (roughly).

Computers are so much cheaper now than they were in the good-old-days

£284.99 x 1 - BFG GeForce GTX 285 OCX 1024MB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 Graphics Card - Retail

That works out to £405.43 in todays money. Nvidia has leaned heavily into high end cards costing a fortune since then. Remember the 8800 Ultra which was priced at $829 in 2007?

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra Specs

NVIDIA G80, 612 MHz, 128 Cores, 32 TMUs, 24 ROPs, 768 MB GDDR3, 1080 MHz, 384 bit

www.techpowerup.com

Go back to around 2010, Prices were damn good, Prices now are atrocious.

JollyJamma · 3 Oct 2022 at 09:37

Dicehunter said:
Go back to around 2010, Prices were damn good, Prices now are atrocious.

Oh yes, definitely.

Pricing always fluctuates.

I do think that the next 3 to 5 years is going to see a reduction in certain hardware pricing but Nvidias high end stuff is mental. There are clearly enough people out there who will happily spend £1600 on a GPU, £1000 on a motherboard before they even get to the CPU.

Deleted member 77746 · 3 Oct 2022 at 09:38

Prices of everything needs to come down. Pronto.

Saying that I remember when I purchased a no speed CD writer for £250, luckily I made my money back though to pay for it.

Dicehunter · 3 Oct 2022 at 09:44

JollyJamma said:
Oh yes, definitely.

Pricing always fluctuates.

I do think that the next 3 to 5 years is going to see a reduction in certain hardware pricing but Nvidias high end stuff is mental. There are clearly enough people out there who will happily spend £1600 on a GPU, £1000 on a motherboard before they even get to the CPU.

Mate of mine was the type that would buy the top end GPU every year or every release, Titan Z, Titan X, Titan Black, Titan Xp Star Wars Edition etc etc... and with the 4000 series price announcement he tapped out and said "Jensen can go jump", I think more people should do the same to be honest, Vote with wallets.

JollyJamma · 3 Oct 2022 at 09:58

Dicehunter said:
Mate of mine was the type that would buy the top end GPU every year or every release, Titan Z, Titan X, Titan Black, Titan Xp Star Wars Edition etc etc... and with the 4000 series price announcement he tapped out and said "Jensen can go jump", I think more people should do the same to be honest, Vote with wallets.

I love that.

rare · 3 Oct 2022 at 10:01

Dicehunter said:
Mate of mine was the type that would buy the top end GPU every year or every release, Titan Z, Titan X, Titan Black, Titan Xp Star Wars Edition etc etc... and with the 4000 series price announcement he tapped out and said "Jensen can go jump", I think more people should do the same to be honest, Vote with wallets.

Sounds like he was already rinsed haha. Titan-Z was 3 grand at launch!

Jay85 · 3 Oct 2022 at 15:35

Dicehunter said:
Mate of mine was the type that would buy the top end GPU every year or every release, Titan Z, Titan X, Titan Black, Titan Xp Star Wars Edition etc etc... and with the 4000 series price announcement he tapped out and said "Jensen can go jump", I think more people should do the same to be honest, Vote with wallets.

If only but unfortunately most people buy with the goal of showing it off on reddit or some social platform for their 3 minutes of fame and acknowledgement for attention.

It's sad but so true...

Phemo · 3 Oct 2022 at 16:52

Yes it's depressing. I've still got (for some reason) the order confirmation email for when I ordered my 2600K from OcUK back in July 2011. That was £199.99 so £240 inc VAT and even adjusting for inflation that's about £315 in today's money. Now to get any kind of mid/high-end CPU you're looking at a fair bit more than that.

Also you can tell it's been a while since I last did a build because I'm currently wondering what the hell happened to motherboard prices? Back when I last put something together, £150-200 would get you a motherboard that was decent - not the highest end kit, but decent - but now they seem to be £300+. Why?

V F · 3 Oct 2022 at 20:38

Funny seeing the interesting games list of 2009.

2009 in video games - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Dicehunter said:
Go back to around 2010, Prices were damn good, Prices now are atrocious.

Then the following year, 2011 it was the crazy popularity of i5 2500K SandyBridge's. Everyone and their granny was ordering them here. Remember that? Which was the year of Crysis 2.

Funny to also think, The Last of Us for Playstation 3 wasn't even out yet or even Battlefield 3.

Phemo said:
Yes it's depressing. I've still got (for some reason) the order confirmation email for when I ordered my 2600K from OcUK back in July 2011. That was £199.99 so £240 inc VAT and even adjusting for inflation that's about £315 in today's money. Now to get any kind of mid/high-end CPU you're looking at a fair bit more than that.

Also you can tell it's been a while since I last did a build because I'm currently wondering what the hell happened to motherboard prices? Back when I last put something together, £150-200 would get you a motherboard that was decent - not the highest end kit, but decent - but now they seem to be £300+. Why?

Back in November 2020 my motherboard was £699.96. The CPU was £555.46. :eek:

Then in 2012 an Asrock z77 Extreme 6 was about £150-ish and the i7 3770K was £275 - £375?

Dicehunter · 4 Oct 2022 at 06:52

rare said:
Sounds like he was already rinsed haha. Titan-Z was 3 grand at launch!

Oh he didn't pay full price for it, He wasn't that daft, He got it pre-owned with no cooler so that chopped off a huge portion of the price.

MatteRB26 · 4 Oct 2022 at 07:04

Back in 2012 I built a whole PC for about £650 with a 3570k that lasted me until 2019, a 6870 that lasted years, a case and PSU that I still use today...

Now I'm looking at a single GPU for not much less...

malachi · 4 Oct 2022 at 15:04

I don't think its bad like it was in back in the late 90's, early 00's.

Paying hundreds for an Pentium 2 or 3, for it to be out of date 6 months later by another CPU which was an extra 100MHz faster. Back then, you noticed the speed difference as it was all single core. So you was upgrading every year which worked out expensive in the end if you wanted to keep on top of things due to the MHz race.

Now your CPU from 5 years ago is still good enough for high end computing and it probably wasn't top end when you purchased it back then.

bfar · 4 Oct 2022 at 21:25

I remember forking out €600 bucks for a GTX 8800 and thinking I'd lost my mind. Years later I got a GTX 280 for a song, much Iike the example above. If you remember, Nvidia discounted that gen heavily when AMD caught them on the hop. Will it happen again?

V F · 4 Oct 2022 at 22:17

malachi said:
I don't think its bad like it was in back in the late 90's, early 00's.

Paying hundreds for an Pentium 2 or 3, for it to be out of date 6 months later by another CPU which was an extra 100MHz faster. Back then, you noticed the speed difference as it was all single core. So you was upgrading every year which worked out expensive in the end if you wanted to keep on top of things due to the MHz race.

Now your CPU from 5 years ago is still good enough for high end computing and it probably wasn't top end when you purchased it back then.

I remember that. It was somewhat rough up until 2010? It was slowing down when the X2 64 chips was coming out but Crysis still killed what you thought your good system was. :cry:

Once the PS4 came out in 2014, it really slowed down requiring hefty upgrades.

malachi · 4 Oct 2022 at 22:22

V F said:
I remember that. It was somewhat rough up until 2010? It was slowing down when the X2 64 chips was coming out but Crysis still killed what you thought your good system was.

Once the PS4 came out in 2014, it really slowed down requiring hefty upgrades.

Yep, once multicore CPU's became a thing then the MHz race stopped and CPU's were lasting longer.

V F · 4 Oct 2022 at 22:41

It was good times in 2002 - 2006. The battle between Pentium 4 and Athlon XP. Everyone flipping back and forth between the two. Athlon XP M 2500+ back then was the equivalent of Sandybridge i5 2500K popularity. Plus all the NVIDIA nForce 2 boards. DFI LanParty/ABIT. Soundstorm was all the rage.