At what point do you say GPU's are too expensive and refuse to buy?

[Slam]

truth!!

Yes - this forums demographic is a lot of middle aged older white blokes though, which traditionally due to the way our society is setup tend to earn above average to say the least. It's clear from a few known forum members they are on CONSIDERABLY more than most - but often their posts show having money doesn't often correlate with a high intelligence They just got lucky......sadly a fair fews 'world view' just isn't realistic & they think life is easy for everyone, just like theirs is.

Rant over

Full disclosure I am one of these older dudes who COULD buy a 5090, but I absolutely sure as hell won't because its obviously not worth anywhere near that.

 

[Sparky]

MSI ATI X800 XT Platinum Edition 256MB was £359.99 in May 2004, I bought one at the time.

Think mine was the poverty spec model, picked it up when driving through at the tiny OCUK shop they had then and it was Tiiiiiny

 

[Gerard]

x800 pro for me, always was tight!

Could be unlocked by bios flash to xt-pe performance more often than not.

 

[Sparky]

Could be unlocked by bios flash to xt-pe performance more often than not.

Wow that brought back memories , forgot you could do that

 

[chaparral]

Oh for the days of paying £100 for an 256mb x800 , we must have been less demanding then or I guess didnt know any better

Thought they cost around £300 back then

 

[Sparky]

Thought they cost around £300 back then

Was a long time ago, could well have been the case.

 

[chaparral]

Was a long time ago, could well have been the case.

The only GPU i ever paid less than £100 was for my voodoo 1 card (Think it was either £75 or £85)
voodoo 2 was around 120
voodoo 3 3000 was 160
and the rest carried on going up in price each time from there