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ajones32

ajones32

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AGP cards cost £300, was just looking through old emails and found some ocuk orders from 2005.

Your order (prices in GBP)
£324.95+VAT x 1 - HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X800 XT PE ICEQ II 256MB DDR3 VIVO TV-Out/DVI (AGP) - Retail (GX-000-HT)

However, at the time it was an excellent card and well worth the cost probably worth about £30 now hehe.

Can any of you remember the cost of things you got a few years ago, also shows the progress made in GPU technology in the last 3 years or so.
 
Voodoo ! I forgot about that, ran smoking hot & was guaranteed for ten years & the Company folded. I wonder if there was a connection. I lashed a fan to mine with cable ties.
 
I paid £340 for my 17" TFT in 2004. Still using it though!

Can't say I've spent over £200-ish on a graphics card though.
 
When I got my Asus 16MB TNT card in early '99 it had just been released and was the fastest 3D graphics card - it was £116.
 
malccy said:
Remember paying £250 for a 9800xt when they came out.
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I got one of asus's 9800 pros, which turned out to be a 9800XT flashed to pro, with a 9800pro sticker on the PCB covering the 9800XT written on it , I flashed the bios and it worked great! :D Cost me £240 from what I can remember :cool:
 
It's not that old... but i payed 140 pounds for my 7600GT (PNY Splinter cell edition... so i think it came overclocked... it was very powerful for a 7 series O.o)

Which is worth like 40 quid now...

Feel screwed over hehe, although it was from an overpriced retail shop...
 
i still have an old athlon 1800xp rig with an agp gforce4 ti4800se, cant even remember what it cost but its still working well.
 
Im still sporting a p1/200mhz/32 meg of ram with a 1.2gig drive and its running win2k hooked up to my cnc machines for program backup ,, lol .

That same computer is what i slayed noobs with in Duke Nukem 3d in "95" ,, hehe

I think i paid $300.00 US for the 32 meg of ram and 200 for the 4 meg Diamond 3D video card ,, hahaha

I remember the VooDoo 2 SLI rig i had sporting 2 x 8 meg of video memory for a wopping 16 meg combined !

All this makes me wonder how many computers ive actually owned :rolleyes:
 
I recall paying approx £360 for my old Asus 8460 Ultra (ti4600)

Today, it can't run Battlefield 2. :mad:
 
I paid £200 for a 9.2Gb Quantum Atlas II U160 SCSI drive, plus £70 for a SCSI card. It was blazing fast back then :p

Apart from that, I've always bought low-end stuff.

Of course there's the £300 for a ZX48 Spectrum, and the £300 for the Sega Megadrive...
 
I think the most incredible drop in price has to be memory. I mean only a year/18 months ago it'd set you back over £200 for a good 2Gb kit. Now it's about £30.:eek:
 
I can remember paying 120+vat for a 4MB strip of EDO ram and around 420 + vat for a
P90!

Tech is the only thing thats got cheaper in this mad, mad world.

It costs more to fill up your car with fuel than it does to uprgade your computer now, crazy!
 
I remember selling 4mb of ram to a guy at uni for £90 - which was a fair price and helped me make the investment ;) in a wopping 16mb.

My most rash purchase has to be an FX53 which was part of a full system i bought but put the price up by about £400 to £500 over mid range at the time. It was faster than anything intel could offer but had no room for an overclock and now powers my parents PC (complete with 6800gt) which gets used for nothing more challenging than outlook. had three years use out of it but i learnt my lesson there, i'm always happy to go high end on gpus but can't justify taking the uber high end route on cpus (got to love the q6600!)
 
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