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Graphics card prices :(

[TW]Fox;12581991 said:
Are you saying that as the economy slides into recession luxury items remain in demand and thus price remains high?
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It seems daft but it does tend to work like that with certain items.
 
Robert said:
Firstly I was looking at getting a 4870X2 - then prices went up slightly. Next I looked at the 280 - which has also gone up by £40 :(

Any news on this super chip form NVIDIA?
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I agree that prices have been creeping back up recently. It is still better than 2 or 3 years ago though, when consumers were getting really reamed. Top end cards were routinely between £450 and £600 on release. I remember seeing a poor/stupid guy handover £740 for a Nvidia 7800GTX 512 in a shop on Tottenham Court Road...

The market won't tolerate that level of pricing these days.
 
I simply won't buy.- Top end GFX cards are luxury items anyway, it doesn't hurt to put off buying them. I think I'm going to be a generation behind from now on and just pick up the second hand bargains. The days of me having the latest are well and truly over I've learnt a hard lesson and lost to much money in the process.

As soon as a new card comes out the old ones lose so much money. I'll stick with my 8800gts 512 for now the pick up a 280 when every one wants to off load them cheap because there's a new latest and greatest card out, which seems to be every other month with Nvidia.
 
^ Agreed
beh* said:
The prices are totally ridiculous these days.
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Not really, you don't have to get a £100+ GFX card. I use a 8800GT and it's awesome. ;)

Also, if less people buy the £300+ cards, prices will come down... Supply and demand I think it's called? I've never ever spent more than £200 on one single computer component, I can think of many better things to spend my money on.
 
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I picked up a bfg 8800gtx oc2 for £80 to slap in sli for the time being.

Haven't been tempted with anything this generation, and these work fine for anything I want to run at the moment.
 
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