Socks are hardly comparable to graphics cards. They don’t give you any enjoyment, cost pennies to make and have no resale value.
You’d also go without or wrap your feet in bandages rather than pay £500 for a pair.
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How much does your graphics card really cost?
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Socks are hardly comparable to graphics cards. They don’t give you any enjoyment, cost pennies to make and have no resale value.
You’d also go without or wrap your feet in bandages rather than pay £500 for a pair.
I wouldn't base what is a good price on how much I use the item over an unspecific period of time.
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No one is telling you too. Some people do take in to account how much use they will get from something in their determination of how much they are willing to spend on something, it doesnt mean everyone has to.
It doesn't make it better; it puts the cost into a different perspective. For instance, how much do you spend on newspapers each month? (£1 a day is approx £30 a month.) How much do you waste on the Lottery each month?
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The minute you break the cost of anything down to weekly, fortnightly or monthly to justify its cost you have demonstrated that you have buyers remorse and probably can't otherwise justify the purchase.
This sales tactic has been around since the dawn of time: "For as little as the price of your morning coffee a day you too can have the colondetonator5000!!!"
Save the $5 a day from the day you self harm with your last purchase and next time it costs you what you saved going back, not what you sacrifice going forward. You can do without that coffee anyway. While you are at it put an extra $5 a day into a compound interest account. You can then buy a graphics card and not eat cat food later on.
This sales tactic has been around since the dawn of time: "For as little as the price of your morning coffee a day you too can have the colondetonator5000!!!"
Save the $5 a day from the day you self harm with your last purchase and next time it costs you what you saved going back, not what you sacrifice going forward. You can do without that coffee anyway. While you are at it put an extra $5 a day into a compound interest account. You can then buy a graphics card and not eat cat food later on.
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How you came up with that is beyond me.
I have to say that I completely disagree with this rationale. I wear glasses...without them I can't see much, certainly not enough to do without them. I could spend a pittance on a cheap pair, or, invest a little more into something that will protect my eyes from harmful things, enable me to see and perhaps make me look a little better. I'd be wearing them every day and they'd be having an impact on everything I do....therefore in my book they're worth something to me, especially as they may last 2 to 4 years.
Same goes for graphics cards...the initial outlay might be a fair amount but If I'm using it regularly, it enables me to do things I'd not be able to do so well without, and importantly doesn't make me feel like I've misjudged what I want then it's worth it. What else is a better use for your hard earned money than the things you enjoy outside of work. For me resale value is moot. Much like cars I use my PC until it meets it's maker.
Buyers remorse is where you end up buying something you don't think you need...perhaps in this instance it might be a Titan GPU in a 1080 machine that is only used for Minecraft or visual novels. Certainly I think few educated consumers (ergo not those on these boards) run into buyers remorse very often.
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what it does show is a shocking lack of empathy
thanks, I was thinking how to word a response when someone's thought process was so obviously alien to my own, you did a pretty good job
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A lot of angry people and naysayers in this thread.
I find the topic pretty interesting actually
Quantifying value as expense over time in use is a perfectly valid approach in my opinion, good thread OP
It could be interesting to some, but the OP has maybe struggled with the definition of the word "really".
I paid £750 for my card, so that's what it really cost. I know this to be fact because I have the credit card bill to prove it.
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Thats only part of it, the OP also asked if people factor resale value in to their purchasing decision. He expressed one way in which he evaluates his purchasing decision, he didnt say everyone should follow the same process.
What I also got from his inference is that he feels that he paid a higher price upfront but its stopped him from needing to upgrade more periodically, so he's asking if people have paid less upfront but upgraded more often, over time they might have paid the same or more over the same time period even though they were under the impression they paid less for each GPU.
I get where you're coming from mate, but it's just semantics.
Indeed, nice one mate.
If you want to be really anal about things (on Ocuk? Surely not...) what it really cost someone could be the number of hours worked, on the things they couldn't buy instead, or whatever.
It's just a bit of fun
Loads of very rich people still buy things like cars on finance by the way.
Your income is measured hourly/weekly/monthly/annually so what's wrong with measuring expenditure that way too?
Another example: you want to buy a £1k TV so you save up say £100 per month. The only difference between doing that and buying it on interest free finance over 10 months is an arrangement fee and how soon you can enjoy your product.
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I don’t think there’s any way of dressing the thing up to get around the fact £800+ for a GPU is absolutely ridiculous. When you factor in the added cost of a gsync monitor (many here will have both) then consider the quality of current titles, surely this becomes difficult if not impossible to justify. Whether it’s over months or years it doesn’t really matter. If you’re prepared to blow the best part of a couple of grand to better play a handful of mediocre games this would suggest you’re mental.
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Not surprised actually.
I'm a 70 series buyer. I was borderline on the price as the 970 was £250 but ended up paying £380 for my 1070 at launch and sold my 970 for £150 to offset the cost.
I would never buy a graphics card that cost me more than £200 maybe £250 to upgrade from generation to generation.
I am not justifying the current prices of graphics cards although I would be very interested to know how much it costs nVidia to make them.
However, your "mental" comment is insulting to say the least. Many people spend far more than say £800 a year plus cost of games on other miles more expensive hobbies.
Is it "mental" to buy an expensive watch, diamond ring or car?