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How much does your graphics card really cost?

McGraw said:
I'm sure none of the people here protesting about using length of ownership to calculate value have never happily bought a bar of chocolate for say £2 that's twice as big as a £1 one, knowing it will last them twice as long...
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No one is saying if you buy a £400 GPU it will last you twice as long as a £200 one. People are saying that because they use their GPU a lot (and sometimes in lieu of other hobbies/expenditures) they don't see it as poor value, the same as if I'm hungry or just fancy a snickers I'll get the bigger one because I want to. Just because a yorkie is cheaper doesn't suddenly make me think a snickers is poor value.
 
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McGraw said:
I'm sure none of the people here protesting about using length of ownership to calculate value have never happily bought a bar of chocolate for say £2 that's twice as big as a £1 one, knowing it will last them twice as long...
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And I’m sure you are not confusing the word cost with value....

Even in your example above the £2 bar cost .....£2. But the person who paid for it and then ate it can then determine if it was good value or not.....or maybe they will wait 5 years to eat it in order to get more “value” out of it.:p
 
weldon855 said:
And I’m sure you are not confusing the word cost with value....

Even in your example above the £2 bar cost .....£2. But the person who paid for it and then ate it can then determine if it was good value or not.....or maybe they will wait 5 years to eat it in order to get more “value” out of it.:p
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Ok I was but the example still stands.
 
andybird123 said:
No one is saying if you buy a £400 GPU it will last you twice as long as a £200 one. People are saying that because they use their GPU a lot (and sometimes in lieu of other hobbies/expenditures) they don't see it as poor value, the same as if I'm hungry or just fancy a snickers I'll get the bigger one because I want to. Just because a yorkie is cheaper doesn't suddenly make me think a snickers is poor value.
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No and neither am I but in your example the more expensive could last twice as long actually before it is obsolete.
 
McGraw said:
I'm sure none of the people here protesting about using length of ownership to calculate value have never happily bought a bar of chocolate for say £2 that's twice as big as a £1 one, knowing it will last them twice as long...
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Nah you just eat twice as much in one sitting.

If people want to amortise the cost of ownership over the life of the item that's up to them. It's still right for others to say it cost exactly what it cost up front. GPUs are one of many items where you can't reliably predict how long they're going o run stuff well or what their resale value is, so to use either 'metric' when purchasing is unreliable.
 
By this logic my 980ti has cost me about £15/m or 4p/day since I bought it. I don't intend to upgrade for a fair while yet either

I think it's potentially a useful metric when looking at previous decisions to see how they compared, but the only decision you could make off the back of it is "to get the same value I got from my last card, this £700 card needs to last me at least 4 years, and that seems fairly high risk. I will not buy this card"
 
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andybird123 said:
No one is saying if you buy a £400 GPU it will last you twice as long as a £200 one. People are saying that because they use their GPU a lot (and sometimes in lieu of other hobbies/expenditures) they don't see it as poor value, the same as if I'm hungry or just fancy a snickers I'll get the bigger one because I want to. Just because a yorkie is cheaper doesn't suddenly make me think a snickers is poor value.
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I think it's the fact GPU's have been priced around £50-£300 in the past. now they are priced at £75-£1000.

whereas other parts haven't went up as much.

GPU's are not value for money when compared to other parts. they are all expensive. 1060 6GB's were £350 a month ago. which is a low end card.

ideally it should be around £150.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
I think it's the fact GPU's have been priced around £50-£300 in the past. now they are priced at £75-£1000.

whereas other parts haven't went up as much.

GPU's are not value for money when compared to other parts. they are all expensive. 1060 6GB's were £350 a month ago. which is a low end card.

ideally it should be around £150.
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The 8800 Ultra was $829 in 2007. Ram prices have recently doubled, even tripled in some cases.
 
David Bisset said:
Nah you just eat twice as much in one sitting.

If people want to amortise the cost of ownership over the life of the item that's up to them. It's still right for others to say it cost exactly what it cost up front. GPUs are one of many items where you can't reliably predict how long they're going o run stuff well or what their resale value is, so to use either 'metric' when purchasing is unreliable.
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It still lasted them twice as long.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
yeah but how much would a decent mid end card cost back then?

like £150? today it's £300-£500.
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It has been up and down, even the 1060 6gb was available around £220-240 a few months ago (I know as I bought several)

Yes prices over the last couple of months have been bonkers, but itsn't going to stay quite that way, but yes prices do tend to go up over time, i think its called inflation.
 
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