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  • chowda
    Confirmed User
    • Jun 2003
    • 9527

    #1

    Video card prices are crazy

    what other component in a computer that has actually increased in price other than video cards.?

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  • Jace
    FBOP Class Of 2013
    • Jan 2004
    • 35562

    #2
    haha, very true...I never really thought about it before...haha

    www.pricewatch.com though...they have the cheapest prices

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    • KRL
      Entrepreneur
      • Oct 2002
      • 31429

      #3
      Which brand do you like?

      Have you seen the new nVidia Quad SLI?



      I'd hit it!
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      • bellskids
        Confirmed User
        • Jul 2002
        • 558

        #4
        woah thats a beast. Have video card prices actually risen a lot though. I always thought that theyve pretty much stayed constant, ie the current top of the range card will cost $500+
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        • Spunky
          I need a beer
          • Jun 2002
          • 133978

          #5
          Originally posted by KRL
          Which brand do you like?

          Have you seen the new nVidia Quad SLI?
          Indeed..that arouses me

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          • Jarmusch
             
            • May 2003
            • 12479

            #6
            Originally posted by KRL
            Which brand do you like?

            Have you seen the new nVidia Quad SLI?



            I'd hit it!
            How many PSU's do you need to run that? Or is just one 1000W enough?

            About graphics cards prices being up, I beg to differ, unless you're looking at the top of the line cards, but top of the line cards have always been $500+ nothing new. Low-mid cards are as cheap as they have always been.

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            • Doctor Dre
              Too lazy to set a custom title
              • Jan 2001
              • 51692

              #7
              I don't know ... I paid 800 bucks like 5 years ago for my card ... the top of the range pretty much stayed the same. I just don't buy them anymore since I don't need it... no games and no video edition except on 1 machine I have access too.
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              • biftek
                So Fucking Banned
                • Jan 2005
                • 1030

                #8
                pc componets are pretty much the same as anything else on the market , when they first hit the shelves they cost a shitload , but as newer stuff gets released prices come down

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                • BusterBunny
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                  • Aug 2005
                  • 19291

                  #9
                  never looked at the prices my rigs run like champs already
                  my sig caught gonoherpasyphilaids and died

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                  • mrkris
                    Confirmed User
                    • May 2005
                    • 2737

                    #10
                    Actually, prices have dropped significantly on PC hardware. Looking at the prices for new video cards is just like the pricing for processors. New processors cost upwards of $1k and more. Wait a few months, it will drop. A card I bought my dad last summer was $500~ and right now you can get the same one for $250.

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                    • KRL
                      Entrepreneur
                      • Oct 2002
                      • 31429

                      #11
                      Originally posted by BusterBunny
                      never looked at the prices my rigs run like champs already
                      Hah, hah, ya know when I was in Computer Club in high school we just had IBM punch tapes to code our programs on and orange vacuum tubes to display numerical equation results. Didn't even have moniters yet. LOL

                      So when the IBM PC, Atari, Apple's first machines, etc, came out, yeh they had these basic 8 color displays, but we thought that was incredible and cutting edge at the time.



                      Here's a pic of how we'd save our programs to punch hole tapes. And don't laugh tooooo hard.

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                      • KRL
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                        • Oct 2002
                        • 31429

                        #12
                        LOL, and the tape reader.



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                        • BusterBunny
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                          • Aug 2005
                          • 19291

                          #13
                          Originally posted by KRL
                          Hah, hah, ya know when I was in Computer Club in high school we just had IBM punch tapes to code our programs on and orange vacuum tubes to display numerical equation results. Didn't even have moniters yet. LOL

                          So when the IBM PC, Atari, Apple's first machines, etc, came out, yeh they had these basic 8 color displays, but we thought that was incredible and cutting edge at the time.



                          Here's a pic of how we'd save our programs to punch hole tapes. And don't laugh tooooo hard.

                          woa that is like almost comic book style right there that tape is outta hand i saved my paper route money and hooked the atari 800 up
                          my sig caught gonoherpasyphilaids and died

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                          • KRL
                            Entrepreneur
                            • Oct 2002
                            • 31429

                            #14


                            Oh man a fricking Bendix G-15.

                            This was considered one of the most revolutionary computer system in the '50's because of how they compacted the size from what ENIAC was.

                            Check out inside the box. CLICK PIC TO ENLARGE VIEW. LOL

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                            • KRL
                              Entrepreneur
                              • Oct 2002
                              • 31429

                              #15
                              This is why when they asked Tom Watson, founder of IBM, what he envisioned for the future of computers, he said he couldn't ever envision people having computers in their homes.

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                              • KRL
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                                • Oct 2002
                                • 31429

                                #16
                                Originally posted by BusterBunny
                                woa that is like almost comic book style right there that tape is outta hand i saved my paper route money and hooked the atari 800 up
                                Yeh it was as primitive a hard drive as you can get. In computer club you could totally freak out a geek by taking a pair of scissors to his paper tapes.

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                                • BusterBunny
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                                  • Aug 2005
                                  • 19291

                                  #17


                                  my uncle helped invent erma...the bank check processing machine thats all i have going for me... note that is not him
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                                  • Dagwolf
                                    President of Canada
                                    • Sep 2003
                                    • 23141

                                    #18
                                    Originally posted by KRL
                                    Which brand do you like?

                                    Have you seen the new nVidia Quad SLI?



                                    I'd hit it!
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                                    • KRL
                                      Entrepreneur
                                      • Oct 2002
                                      • 31429

                                      #19
                                      Originally posted by BusterBunny


                                      my uncle helped invent erma...the bank check processing machine thats all i have going for me... note that is not him
                                      Cool. The father of a friend of mine when I was young was a computer scientist at Univ of Pennsylvania and helped develop ENIAC.





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                                      • BusterBunny
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                                        • Aug 2005
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                                        #20
                                        Originally posted by KRL
                                        Cool. The father of a friend of mine when I was young was a computer scientist at Univ of Pennsylvania and helped develop ENIAC.





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                                        • EdgeXXX
                                          Confirmed User
                                          • Oct 2005
                                          • 5816

                                          #21
                                          Shit, that's nothing. Wait until you get into professional level graphics (render) cards like the 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm 800 or the PNY Quadro FX 4500 SDI. The prices start in the thousands (for just the card).
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                                          • KRL
                                            Entrepreneur
                                            • Oct 2002
                                            • 31429

                                            #22
                                            Originally posted by BusterBunny
                                            you win yours is bigger
                                            Yeh ENIAC was monstrous.

                                            Some more info on it:

                                            The ENIAC was a decimal machine operating internally on base ten only, using pulse trends to transmit information around. So, to send a nine from one bank of circuits to another bank of circuits, the ENIAC would send nine pulses down the wire, all synchronized by a master clock. This machine sped along at a gargantuan 5,000 operations a second in fixed point only. It is roughly comparable to an HP45 calculator. Internally, it stored 20 ten-digit numbers, all operating in base ten, and there was no central memory at all. When the machine was originally designed, it was actually a data-flow computer. Numbers moved through the machine along the wiring banks from calculation point to calculation point.

                                            The ENIAC was a gargantuan beast made from over 19,000 vacuum tubes. Here you can see some poor technician of the day trying to figure out which one to replace -- a job I don't envy him at all. To interface to the IBM card punch equipment took 15,000 relays because IBM used high current circuits to run all their accounting machines, and the vacuum tubes could not sink enough current in order to please IBM.

                                            ENIAC used 175 kilowatts of power, and it lasted about 5.6 hours, according to the historical reports, between repairs.
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                                            • Stallion
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                                              • Jan 2001
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                                              #23
                                              Originally posted by KRL
                                              Which brand do you like?

                                              Have you seen the new nVidia Quad SLI?



                                              I'd hit it!

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                                              • Ace_luffy
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                                                • Feb 2005
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                                                #24
                                                Originally posted by KRL
                                                Which brand do you like?

                                                Have you seen the new nVidia Quad SLI?



                                                I'd hit it!


                                                nice video card ... how many monitor can be run with it


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                                                • Basic_man
                                                  Programming King Pin
                                                  • Oct 2003
                                                  • 27360

                                                  #25
                                                  Price for video card have always been too high.. wondering why..
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                                                  • Basic_man
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                                                    • Oct 2003
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                                                    #26
                                                    Originally posted by Ace_luffy

                                                    nice video card ... how many monitor can be run with it
                                                    By looking at the pic.. I'd say 4 !
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                                                    • shuki
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                                                      • Aug 2004
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                                                      #27
                                                      Originally posted by KRL
                                                      Which brand do you like?

                                                      Have you seen the new nVidia Quad SLI?



                                                      I'd hit it!
                                                      That thing looks crazy!! I bet 3d games play great on that.
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