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chowda · 03-17-2006, 11:14 PM

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

damn monopolies

Jace · 03-17-2006, 11:16 PM

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

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

KRL · 03-17-2006, 11:21 PM

Which brand do you like?

Have you seen the new nVidia Quad SLI?

I'd hit it!

bellskids · 03-17-2006, 11:25 PM

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+

Spunky · 03-17-2006, 11:29 PM

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Originally Posted by KRL

Which brand do you like?

Have you seen the new nVidia Quad SLI?

Indeed..that arouses me

Jarmusch · 03-17-2006, 11:30 PM

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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.

Doctor Dre · 03-17-2006, 11:31 PM

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.

biftek · 03-17-2006, 11:33 PM

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

BusterBunny · 03-17-2006, 11:33 PM

never looked at the prices my rigs run like champs already

mrkris · 03-17-2006, 11:33 PM

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.

KRL · 03-17-2006, 11:47 PM

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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.

KRL · 03-17-2006, 11:51 PM

LOL, and the tape reader.

BusterBunny · 03-17-2006, 11:54 PM

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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

KRL · 03-17-2006, 11:58 PM

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

KRL · 03-18-2006, 12:02 AM

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.

KRL · 03-18-2006, 12:05 AM

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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.

BusterBunny · 03-18-2006, 12:17 AM

my uncle helped invent erma...the bank check processing machine thats all i have going for me... note that is not him

Dagwolf · 03-18-2006, 12:21 AM

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Originally Posted by KRL

Which brand do you like?

Have you seen the new nVidia Quad SLI?

I'd hit it!

Am I the only one who sees a resemblance here?

KRL · 03-18-2006, 12:23 AM

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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.

BusterBunny · 03-18-2006, 12:26 AM

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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.

you win yours is bigger

EdgeXXX · 03-18-2006, 12:39 AM

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).

KRL · 03-18-2006, 09:50 AM

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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.

Stallion · 03-18-2006, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by KRL

Which brand do you like?

Have you seen the new nVidia Quad SLI?

I'd hit it!

I think I have a woody..

Ace_luffy · 03-18-2006, 10:05 AM

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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

Basic_man · 03-18-2006, 10:07 AM

Price for video card have always been too high.. wondering why..

Basic_man · 03-18-2006, 10:07 AM

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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 !

shuki · 03-18-2006, 10:08 AM

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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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