Old cards, or at least non-gaming utility cards so expensive?

funkydmunky

funkydmunky

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They were, are, and have been well before the mining craze, despite their complete lack of mining ability to begin with.
Should it not be logical that mass produced basic 1GB media center GPU's should be $25? I mean really, that is some very old level tech. But when one searches Amazon or any big retailer, nothing of the sort is available. I guess I can blame IGPU, but this is old cheap tech. Why the gouging?
 
You can find a bunch for about $30-50 on NewEgg. Low profile weak-sauce cards are kinda a niche market. Also there's no 'mass producing' - those chips are low binned stuff, better the yield, less of these are available.
 
I would second the microcenter comment if you have one around, and assuming you do not mind an openbox you can get a geforce 610, 640, 710, or 730 for $30 maybe even less if there is a rebate available. I would think though if you are looking for a media centric card you might want the fancier decode block stuff for say h264, h265 or maybe even hdmi 2 if you are wanting to run a 4k60 monitor natively at 60p without an active displayport adapter. In that case you would need a geforce 950/60 or 1030-50 / radeon rx 460 / 550-60, where these can be sub 50 if you look around. I guess with the old crap there is a cost of holding on to the hardware being carried on to the consumer?
 
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