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I was talking to my dad today, and i explained to him about the new release that came out today and how the GT280 is pretty fast and how it wipes everything else. And then i proceeded to tell him how its nice and all but its 650 dollars. And how id like to get one but im contemplating the 300 dollars stepup price and then he was like. Ha, 650 dollars? I paid less for my car and it works perfectly fine. I thought to myself, damn... my videocard could be more expensive than my dads 4th car? :confused: And then he proceeded to tell me that he thinks that Videocards have pretty much evolved into a computer within your computer and that you're essentially buying a prebuilt PC inside your custom PC. Man makes alotta sense if you think about it now that we've got TRI SLI and CUDA and PhysX
 
Very True. When you look at modern technology, enthusiast processors have 2, 3, 4, or 2x4 cores. On the other hand, graphics cards have hundreds of processing units, amongst other things, all built onto that one, (or 2 in some cases) of pcb. And its been that way for years. The video card will evolve over the next few years, and people will find it can do some things better than the conventional central processing unit can.
 
Reminds me of that old 3dfx commercial:

"We have a chip that can revolutionize modern medicine. With the power to perform 100 billion operations per second... then we though... Hey, we can use this to play games!"
 
Eldragon said:
Reminds me of that old 3dfx commercial:

"We have a chip that can revolutionize modern medicine. With the power to perform 100 billion operations per second... then we though... Hey, we can use this to play games!"
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Funny how they predicted the future didnt they? :)
 
Yeah well you yanks have it easy ...
I just bought a GTX 280 and the very cheapest one costs £400. Most are in the region of £460-480. That's over $800 ;)

Not to mention fuel prices, food prices, public transport, rent etc :eek:
 
Get some american to buy it for you and you will buy it from them for an extra $20. you both would make off well.
 
xdivenx said:
Get some american to buy it for you and you will buy it from them for an extra $20. you both would make off well.
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Actually, I did that with the 9800 GX2's. I bought two of them when they came out and I happened to be on holiday in the U.S.
I yielded to temptation though, and since I didn't like them that much I sold them on ebay making a $100 profit on each because of the difference in price :D :D

If it weren't for pesky customs, that kind of return would almost justify a flight to New York just to buy a whole bunch of graphics cards and sell them in the UK.
 
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