What is the most expensive Video Card you ever bought?

Deacon_Jones1988 said:
I think those cards went for around $200 thats been 16 years ago i think, i was 11. Damn....
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You're missing a zero, they were $2,000 according the Toms Hardware review I just glanced at a few moments ago.
 
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My TitanX's were actually cheap, compared to some other people's purchases. I got lucky, though!
 
2x 8800 GTX that set me back 800+ euros back then.......all because of Crysis !
 
I bit the Quad SLI bullet with two GTX 295s in 2009. That was painful.

But I used them until 2014 with good results.
 
Spirit_Retro said:
I bit the Quad SLI bullet with two GTX 295s in 2009. That was painful.

But I used them until 2014 with good results.
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I've had 3x 8800GTX's, 2x 9800GX2's, 3x GTX 280's, 3x GTX 580's, 3x GTX 680's, 3x GTX 780Ti's, and now 2x TITAN X's. I've been bit by the multi-SLI bug several times. In fact, if the scaling weren't so shitty on 3-Way SLI, I'd have 3x TITAN X's.
 
$650 on a 980 Ti, or $800 on two 680's only to quickly realize that I hated SLI.
 
Gtx 780. I generally buy around the 6 series gtx line but I had just got a dell 2560x1440 monitor and had a baby on the way so I wanted some extra mileage out of it. So far it's been great and even a couple years later I don't really feel the upgrade itch.
 
For me, it would have to be my first 7970, which I bought right at release, for about $550 or so. I got a second one later for a lot less.
 
Think I paid $550.00 CAD for my Vioodoo5 and then I went and bought whatever Nvidia was selling at the time and think that was also $550.00 CAD. I had two 5850s for a while so that is probably the most I have spent on video for one computer, think first one was $500.00 CAD but got the second one much later for $300.00, so $800.00 CAD total. Now, I would never spend more than $500.00 on a single video card, that is the limit I have set and I can afford $1,000.00 if I want, but nope, never paying those prices.

Right now I have GTX780 and don't see anything that would warrant an upgrade to that would cost $500.00.
 
rezerekted said:
Think I paid $550.00 CAD for my Vioodoo5 and then I went and bought whatever Nvidia was selling at the time and think that was also $550.00 CAD. I had two 5850s for a while so that is probably the most I have spent on video for one computer, think first one was $500.00 CAD but got the second one much later for $300.00, so $800.00 CAD total. Now, I would never spend more than $500.00 on a single video card, that is the limit I have set and I can afford $1,000.00 if I want, but nope, never paying those prices.

Right now I have GTX780 and don't see anything that would warrant an upgrade to that would cost $500.00.
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The GeForce2 GTS came out at $400 USD around the time of the Voodoo 5 5500.
 
5870 at launch for me. Folded, ran multiple other DC projects, and mined BTC in the early days, years at 24/7 use all at 1ghz. Still in use and playing the latest games, albeit at reduced settings on secondary rig nowadays.
 
My current pair of 6950s; they're the most expensive computer part(s) I've ever bought period.

Now that I have a better job though, the next upgrade in 2017 is going to be... substantially more. :)
 
Dan_D said:
I've had 3x 8800GTX's, 2x 9800GX2's, 3x GTX 280's, 3x GTX 580's, 3x GTX 680's, 3x GTX 780Ti's, and now 2x TITAN X's. I've been bit by the multi-SLI bug several times. In fact, if the scaling weren't so shitty on 3-Way SLI, I'd have 3x TITAN X's.
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I've never had SLI or crossfire but I did have multiple cards in the computer in the past so that I could run multiple screens.

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The last setup was a GTX285 and a 9600GT before I went to the AMD HD5850 which supported triple screens.
 
Yakk said:
5870 at launch for me. Folded, ran multiple other DC projects, and mined BTC in the early days, years at 24/7 use all at 1ghz. Still in use and playing the latest games, albeit at reduced settings on secondary rig nowadays.
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I should have mined more. I tried it for a a few hours back in the day and many years later I remembered I had a bitcoin wallet and checked the balance. I had $150 worth of a bitcoin in there.
 
Zepher said:
I should have mined more. I tried it for a a few hours back in the day and many years later I remembered I had a bitcoin wallet and checked the balance. I had $150 worth of a bitcoin in there.
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Tell me about it...! At the time I was discouraged I could "only" mine 1.2 BTC per DAY. I remember that value very, very well... Still made a good penny, my 5870 was also the most profitable card I've ever bought. Who would've known back then... sigh...
 
Yakk said:
Tell me about it...! At the time I was discouraged I could "only" mine 1.2 BTC per DAY. I remember that value very, very well... Still made a good penny, my 5870 was also the most profitable card I've ever bought. Who would've known back then... sigh...
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I read an article about a guy doing a story on bitcoin and bought 5000 coins for something like $25. Years later he cashed them in for over $800K. :eek:
If he would have held off till the peak, it would have been over a million bucks.

I remember people snapping up the HD5830 cards as those were great cheap mining cards.
 
Speaking of mining I purchased 4 refrence r9 290x's @ $649 each = $2600 for a nice and shiny quad crossfire / LTC coin mining operation, not to mention the need for a 1200w ps, in addition to my 850w. I think I got the hashing for sha256 stuff up to around 5 Mh/s, which was not to bad when LTC his $25/ coin mark. Luckily I came close to breaking even, then switched over to running 2x of the cards for a while in crossfire. I eventually switched over to a 980ti, from evga B-stock by selling those cards to a forum member for about break even, so at the end of the day not too bad of a purchase.
 
980 ti (700€) by far. Also got to add the 50€ of the Prolimatech MK-26 I slapped on it a few months later. Absolutely no regrets though. I originally bought a Rog Swift + GTX 970 in December 2015 but quickly realized that I was not going to live with so little VRAM (no it's not about the 3.5Gb, a 980 wouldn't have cut it either) and barely acceptable FPS. So as soon as the 980 ti hit the shelves, I grabbed it.
 
EVGA 980 Ti FTW for $649. Before that, an XFX R9 290 for just over $400. However, I used to do crossfire every time I made a new purchase but, not with these expensive cards.
 
Armenius said:
The GeForce2 GTS came out at $400 USD around the time of the Voodoo 5 5500.
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Yea, that was it but it was $550.00 in Canada. Just remembered, EVGA sent me that dual 7xxx card (2 vid cards sandwiched together) because I had to do an rma twice, think that card went for well over $700.00 but I never actually paid for it.
 
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I think mine would have been, relative to income, the Ti 4600 at I think $400 on or very near release. Course they dropped to half of that in about a month. :phantom:
 
My R9-295X2...$1529.99 back about 2 years ago....kinda cringe at it now because of the limitations of it being a two GPU card and it not using both GPU's all the time.
 
IIRC it was my Radeon X1900xt, ~$560. Almost as much as my current crossfire setup cost.
 
This is the Matrox RT.X2 card sitting on my desk. I need to put it back in the box, it's been sitting there for almost 2 years now, lol.
I'll sell it cheap to anyone that wants to try and play with it. (I also have an RT.X100 card as well)
here is a review of the card, REVIEW: Matrox RT.X2 - Studio Daily

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GTX 670 full price was like $400

Then R9 290 was a bit above $400

Now I'm looking at getting a R9 390x around $400.....
 
My most expensive video card was the R9 295x2 for $580. Going to be awhile before I get rid of this sucker.
 
Most expensive single card is my 980 Ti Classy at $720 shipped direct from eVGA.

Most expensive overall setup was my pair of 3Dfx V2 12MB ($500 total) and Elsa Synergy II TNT2 32MB (another $250)...fuck a duck $750 for THAT.
 
The EVGA 980Ti Classy, I ordered it today. It's replacing my SLI 780s, beat them by almost $100.
 
To date, EVGA 980TI Classified a month ago. Previously was a XFX 7970 at release.
 
$500 on an 8 800 gtx
$650 on a 980ti
$360 on a ti4600
$380 on a 2gb 5870 eyefinity 6 card

that is depressing
 
Most expensive card I ever bought was my ASUS R9 290 that was $418. But the price didn't impact my wallet too bad, I timed my purchase perfectly as this was right before the bitcoin thing drove amd prices through the roof. I was able to sell my 7950 on ebay for over $400, so the upgrade was a no-brainer, as I only wanted the card for gaming. The day after I ordered my 290 the prices jumped nearly $100 and was sold out constantly for the next 6 months.
 
I think the most I paid was on my Asus 680 GTX's DCUII's . I want to say they were about 600 a piece at launch. Great cards, still using them in SLI.
 
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