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Originally Posted by Aplytos i never said Amd is innocent in this. they both steadily inflated the price with every generation over the last couple of years.
the thing is when is this going to stop? the salaries have remained mostly the same in the last 10 years or so.
lets take this to something else. lets say cars. if you check the prices for cars in the same category from 10 years ago they are roughly the same |
It's going to stop when Titans don't sell out everywhere and people don't have thousands to throw at gaming computers. But, as we become more PC dependant, people will want better performance and be willing to throw more money at it.
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Originally Posted by BootlegUsher I'm disappointed that graphics cards are costing this much these days. I am looking to upgrade, and the last time I bought a video card it was the radeon 5850, which was the second best card you could get at the time, for $280. The 5870 cost like $330. $330-550 is one hell of a jump. |
5870x2 was the most expensive card, you got the third best for $280. 7950 is the third best and costs $310 or so right now. Not that big of a difference. Classic nostalgia-itis maybe
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Originally Posted by Aplytos yeah it is amd to blame aswell but even if amd had an answer and the cards were sold for 500$ thats still a lot. |
So you want a card that is competitive, but costs less than $500 and offers good value... Sounds like a 7970GE
If you want AMD to "compete", you want AMD to launch more high end cards then. That means MORE $500+ video cards. Is that what you actually want? Or do you want AMD to keep doing what it is doing and Nvidia to launch less high end....