Re: Would You Pay $600 for a Graphics Card?

I'm not sure why $600 for a video card is considered "outrageously
expensive". I guess it's all relative. People spend loads of money on
things to attain better performance. Orders of magnitude of money is spent
on things like audio equipment, musical instruments, sports cars, etc. all
the time for diminishing returns in search of top performance. In
comparison to these examples, a $600 graphics card probably offers more of
an actual performance increase compared to a video card that is in sweet
spot of price vs. performance.

Also remember that in 1998, many gamers rushed out and bought two 3Dfx
Voodoo 2 cards for SLI that also cost exactly $600 in total. And that's
doesn't take into account those aren't inflation adjusted dollars.


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