New Ultra High End Price Point With GeForce 8800 Ultra

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• redbone75 - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - link

  You meant we will not "accept" them;)

• redbone75 - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - link

  But anywho, I completely agree with you. I just built a complete rig for a buddy of mine for barely more than that. And I mean, complete, he needed everything from monitor (Samsung 941BW) to keyboard and mouse and speakers(7.1). Core 2 Duo based (E6320 on a Gigabyte DS3, 2 gigs of Corsair DDR2 800, 320GB hdd, X1900 GT). All for under $1100 USD after rebates. Not a gaming rig for sure, but a respectable system nonetheless. Even if I had the money I wouldn't see any justification in buying an $830 card that offered only marginal gains over it's less expensive sibling.

• kmmatney - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - link

  What do you mean not a gaming rig? You can game fine on that, the video card can handle native resolution for most games. I game with a slightly lesser system than that.

• strikeback03 - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - link

  If you buy a Ferrari and don't crash it, you can probably resell in 5 years for 80% or more of the cost new. Try that with a video card.

• Sunrise089 - Thursday, May 3, 2007 - link

  Please look up exotic car prices. You will find you do NOT get an 80% return on anything other than a few tiny examples of cars that were generally unavailable at the time of their initial offerings. Also note that when you take advantage of the gouging to non-established customers of exotic cars, the depreciation will often be even more than adds would appear to indicate, as the orginal paid-for price may have been much higher than MSRP.

• strikeback03 - Thursday, May 3, 2007 - link

  the "few tiny examples" are the ones that appreciate, such as the Enzo. If you were one of the 399 that bought one from the factory for around $650k, you now have a car worth over a million, and likely to keep heading up as dumb comedians crash them. Something relatively common though, such as a 355 from 10 years ago, is still worth over 50% of new (assuming you bought one through a dealer, not paid extra to get one immediately). Even NSXs from the early 90s are still worth $25-35k. And judging by the current market, even in 20-30 years, the Ferrari will still have some value because it is a Ferrari, independant of actual performance relative to current models. Any computer hardware, unless extremely limited production so that it is a collectors item, will be essentially worthless by the time it is 3 or 4 generations old.

• coldpower27 - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - link

  There is a difference in the pace of advancement between these 2 industries a new Ferrari from 2003 is not so much inferior compared to the Ferrari from 2008 perse.
  
  You can barely compare video cards that are 5 years apart. If the pace of advancement was slower video cards would hold their value longer as well.
  
  

• ss284 - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - link

  Voodoo 5 6000

• swaaye - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - link

  Except that V5 6000 was never released to consumer retail and thus it's incredibly rare. So its value is just due to obscurity.

• Samus - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - link

  looks like teh sux0rs.
  
  unfortunately, ATI still doesn't have anything that can touch any of the 8800's :(