apoppin
Lifer
Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
Originally posted by: apoppin
Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
Maybe it's just me but I wish that $500+ video cards did not exist.
You can't be serious ... within a year the midrange beats the ultra as the technology trickles down
i think you mean 'i wish that the high end was not priced so high.'
-i wish there were $10,000 video cards -- that were worth it
The point I'm trying to make is $500 on a video card is not worth it given the life cycle of these cards. From a personal standpoint anyway.
Back in the day, the top of the line cards barely came up to $400 and hovered around $350ish which is today's midrange prices. New cards didn't show up all that often either. Today it's like every 6 months your $500 card is slow. Slow is a relative term though and I'm not implying that the cards perform poorly just because they are no longer top of the line. I guess what I'm saying is, I would like to see prices not be so steep and the power requirements and heat to go down not up. It seems like video cards get bigger, take more power, and run hotter while CPUs get smaller, take less power and run cooler.
and CPUs pretty much stay the same ... heck, it is only now the dual core is useful in gaming and a CPU of 3 years ago can be paired with a high-end GPU of today with good results ... i think the GPU cycle gives you a lot more then CPU cycle ... especially if you are a gamer. And CPUs are only NOW getting smaller and cooler - as we move to more cores and more cache ... now game devs need to learn to use the CPU's growing power in gaming.
and i don't think anyone who bought a GTX or GTS last November will agree about the shortness of the cycle ... already they are itching for G92 and even more gaming performance for DX10.
and what i am trying to say i wish there was a GPU worth ten thousand dollars ... within a couple of years it'd be in the midrange