Poll: What's the maximum you would pay for a video card?

[sciencewhiz]

I wouldn't spend more than $200 dollars for a card unless it has exceptional 2d and 3d quality. I might be willing to spend $300 on the G800 or some other next gen card.

 

[Semper Fi]

$200 max for me.

Never paid more than $125 for one yet though.

 

[Soccerman]

Max of $200 Canadian, unless I become rich or something..

 

[Trashman]

Paid $200.00 for my G400MAX, had it over a year now, so I gotta say that was a pretty good investment...probably would pay 200-250 max for the new G800 if it's as good as they say it will be.

 

[downhiller80]

NV16? ANyone care to enlighten me I think I missed out!

The GF2U is an NV15BR if that's what you meant

Seb

 

[snow patrol]

<< The GF2U is an NV15BR if that's what you meant >>

Oh, sorry I'm sure I've seen it called the NV16 numerous times around here, but yes, I did mean the Ultra.

 

[BFG10K]

No more than $150 for me. A GF2 MX is an excellent board for the price/perfomance ratio.

 

[RagingGuardian]

No more than $250, period.

 

[Davegod75]

$200ish

 

[Doomsday]

I wouldn't pay over $150 right now because I don't make much money at all, but once I become a multi-millionaire I'll pay whatever it's worth. If it where worth $2000 I'd pay it.

 

[vulejo]

same with me - $150 max for a nice MX
computing power grows exponentially, so to me there's not much point in paying twice as much (or more for u freaks out there ) for a bit of performance premium.

spending $150 to upgrade vid card every year will definately get u a better card than spending $300 and use it for two years. besides, who needs 80fps at 1280x1024? when u run out of fps due to more demanding software, its time to run out and get a new card!

if a good enough cpu cost $100 (think duron), a good enough vid card shouldnt cost much more than that. also bear in mind game developers try to design games to run nicely on a slightly above average computer.

so, unless u have an 21&quot; monitor and absolutely needs to run games at 1600x1200 and u are filthy rich,i dont think theres any reason to spend $300 on a vid card...
but if u ARE filthy rich u should donate it to the poor and needy

anyways, there's my 2 cents. same rule applies to cpus for me...

 

[Linh]

$150

 

[Adul]

The price of an MX

 

[prontospyder]

$170

 

[JellyBaby]

$350 here but I buy only once every 1.5 - 2 years.

 

[Mday]

$250 which includes vivo and tv features...

 

[LXi]

$200 absolutely max. I dont really need extra features but dual head/twin view are worth my consideration.

 

[hans007]

i'd say 150 max normally. The only reason i have a v5 is that i got a free geforce ddr from a contact and traded it.

 

[ERJ]

Another $150.....at least for a home PC.

For a work CAD / Pro E station then sub $1000 would be a good deal.

ERJ

 

[BoberFett]

I wouldn't spend more than $150 on any single component, much less a video card.

 

[Quickfingerz]

Depending on the features, $600. It would need to be able to easily capture in DVD quality with it's 16 mb capture buffer and give me 85 fps at 1600x1200 32bbp at 8x FSAA with a game using 128 mb textures.

For a normal video card, $300.

 

[403Forbidden]

i'd pay like $600-$700

 

[Pretender]

I've never paid over $69 for a video card (My current one, Diamond Monster Fusion - uses 3dfx banshee chipset, is the current top score leader), and I feel insulted that I'm forced to choose $80 on that poll because it's the lowest. I still get 60fps in UT, I'm happy. One of these days I'll break down and get some nice $150-200 card, but my life needs much more important things then some piece of equipment which will be obsolete in a month when Voodoo or Nvidia decide that they need a few hundred million more dollars to pay for that new island they just bought in the pacific so they come up with a better card.

 

[Xenon14]

You people are diseased. $300+ on a video card?! As if your eyeballs could detect 90fps vs. 130fps. The Video card makers should put in a small bug in their drivers that displays 100fps on any game that runs above 30fps...just to satisfy your hunger. If you dont' own a couple of lexuses, or work professionally, there is no need to get $300+ cards, when u could upgrade slightly every year or so.....save a lot more money and sustain optimal performance.

 

[FatFree]

$200 max