you can get a top of the line video card for about 500-600.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShaDovV RyDer
Printable View
you can get a top of the line video card for about 500-600.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShaDovV RyDer
Quote:
Originally Posted by BananaMan
You don't even need to spend that much.. and I really don't think they are 600 dollars.
I have a 9700 PRO still and HL2 looks amazing!
i have a 6800 ultra. cheapest i found online was like 549.99Quote:
Originally Posted by Bakeman
lol, yeah they do the 500% markup on top of the line cards. I bought a 9700 Pro a few weeks after they were released from ATI and it was $350 and tops was about $400 on them. Its pretty pathertic that these companies are charging upto $700 for hardware thats costing them well under $100 to produce. I thought it was bad at $400 its totally out of hand now.Quote:
Originally Posted by BananaMan
I may just skip the PC video card and grab an Xbox Next PC if I can't get a very good card for around $250 that I can overclock the hell out of.
Heck, those cards aren't even THAT much better then my ($250) 9800 NP @ XT speeds are they? I run DIII at just under 1280 x 1024 with everything but AA turned all the way up and HL2 runs beautifully at those settings (much better then DIII) with no slowdown.
I don't see the benifit of $700 video cards. I know things are pretty crazy when a card first comes out, but the x800 and 6800 ultra have been out for a while haven't they?
as ppl above said, its prolyl to cut costs... im glad ill have a job by then...
You people don't even know how much this is gonna affect Halo 3.....