Go on record now- What is fair in video card pricing?

[BenSkywalker]

I figured we could get some ideas on what people consider fair pricing for video cards. I'm not looking for what you would spend on a vid card, but what type of formula you think would be fair.

For instance, I think that if BitBoys Glaze3D were to show up tomorrow and push 200FPS in Quake3 1600x1200 32bit 4x FSAA everything cranked and they wanted $1000 it wouldn't be an unfair price. The performance rift between it and what is currently available makes 3x to 5x the cost seem small by comparison.

Obviously there are other factors, IQ, feature support etc, how would you weight those choices also?

For example, the above mentioned Glaze has all the latest/upcoming feature support, but offers no jump in current game visuals and has sub par 2D above 1024x768, would that impact your decission?

Clearly the performance is completely unrealistic(16x12x32x4@200FPS) for anything in the near future, just trying to get an idea of what you would consider fair pricing🙂

 

[DefRef]

Why are you even mentioning Glaze? BitBoys are more vapor than the Ghostbusters storage facility.

What's fair? Whatever they can get!

Face it, no one's got a gun to anyone's head to buy any video card at any price/performance point. The market will reward those who hit the sweet spot and punish those who don't.

If GF3 rocks da heeowss, but costs $600, only the hardest of the hardcore will pony up. I'm getting nearly 100fps at 1024x768x32 with all eye candy on in Q3; I've average ~70fps in UT WITH the compressed textures on a GeForce 2! How much faster do I NEED to go?

I paid $320 about 10 months ago for it and it still runs everything REAL FAST. For me, the bragging rights are not worth a sum almost equal to my rent and car payment.

If someone wants to pay the freight, more power to them. Remember all the people yelling, "3dfx 0wn3rZ j00!!! V5-6000!!!! $600 is a bargain!"? Where are they now?