Is there any end in sight?

[josh6079]

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: nitromullet

Is there any end in sight?

Not as far as I can tell...

Absolutely . . . buy an Xbox360 or PS3 . . . you can still have great gaming without the PC.
:Q

That's what I gather the industry is leading towards anyways. Why dump so much r&d into a GPU that will really only have a shelf life of about 8 months to a little over a year when you could join up with Microsoft or Sony or Nintendo and make a product that will sell more and last about 4 years? In the end, we're all just guniea pigs that coporations test to see where the best money is. Most of us are too knowledgable buyers and are harder to get ripped off, that's why they like those who want something that plugs into a socket and does everthing else for them.

 

[Dethfrumbelo]

It'll end when everyone goes broke, which isn't too far off.

 

[Powermoloch]

My money, my choice

My time to play some games with 4AA/16AF baby !!!

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: BassBomb
midrange ftw, you get a part that outperforms last generations top end, much less power consumption, much less price.. midrange cards come out twice as long as the high end (over a year before 6600GT got replaced by 7600GT)

well over a year wasn't it?

At least, it seems like that...

 

[Vallybally]

LOL, wow just wow. Here is the answer you are looking for. Just know you may need a new case...Bitchin' fast! 3D 2000

 

[coldpower27]

Originally posted by: ShadowOfMyself
You cant really bash GPUs, because you get exactly what you pay for... the same cant be said for CPUs... a 1000$ FX-62 is what... 20-25% faster than a 500$ X2 5000+? At least with Gpus, a 500$ card usually IS 2x faster than a 250$ one.. actually.. a 330$ x1900xt is almost 2x faster than a 250$ 7900GT... thats more than double what you pay for... so stop complaining

Aren't you streteching the truth just a tad, unless you hand pick a scenario that heavily favor the X1900 XT, you would only see 50% in a few scenarios and lower on average then that.

 

[Zenoth]

In what, about 3 billion years, when the Sun turns into a Red Giant (sadly, it has not enough mass to turn into a Supernova per say) and desintegrates more than half of the Solar System's planets while making Pluto a sphere of melted rock, I believe it should be the end indeed.

Before that, well, if humanity manage not to destroy itself, we at least have that much time on our hands to make it stop.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: hmorphone
Insanity has overtaken us. It suddenly occurred to me that the video card market is out of control. How have we gotten to this point?

The evidence:

1) Many high end cards have doubled in price compared to what we used to pay.

2) Many high end cards have doubled in power consumption from what we used to see and are reportedly close to increasing again.

3) Many high end cards have doubled in noise from what we used to see and need an after market cooling solution to lower the noise.

4) Many high end cards have doubled in heat from what we used to see, and some of them don't run cool even with after market cooling solutions (short of watercooing.)

5) It is now considered a swell idea to cram 2 to 4 gpus into a single rig, thereby making items 1 thru 4 much worse.

6) The most popular mid to high end card is tarnished with stories of some users having to RMA two or three times.

7) Other common mid to high end cards are often referred to as leaf blowers.

8) The two most popular after market cooling solutions come down to a choice between potentially inadequate performance or superglueing your cooler to your ram, and both exhaust the heat back inside our boxes. (see #4)

9) Some manufacturers are now considering cramming even more gpus in our box for physics processing purposes. (see #5)

10) Our cards are now often sporting higher transistor counts than our cpus, and are outdated quicker than our cpus.

Sigh...:disgust:

do what im doing.

sell up and buy a xbox 360. c'mon we can go down the BB and buy at the same time!