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    22 14.67%
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  • £150 to £200

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  • £200 to £300

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  • If it ain't on my motherboard it isn't worth considering!!

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    Re: How much do you usually spend on your gaming graphics card??

    The most I've ever spent was 400 quid on a S3 Vision 968 - and it didn't even have any 3D acceleration (it was a professional card with certified drivers and the best option for multi platform use at that point - it even supported multimonitor if you had two of the cards! A month later the Matrox Millenium came out and did more for half the price..)

    Next was probably a Voodoo2 almost on launch day and then two fanless Fatal1ty 7600GTs for silent multi monitor at 100 quid each. My refurb 8800GTX was only 50 quid off ebay.

    When I upgrade I expect to pay in the region of 150 to 200 quid, so I can run recent games at top resolution. Currently have too many games to play through. Fallout 3 and Gothic 3 are probably the most graphically intensive games I have, and I've not even taken them out of shrinkwrap.

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    Re: How much do you usually spend on your gaming graphics card??

    It seems that around 80% of people polled would not spend more than £200 on a graphics card and that over half would only spend a maximum of £150.

    This means that cards like the HD5850 and above will not be considered by most users and the same goes with Nvidia Fermi unless there are cards under £200.

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    Re: How much do you usually spend on your gaming graphics card??

    I've went through phases. First proper gaming PC that I built, bought an 8800gt for £110. Then next PC I bought a 4850 for £125. After that I went a bit mad, i7 PC and SSD etc spent £250 on a GTX280, which at the time was a bargain. I'm now back to using a 4850 and will upgrade later in the year. But I'm quite happy spending between £200-£300. Though I wouldn't really go over that, it then becomes a bit too much for one component.

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    Re: How much do you usually spend on your gaming graphics card??

    I've bought about 3 cards in 10 years. All between £50-100.

    I need a passively cooled one.

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    Re: How much do you usually spend on your gaming graphics card??

    Quote Originally Posted by computertechy View Post
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    1'st post, Hi everyone
    hiya....welcome.. now get the tea on and leave your wallet out.. I need a new card

    Quote Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
    "The second you aren't paying attention to the tool you're using, it will take your fingers from you. It does not know sympathy." |
    "If you don't gaffer it, it will gaffer you" | "Belt and braces"

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    Re: How much do you usually spend on your gaming graphics card??

    Quote Originally Posted by Zak33 View Post
    hiya....welcome.. now get the tea on and leave your wallet out.. I need a new card
    At least you have an HD4870 1GB!

    The Moose only has an HD4830 512MB!!

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    Re: How much do you usually spend on your gaming graphics card??

    I bought that HD 5870 Vapor-X. £350 of graphic goodness.

    Less than an hour later it was out of stock again!

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    Re: How much do you usually spend on your gaming graphics card??

    Lets see if we can get upto 150 votes!

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    Re: How much do you usually spend on your gaming graphics card??

    The last one I bought was an AGP XFX 6800 Ultra just as they came out at about £385.

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    Re: How much do you usually spend on your gaming graphics card??

    well i had to do an emergency upgrade(ish) as my 8800gts started to fail last week. managed to get a good deal on a brand spanking new xfx 4870 1gb rev.2 (egg) for just £80+vat.


    thought it was a bit of a bargin, well compared to my gts which was nigh on £200 when i bought it. my max is usually £200 and look at whats available with features i want - don't matter n/v or ati. but as i'm gonna do a major upgrade towards end of year early next so didn't see the point of going overboard at this point in time.

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    Re: How much do you usually spend on your gaming graphics card??

    £100 to £150 for me. My GTX 260 should last at least another two years easy enough for me.

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    Re: How much do you usually spend on your gaming graphics card??

    Before I bought my new system I was always around the under £100 mark. However with the new system I got it with a GTX 480, a significant bump from my last ATI HD 4670, lol. A bit much for my needs maybe, but it all worked out to be at my budget. So I thought, what the hell.

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    Re: How much do you usually spend on your gaming graphics card??

    the most i've spent is £200. but i don't think i'll spend that much again.

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    Re: How much do you usually spend on your gaming graphics card??

    Max I spent was ~£380 back in 2007 for a EVGA 8800GTX - although it lasted me 18 months ( and could have lasted me longer in all honestly) I remember feeling sick as I pressed the buy button.

    Normally aim at keeping it below £300 unless there's a mega deal on offer. Last few purchases, from memory:

    6800 GT £280 '04
    1900 XTX £265 '06
    8800 GTX £379 '07
    GTX 280 £229 '09

    Jeez, could have paid off my mortgage if it wasn't for computer hardware!

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    Re: How much do you usually spend on your gaming graphics card??

    Because i rarely upgrade, i tend to buy cards which are £200 or a bit over as i expect to use it for 2-3 years maybe even longer if i can get good enough configs so the games i want to play can run on it .

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    Re: How much do you usually spend on your gaming graphics card??

    Usually I spend <£150, but this time I made an exception for the GTX 460s, because they really seemed worth the extra cost to me.

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