The 2012 how much do you spend on your graphics card poll!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

What price brackets are important for Hexus members??

[Terbinator]

I've spent over £150 for an MSI Cyclone around September 2010 - all my others have been ~£150.

[Hicks12]

all my GPU have been under £200, generally they are around the £100 mark....

ATI 9600XT (£50, included in pc upgrade....)
7900 something, believe i paid £65
8800GTS 512mb, paid £175... wish i went for the gt tbh, most expensive card i ever bought!
9800GTX - Won on hexus
ati 4850- to reduce power usage and perform better than the 9800, cost £5 after trading it in(would have been £105)
GTX 460 - £130 or £140, bought of a member here, was like a month after the 460 released.

Next card, fed up with mid range card and after trying SLI 460 i didnt like it at all... single card all the way so since i left myself £350 from my pc build budget (upgrading to sandybridge was cheap!) i will be getting a high end card this time, like the 7950 or gtx780 but again it depends entirely if i can be bothered/ need it, been busy with work and uni that i havent played a game in two months . Maybe able to skip this gen and get the 8000 or 800 series next year

[DannyM]

I always spend £100+ on a new card. It's quite annoying really especially when you can get a console for a similar price

[Pilgrim_uk]

About £100 as well for the last 5 years, X850xt off my mate for £100. Been lucky my last 2 cards have been freebies, 8800gt 256 and then a 8800gt 512. The only thing I had to pay for the 512mb was a silencer kit. Now its time to upgrade it's a shock to the system to put hand in pocket.

I quite fancied a silenced HD6850 one of the folks on this forum recommended. Its coming in about £130 so might wait till it comes down. First card that isn't second hand in 5 years.

[jim]

I think all of mine have been about £200.

7800GS for AGP, £215
8800 GTS 320, £210
Crossfire 4870s, £150
4870X2 (Secondhand), £120
5870 (Secondhand), £220
GTX570, approx £250

[Hoonigan]

Started with an 8400GS, as I had no intention of gaming.
Then moved to an 8800GT, which cost me £130.
Then moved to 2x GTX260 SLI which was around £210 per card.
Then I got a 4890, which I sent back not long after cos the drivers were hideous.
Then got a GTX275 for £160
And now I'm running a GTX580 which cost me £390.

[MadduckUK]

what is the 50-150 there for?

[kicker56]

£100 - £150 seems to be a nice (for me) price for a good performance card to run most modern HD games acceptably, the £200 mark seems to run ultra on everything, which is nice if you absolutly must have it running on ultra settings.

[kalniel]

What price brackets are important for Hexus members??

Same question as last time. Over what time period?

I generally spend about £30 a year I guess.

[Saracen]

Varies. Have spent a lot on the past. More recently (last few years), I'm FAR more restrained. And the last one was £0, as I was given it by a friend (who knows who he is, and is a member here, so I won't name him) because he didn't want it any more and I was about to buy something of that sort of spec. If I was to buy, it'd be somewhere around the £100 mark, or possibly quite a bit less, depending on what machine it was for. Mind you, most of my machines are so old I'd probably be a bit pushed to find anyone still selling a card that would actually fit in the slots those motherboards have.

[jigger]

For me the cards that are the most interesting are the Uber high end and what offers the most performance for the pound. Its easy for me to spend £200-£300 on a card if the performance @ 1920x1200 is 60+ FPS in the games I play.

[EvanJackPenn]

I'd be looking at (currently) a 560Ti/6950 which are £150-£200, but I'd probably be willing to edge over if there's a good enough reason - say if the 660/7870 is £210.

[Pete301]

I spent £180 on my last gfx card, the GeForce 8800GTS 320MB.

Before that I had a Geforce 6600GT, donated to me by my brother for about £60 or so, that was a while ago though.

Going back even further I think I had a radeon 9 series, I think it was the 9100.

Then my very first graphics card was a GeForce 2 Ti.

I hope to spend just under £200 on a 7870 (fingers crossed). As you can see I don't tend to upgrade too often .

[whobi]

My 5450 cost £25- bought purely out of necessity as i'm incompetent and didn't know that my mobo didn't have integrated graphics. Maplin were all too happy to relieve me of my cash.

[Ulti]

Recently my purchases were a 5570 (last graphics card for myself), HD3000 IGP (current graphics card for myself) and a 6570 (for future for myself) and for my brother it was a 4670, which is now a 4770. All of these cost less than £50. I have owned a 5850 and 6850 though and perhaps some others that I don't remember.