new graphics card (going to buy one soon)

[nvening]

ATI and nVidia don't have competitors, so they can charge whatever they like. Where else are you going to go?

ATI is Nvidias competitor Nvidia is ATIs competitor is Nvidia, simple.

[nvening]

Intel is the largest supplier of graphics and have been for a while.

But they are not real graphixs!!!

[Son of a gun]

ATI is Nvidias competitor Nvidia is ATIs competitor is Nvidia, simple.

They could be a little more competition however Matrox aren't bad

[oralpain]

Matrox makes some good cards, but they are far too niche to compete with ATI, NVIDIA, or Intel. Matorx has no crap cards for the masses and no good gaming cards.

Personally I want to see PowerVR make a comeback, I had one of their Kyro IIs when it came out, was pritty good at the time.

[tom deloford]

Yea, I loved my powerVR card, infact my power vr website is still up 7 years after I last updated it, I lost the username and password!!! Lol..

[oralpain]

Umm, you lost your password to your own web site and have not been able to get to it in 7 years?

Isn't there anyone you can call to get the password. Someone has to be paying for it...

[mobo]

o.k i'm thinking of geting a new graphics soon at the mo i got a 9800 pro, but i was thinking of geting this mainley becasue my 9800 pro was made by the same people, comments or other recomandacions (sp) ??

SO what did u get in the end?

[Insomniac]

I haven't been online for a while, but I couldn't let some of these go!

I doubt you earn more than me, but if you do earn my monthly salary in an hour then you must be a multi millionaire, in which case what the hell are you doing moaning about paying 300quid for a gfx card.

Don't doubt it, it's probably true even with the British/Australian currency conversion, but anyway it was you that brought salaries into this debate, and yes it is childish as Iranu hypocritically stated.

As far as being a multi millionaire, regardless of whether I am or not doesn't mean I needless throw my money away. How do you think a lot of millionaires got that way? It wasn't by updating their video card every year.


Anyway, if you guys think a video card is worth paying that much, throw your money away, I couldn't care less.

Companies will always charge as much as they can, and the less competition there is the more they charge. It's competition that drives the price down, and that means more than two major competitors. (And I don't mean onboard or specialist graphics either)

If you guys don't understand how basic market forces work then you may be happier if you moved to a socialist or communist country where you don't have to think or question and everything is regimented.