- Joined
- Dec 1, 2007
- Location
- Near Toronto Canada
Poor British people,
This is from the CPUID website, and is a recent article regarding the Nvidia 9600GT
http://www.cpuid.com/vvikoo_9600gt.php
"The Geforce 9600GT is definitely a very good deal, and offers the best ratio performance / price at the moment. The boosted version proposed by Vvikoo makes even better, and provides almost the same performance as a 8800GT at a lower price. The 9600GT Turbo is priced around 180€ (the ZF-1000 alone is priced around 45€), whereas the cheapest 8800GT is around 210€."
In other words, an 8800GT is 210 pound sterling.
That is FOUR HUNDRED dollars folks! (Canadian and US hardware prices are equal now so this applies to US and Canadian people)
And this is a current article too.
The 8800GT frequently goes on sale here for $99 and the most expensive I've ever seen it is $199-- when it came out last year! That's half the price the brits are paying-- and as mentioned that's the cheapest they see it-- 210 pounds.
That's horrible.
Also obscene-- notice the extremely nice Zalman HSF assembly on the card is quoted at 45 pounds.
A hundred dollars for the THERMAL SOLUTION on an air cooled video card?
What planet is this on?
Apparently all over Europe, electronics prices are similarly rediculous.
When I was in Spain recently, my cousin, who is a techie, was asking me what various items are going for. When I told him NAND flash memory was under $5/Gigabyte, he didn't believe me. Its still at $20 there. Yes that's right. $20. 1GB of flash memory.
Can you imagine a $40 2GB USB key? Apparently they can't imagine an $8 2GB USB key... I can go buy one right now though.
When he came to visit in 2006 he ended up buying all kinds of expansion cards, an IPOD, a creative ZEN, because the prices were "just too good".
When he first asked me how much it was for an IPOD nano (this is in 2006), he didn't believe me. He kept going "Ok come on, seriously".
When I pulled up the website to show him he was like "Get in the car we're going right now"
This is from the CPUID website, and is a recent article regarding the Nvidia 9600GT
http://www.cpuid.com/vvikoo_9600gt.php
"The Geforce 9600GT is definitely a very good deal, and offers the best ratio performance / price at the moment. The boosted version proposed by Vvikoo makes even better, and provides almost the same performance as a 8800GT at a lower price. The 9600GT Turbo is priced around 180€ (the ZF-1000 alone is priced around 45€), whereas the cheapest 8800GT is around 210€."
In other words, an 8800GT is 210 pound sterling.
That is FOUR HUNDRED dollars folks! (Canadian and US hardware prices are equal now so this applies to US and Canadian people)
And this is a current article too.
The 8800GT frequently goes on sale here for $99 and the most expensive I've ever seen it is $199-- when it came out last year! That's half the price the brits are paying-- and as mentioned that's the cheapest they see it-- 210 pounds.
That's horrible.
Also obscene-- notice the extremely nice Zalman HSF assembly on the card is quoted at 45 pounds.
A hundred dollars for the THERMAL SOLUTION on an air cooled video card?
What planet is this on?
Apparently all over Europe, electronics prices are similarly rediculous.
When I was in Spain recently, my cousin, who is a techie, was asking me what various items are going for. When I told him NAND flash memory was under $5/Gigabyte, he didn't believe me. Its still at $20 there. Yes that's right. $20. 1GB of flash memory.
Can you imagine a $40 2GB USB key? Apparently they can't imagine an $8 2GB USB key... I can go buy one right now though.
When he came to visit in 2006 he ended up buying all kinds of expansion cards, an IPOD, a creative ZEN, because the prices were "just too good".
When he first asked me how much it was for an IPOD nano (this is in 2006), he didn't believe me. He kept going "Ok come on, seriously".
When I pulled up the website to show him he was like "Get in the car we're going right now"
