GPU - Old vs. New Price Discussions

Guys seem to be stuck on how much graphics cards used to cost new.

It’s like telling me that petrol today is too much compared to a decade ago.
 
johnjm said:
Guys seem to be stuck on how much graphics cards used to cost new.

It’s like telling me that petrol today is too much compared to a decade ago.
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Noo we are talking about when a second hand card cost about the same as a new card with similar performance
 
johnjm said:
Guys seem to be stuck on how much graphics cards used to cost new.

It’s like telling me that petrol today is too much compared to a decade ago.
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The fact that I could probably sell my 3 year old cards for more then I bought them for.
 
Lupus said:
The fact that I could probably sell my 3 year old cards for more then I bought them for.
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Yeah, If I bought petrol a decade ago and kept it and it somehow stayed good, I could sell it for more than I paid for today.

But I see what the guys are referring to, new card vs old with same performance. The 1080 cards are just power hungry.
 
johnjm said:
Yeah, If I bought petrol a decade ago and kept it and it somehow stayed good, I could sell it for more than I paid for today.

But I see what the guys are referring to, new card vs old with same performance. The 1080 cards are just power hungry.
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A 3 year old card should not cost more then it did new.
Also good luck using that ten year old petrol.
 
Lupus said:
A 3 year old card should not cost more then it did new.
Also good luck using that ten year old petrol.
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Why? Have you seen the prices of cards lately?

Although cards seem to be priced based on thei mining capability, not gaming performance.
 
johnjm said:
Guys seem to be stuck on how much graphics cards used to cost new.

It’s like telling me that petrol today is too much compared to a decade ago.
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I got my Vega 56 in 2019 for R3500, same card goes for 9k-10k easily now.
 
Hmm ... I actually had to check ... this is the hardware bargains thread and not gpu thread
 
Just looked at my wootware invoice from Jan 2017 - rx480 4gb cost R7.5K :eek: - that is to say if you asked me I would’ve said it cost a lot less than that

Edit: That was for 2 of them :X3:
 
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_kabal_ said:
Just looked at my wootware invoice from Jan 2017 - rx480 4gb cost R7.5K :eek: - that is to say if you asked me I would’ve said it cost a lot less than that

Edit: That was for 2 of them :X3:
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I was going to say, a buddy bought an RX480 in 2017 and it was only about R3700 or so.
 
Saba'a said:
Hmm ... I actually had to check ... this is the hardware bargains thread and not gpu thread
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johnjm said:
Yeah, If I bought petrol a decade ago and kept it and it somehow stayed good, I could sell it for more than I paid for today.

But I see what the guys are referring to, new card vs old with same performance. The 1080 cards are just power hungry.
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Depreciation!
 
airborne said:
What addon are you using to get that price graph?
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I am actually working on my own chrome extension and is currently busy adding more SA stores.

It is not publicly available yet but if anyone wants to try it out they can get it here:
chrome.google.com

Scrapy - Chrome Web Store

Scrapy is a website and browser extension that allows users to track the price history of products on various South African stores.
chrome.google.com chrome.google.com

I would appreciate any feedback or recommendations on stores to add
 
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