PCI-E SSDs have been over the 1k barrier for some time now. And workstation/enterprise class drives have always been crazy expensive... but they've shown up in desktops from time to time as well. The MSRP of the Titan should be $999, it should not be any lower. Titan was never truly a gaming card, it's a cheap GPU compute card that also happens to play games just fine. If you're buying it for gaming, you're not actually using the features of it that make it a steal at $999 compared to say a tesla. Now you can build a "gaming desktop" and load it up with Titan, PCI-E SSD, hardware RAID card to intel SSD 730s, and an EE CPU... and it will game just fine just fine and be a great box. However you aren't using any of these things to their max potential. Every single item, even the Titan, is being wasted.
A lot of these products are prosumer rather than consumer. They are workstation class items with some features intact, some missing, sold at price points firmly between consumer and professional gear. There's really nothing wrong with their price point. Geforce, Titan, Quadro, Tesla are all targeting different groups, and the price goes up reasonably for their intended usage model.
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