Club 3D HD 3850 Overclocked Edition - A luxurious enthustiast card for low budgets

[Mungri]

No chance you could get the same price for a video card 12 months down the road. The stellar price will mix in with everything else. thats it.

£70 isnt the usuall price of a 3850 right now, £100 is, these are just cheaper now then they ought to be, hence why I doubt they will depriciate much beyond £70. Look at this card as actually having a retail worth of £100 right now, just that it it is being sold for £30 less then the current asking price for such a card.

The only thing that would make them depriciate more then £70 is if either ATI or Nvidia release a low-mid range card for the £70-80 price point that outperforms this one, and going from how pooey mid range cards at this price point usually are, I doubt this would happen.

When I bought my 3870 in february, I still managed to sell my 2 year old X1900 xtx for £95. There are people out there on ebay that dont mind paying for second hand cards, or they dont have a clue about what they are buying XD. 3870's are selling for £80-90 second hand right now. The thing is that high end cards lose a lot of value when the next ranges are released, but the mid range cards depreciate a lot less in comparison.

The market for upgrading and selling second hand is huge, I have been managing to get upgrades at next to nothing for a while now from buying new and selling old