Quote Originally Posted by Just learnin' View Post
I did that with the 8800 Ultra and it was $1,000.00 Canadian at the time. I was into overclocking and hwbot back then and it was excellent fun. It was a fairly long lived card as far as benchmarking was concerned, played games really well too.
I think the 8800 Ultra was the most overpriced Graphic Card ever. Even more than GTX 280 for $650 was.

The Ultra was mainly higher clocked 8800 GTX for which I paid 600 CAD also not cheap but great card for the time. It's hard to believe that somebody was happy to pay 1000 CAD for the 8800 Ultra and I believe very few people did even buy that card.

I paid 700 CAD for the HD 5970, also overpriced but mainly due to the vendors price gouging and AMD not supplying enough of the cards to retail. The MSRP for the the HD 5970 is (or was) 599 USD.