Quote Originally Posted by Movieman View Post
My personal feeling that the "right" price would be $500-600 for the 970 and add a $150 premium for the unlocked XE models.

No,no where near that much.
Systems:
SR2 rig: Investment of maybe $2500.00
There are factors in that as the board,case,memory and PSU were given to me.
Dual 24 core AMD MC system: $750.00
The cpu's were a gift, an unexpected one.
Dual Westmere:$2000.00
Board was a review sample
Sammy: Maybe $300.00 total
New 6 core Intel I just built;board,cpu and memory arrived in a box 2 weeks ago as a gift from a good friend.Totally unexpected.
Maybe $250.00 into that build.
If I had to go and buy all of this retail it wouldn't be here as no way in hell could I afford all of this.
Oh nice gifts you got from friends and other people around, i have spend tons of money on my hardware, every month about 1500euros or saving that amount for something i want buy in future.

6000euros for xeons + 2 ES, 1000euros for i7 980x, graphics cards.. well dont want even count.

Anyway your lucky guy