is ati and nvidia milking us?

[Skratch]

I just sat here thinking about it and noticed they just keep on upping the prices and not really giving us what there asking for in performance.

I can remember when the vodoo cards came out and wiped the compitition away and they were not over 250 buck then vodoo 2 was around 300

that was fine then because they actually looked better than anything else.

I bought a 9700 for 300 and was the best card out when I bought it.that card kicked ass and for the first time in a while I said hey this card is worth it.

then the x800 came out and I droped some big doe and barely saw a difference.

now the top line cards are in the 600+ what the heck is going on here....theres a new card every 6-8 months and the prices keep increasing?

soon the top end cards will be 1k if this continues

just for reference 13 years ago I bought a brand new compaq 486 25mhz with 4 megs of ram,120 mg hard dirve and no cdrom and no sound card for 1400 with a 14in svga monitor...if that trend continued we would be paying 10k for a system now

walk into best buy now with 1400 bucks and your walking out with a conroe running beast.

these video cards are getting out of hand.I dropped almost 400 for my last card and now dx10 will be out soon and need to drop 600 to run it.

then comes dx10.1 and need another new card.

Im suprised the goverment hasnt come in and yell at the video card makers,because this is getting rediculus