As it happens, my graphics card, an old GTX Ultra, died yesterday (after 2.5 years of faithful service)... now, unfortunately these days I don't have much money to burn, so I just went out looking for any cheap-and-cheerful card as a replacement. I would have been willing to settle for total $£#%, but decided anything under €100 would do.
So I found a Gforce 250 for roughly that amount (€80), and figured "it would do", so I bought it, not expecting much.
As it turns out, spec-for-spec, it's actually exactly the same thing (and just as powerful) as my old Ultra, which 2 years ago was the king-of-the-hill. Also, happily runs 20°C cooler.
The bugger part is my GTX cost over €400 at the time, and I've never seen a game it couldn't play fluently at 1900x1200 resolution (usually the thing that brings cards to their knees).
So the new card (which runs everything "just fine") is now considered "budget gaming".
Bunch of scurrilous old tosh, if you ask me, this "newest is best" idea with technology.
It was nice, I must say, to be the "first kid on my block" (or cabbage patch) just once, but ultimately it really is nothing more than a vanity.
I give up. I'll just invest in some bank shares instead... oh... wait...
