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Could old hardware collect in the future yield value and money ?

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Animalpak said:
I think somethink that was flagship for the era can gain value...
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Why would it?
I mean... who would buy it?
You have some old stuff already. Try asking for a price on on this forum. You'll have some estimation of where it's going.
All with the concept of the highest performance, all cards that we dreamed about but never had the chance to afford when launched.
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When someone dreamed about a card and couldn't afford it, he wanted the performance - not a souvenir.
Im concentrating on graphics cards yes but also some motherboards were powerful and prestigious too.
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Seriously? Prestigious PC parts?

You want to earn money? Sell it all and open a deposit.

Animalpak said:
Look at this guys

Still in his package sealed. Worth price 1000+ $.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/3dfx-voodo...724972?hash=item41e483eb6c:g:RAMAAOSw1JBa0Ljg
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It's an asking price. That isn't how much it's worth.
 
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Bill_Bright said:
Stereotyping is based on prejudice and biases typically out of ignorance. Thanks for confirming that. :(
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Stereotyping is the basis for most all preventative law enforcement. Without it we would live in a free for all state.
Open your eyes.
 
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Mr.Scott said:
Stereotyping is the basis for most all preventative law enforcement. Without it we would live in a free for all state.
Open your eyes.
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Oh for goodness sake! Now you have to troll in to defend this uncalled-for stereotyping too? :( Yes, stereotyping is the catalyst for much preventative law - that is, laws put in place to prevent bigots from discriminating against entire groups of people based solely on their race, religious preference, social class, disability, gender,

notb said:
It's an asking price. That isn't how much it's worth.
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Exactly. HUGE difference! Go back in 6 months and see if it is still for sell. I note that page was last revised nearly 2 months ago. Who knows how long it has already been there. Also note it is a PCI card. Not PCIe. Many new motherboards don't even come with PCI slots anymore. Looks like there aren't even XP drivers for it!
Mr.Scott said:
Stereotyping is the basis for most all preventative law enforcement. Without it we would live in a free for all state.
Open your eyes.
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Oh for goodness sake! Now you have to troll in to dredge up and defend this uncalled-for stereotyping too? :( Yes, stereotyping is the catalyst for much preventative law - laws put in place to deter and punish bigots from discriminating against entire groups of people based solely on their race, religious preference, social class, disability, gender, nationality and AGE!

Open your eyes to see and understand what flag you are rallying behind. Or do you also believe our senior citizens (many of whom are members of this site) are just "dumb arsed old aged pensioners that line up like sheep" too?

I recommend you and anyone else who feels the urge to defend disparaging seniors (or any other group of people) with bigotous comments to drop this now and move back to the topic of collecting legacy hardware for investment value.
 
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Bill_Bright said:
The generations who came before you ensuring your freedoms which you so take for granted.
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Heard this a million times and I never understood this "don't take for granted thing". How exactly can you "not take it for granted" ? Progress is built onto things that we take for granted which have been tried and tested before us, otherwise we wouldn't be able to get anywhere.

What exactly do you expect us, "damn youngsters", to do ?
 
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@BB- I said nothing disparaging seniors.
My point was for you to mind who you backhandedly call ignorant.
As for the thread derail, only YOU opened that door.
1 vote to change your user title to ' Master of Deflection'.
 
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Mr.Scott said:
@BB- I said nothing disparaging seniors.
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No. You just defended those who did. And you jumped in with both feet with your snide comment of "open your eyes". That was unnecessary. You could have just made the valid observation that many laws do come from stereotypes without the additional commentary.

My point was for you to mind who you backhandedly call ignorant.
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Isn't that the mods job? But no, it was not backhandedly at all. The stereotyping comment against our senior pensioners was in direct response to my Honda Accord analogy. I think I was quite clear it was discriminatory, offensive and uncalled for, and who it was directed at.
Vya Domus said:
Progress is built onto things that we take for granted which have been tried and tested before us,
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Whoa! If something has been "tried and tested", then you are NOT taking it for granted! If Mommy and Daddy bail you out of jail when you were caught driving drunk twice before, it is taking them for granted if you assume they will do it again. They may not because it is clear you are not learning your lesson. What you can take for granted, however, is if you get caught again, you will go to jail.
Vya Domus said:
What exactly do you expect us, "damn youngsters", to do ?
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:( What does this have to do with the stereotyping? This is yet another tangent that is totally off topic. But what do I expect? I expect the youth of today, including my kids, my grandkids, and now my great-great grandson to not assume their elders are "dumb arsed old aged pensioners that line up like sheep".

Is that really too much to expect?

Can we get back to the OP's topic now?
 
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Bill_Bright said:
Whoa! If something has been "tried and tested", then you are NOT taking it for granted! If Mommy and Daddy bail you out of jail when you were caught driving drunk twice before, it is taking them for granted if you assume they will do it again. They may not because it is clear you are not learning your lesson. What you can take for granted, however, is if you get caught again, you will go to jail.
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And so the question still stands, how do you not take for granted the things that the previous generation have done ? You gave me an example that has nothing to do with that.

Bill_Bright said:
:( What does this have to do with the stereotyping? This is yet another tangent that is totally off topic. But what do I expect? I expect the youth of today, including my kids, my grandkids, and now my great-great grandson to not assume their elders are "dumb arsed old aged pensioners that line up like sheep".
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It's not a tangent, I never once mentioned anything about stereotyping, though to be fair your assertions that young people take things for granted and are disrespectful sure paints a stereotype on their own.
 
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Bill_Bright said:
No. You just defended those who did. And you jumped in with both feet with your snide comment of "open your eyes". That was unnecessary. You could have just made the valid observation that many laws do come from stereotypes without the additional commentary.

Isn't that the mods job? But no, it was not backhandedly at all. The stereotyping comment against our senior pensioners was in direct response to my Honda Accord analogy. I think I was quite clear it was discriminatory, offensive and uncalled for, and who it was directed at.
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All I know is, if I blatantly called anybody ignorant or a troll, I would be (and have been) infracted immediately.
Yet you seem to get away with it almost on a daily basis.
Thus:
Master of Deflection.
 
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Vya Domus said:
And so the question still stands, how do you not take for granted the things that the previous generation have done ? You gave me an example that has nothing to do with that.
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Your question has nothing to do with being a bigot or stereotyping.

If you don't understand how the lessons of history teaches later generations to [hopefully] stop them from making the same mistakes, then God have mercy on you.

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It's not a tangent, I never once mentioned anything about stereotyping
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Gee whiz! That's why it is a tangent! The side topic was about stereotyping. Not about taking things for granted.
Vya Domus said:
to be fair your assertions that young people take things for granted and are disrespectful sure paints a stereotype on their own.
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Wow! I NEVER ONCE asserted or said "young people" as a group do this or are that!

Mr.Scott said:
All I know is, if I blatantly called anybody ignorant or a troll,
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Oh, so now that the shoe is on the other foot, you don't like it? :shadedshu: Stereotyping senior pensioners is okay but calling such stereotyping ignorant is not? Come on, Mr.Scott. Should we add "hypocritical" to the list then?

NOW can we move back to the topic? PLEASE!!!!
 
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Bill_Bright said:
Oh, so now that the shoe is on the other foot, you don't like it? :shadedshu: Stereotyping senior pensioners is okay but calling such stereotyping ignorant is not? Come on, Mr.Scott. Should we add "hypocritical" to the list then?
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LOL. You're a peach.
Jesus.
I'm out.
 
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Bill_Bright said:
If you don't understand how the lessons of history teaches later generations to [hopefully] stop them from making the same mistakes, then God have mercy on you.
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Still doesn't explain how is the current generation taking things for granted, though at this point I will stop asking that. It's clear you don't have a straight answer, which is to be expected, you were just saying an age old mantra that didn't mean anything. That was all I was trying to point out.

Bill_Bright said:
I NEVER ONCE asserted or said "young people" as a group do this or are that!
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I take exception to your puerile juvenile dumb arsed disrespectful, stereotyping biased characterization of the elderly. The generations who came before you ensuring your freedoms which you so take for granted.
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You were clearly targeting the younger generation with your statement which was ironically more stereotypical than anything else that was said here.

Bill_Bright said:
NOW can we move back to the topic? PLEASE!!!!
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I find that hilarious, you were the first one to fuel this off topic discussion, unfortunately you don't get to back away from it. I mean you do, but it's not like we are obliged to do that before you do.
 
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Your effort is futile my friend. Save your breath.
Don't take my word for it though, I'm just an ignorant troll.
 
Seems once again I need to issue some reply bans, off topic is an understatement, if anyone has any issues around understanding the intent of others comments please take it to PM and not completely hijack a thread, for those still here and not reply banned (yet) please move back on topic.
 
@Animalpak It's very seldom the case that hardware increases in value after hitting the point of obsolescence, but it can still happen. Some prime examples for consideration are 3Dfx's Voodoo 4 4500 PCI, or XGI's Volari Duo V8. Both of these cards are frequently sold or traded at values exceeding their original asking prices, though that is usually more to do with individuals desires and not a market-wide agreed upon value.

Staying on the topic of collecting GPUs since you showed sincere interest in that specific niche; intrinsically rare (lower production) cards will always retain more value but they will almost never gain value. You might see somebody trying to sell an ASUS ARES 5870x2 for $1,200 on eBay, but chances are very good that the public auction price of that card is actually around $130 all said and done. Still higher than your average 5970, but a significant discount when compared to the original sale price of the card.
 
I definitely think so. I mean but only for the highest end of each type most likely. I'm collecting motherboards for example. Plus half of my hardware is used that I still spend $100-250 on. The EVGA SR-X is insanely expensive and rare for example. If I had money I would grab it. I suppose the problem is that GPU's tend to age like milk, while motherboards & CPUs are more like wine.
 
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I still keep an AMD K6-2 450MHz CPU but I don't think I can sell it lol

Only historic/innovative/disruptive pieces of hardware like the original IBM or Apple I
 
I guess most of the hardware I have collected over the years, it might not be worth anything to others but to me it's just hardware I've loved having or just can't seem to sell because I don't want to :) I've made a choice now also with that any hardware I do buy, be it second hand or brand new, I will be keeping it because every time I sell something, I end up buying it back in a few months or something and to be honest, I got fed up with doing it lol

I've still got all of m EVGA Classifieds, Asrock OCF boards, my DFI boards, even my NF7-S Rev 2 board, but I won't be selling it even though it's considered old and possibly 'crap' but for me I like it, so I keep it :) I think it's all personal preference :)
 
Frick said:
In 20 years time entire systems could be worth a bit.
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Very true, i sold my broken 3DFX card for over $90 over a year ago, although some what unique due to dual chips and all.

I would say if your not strapped for cash and have the spare space, store them and find out one day, but do be careful were you store them.

Maybe really good legency cards would be worth keeping, like the best AGP cards were.
 
The future is cloud gaming, so ugly to say, but its the future, so we will not need anymore Hi_Perf PC in our room, but just a monitor with integrated i5
 
argon said:
The future is cloud gaming, so ugly to say, but its the future, so we will not need anymore Hi_Perf PC in our room, but just a monitor with integrated i5
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Before that we'll need unlimited gigafiber at home, not to mention high speed routers.
 
argon said:
The future is cloud gaming, so ugly to say, but its the future, so we will not need anymore Hi_Perf PC in our room, but just a monitor with integrated i5
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That supports OP's hopes that the hardware increases in value. Not only would that create scarcity as the available used parts dwindle, but it also invites in influx into the market of nostalgia. If everything goes to the cloud, there will still be tinkerers and enthusiasts looking for a challenge, looking for some fun.

We already see this market thriving on old mechanical keyboards, CRT displays, and graphics card vendors of yesteryear despite it all being officially obsolete.
 
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