WOW! A friend of mine in Ohio lost his video card on his VERY high dollar desktop system. 7-9 years ago this system was built by Dell at a retail cost of ~$20,000.00 including an Epson 17 inch carriage printer. The system was designed as a high level work station to run stuff such as Auto CAD. It has 4 quad-core processors on the mother board along with multiple 15,000 RPM SCSI drives costing over $1000.00 each and is still a beast even 7-9 years later.
The above is just to outline the sort of system this thing happens to be.
Now the video card that went south. It is an NVidia Quadro FX 4600. Here is a review from when it was new. Notice the price tag of $2,399.00!
http://www.cadalyst.com/hardware/nvidia ... eview-6159Here is what I found on Amazon as a replacement. Basically the same card today goes for ~$140.00.
https://www.amazon.com/PNY-Quadro-FX460 ... B000Q04GGSI paid $239.00 for my AMD Radeon R9 380 Nitro series card that has 4 GB of video memory. The NVidia card only has 768 MB of memory.
Of course I'm sure that there are other factors that MAY combine to still make this older card superior to mine but I'm not seeing it comparing specs..
WOW! Things have sure changed for the better as to cost!