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my finances remain modest

In my opinion then the price on graphics card has been rather high the last couple of years so it's very long time since last I bought a new one myself. To make matters worse then where I live then most not-that-newer used graphics cards are attempted sold at prices that are very expensive so that it hardly pays to buy secondhand when you compare to relative price and performance of a new latest generation one. Upgrading from a GTX760 then I were lucky to find a working 4GB GTX960 a while back for I think only around 60 EUR as far as I remember that is what I am using now myself. It's not that good but still for me not that bad either as long as I don't try to run any demanding newer computer games. I expect that my GTX960 will be OK for me to run the Kontakt 8 and personally I would expect Kontakt 8 to be comparatively more demanding on CPU and maybe be memory hungry in some situations/instances (?) , but of course I could be wrong.

Also I think that it is almost crazy with all the different new models of graphics cards making it sometimes almost virtually impossible to determine what is the better model , with cards sold with 8GB RAM , 12GB RAM , 16GB RAM not to mention the top models with 24GB RAM , and then with models ranging from 'standard' over Super and to TI. I will though upgrade to a new graphics card of a newer more recent series if I ever spot something that I want and am willing to pay the price for on a sale with a discount.

The real crazy part of this is Kontakt does not need a fancy card of any kind.

I honestly do not understand neither the style of your post nor the need for it. I never wrote that Kontakt do require something very fancy. But what remains is that at least some of the really cheap cards people have had problems with and when wanting to upgrade from that to something newer/better then people are often looking at paying a steep price for a new older generation card that may be too old in a few years also or be looking at the rather high inflated prices of the newer generations. Also in the end then graphics card discussions is about the use for all of both N.I. software and all of peoples general use of their graphics card. And also if you would care to check then what I responded to were mostly the "my finances remain modest part".

I even added that I myself use a GTX960 card that i bought secondhand for the price of 60 EUR and that I expected that to be adequate/OK for Kontakt 8.

As for people purchasing a new graphics card then IMO I never ever in general wrote either that people needs really fancy cards for N.I. software, you can take this discussion as an example (post is more than seven months old and may not presently reflect recommendable best choices) , though of course I will not recommend people to go really cheap just to appease someone like you. Also my recommendations on graphics card usually also reflects the fact that something fair usually serves people better overall than something poor even if people at the time of purchase might not agree and have their gaze firmly fixed at the purchase price. (These discussions are endless and it serves no purpose what so ever to discuss in length as viewpoint depends solely on attitude and philosophy of the individuals involved).