£2799 graphics card for company PC? Accountants?...

[northernladuk]

Bearing in mind this is just a GPU I would have thought it would have needed an expensive piece of kit to go in to as well. Most of the reviews talk about supercomputing at this level of GPU...

With no mention of the other kit to go along with this I am having a problem taking this post seriously. I wouldn't have thought the 7 month public sector gig the OP has just finished would have required this level of hardware.

Sitting here waiting to be proven otherwise thought.....

[AtW]

Company can pursue Plan B which requires this sort of hardware - if R&D is done it might even qualify for R&D relief.

At this sort of price it is a professional graphics card rather than consumer which would cost 10 times less.

[Scruff]

Gretsch White Falcon

I hate you...Do you perhaps have a National, too?

[stek]

I hate you...Do you perhaps have a National, too?

You think people tell the truth on here!!?? All CUK content is based on lies!

[b0redom]

Having had a quick squiz at Scan, it looks like even a pair of Titans in SLI would 'only' cost ~ £2000. The only thing approaching that sort of cost is a Quadro which is a workstation card and would be rubbish for gaming on.

If you're just wanting the fastest gaming card you can get, you don't need to spend anything like this.

[Maslins]

I can't find anything on Google...but I'm sure someone told me of a tax case ages back where a sole trader window cleaner used a lamborghini to get to clients (he was independently wealthy but loved his work). He apportioned costs appropriately based on mileage.

HMRC challenged it on the basis it was unnecessarily extravagant. Judge ruled in the taxpayers favour on the basis it'd be a dangerous precedent to suggest HMRC could disallow any costs they felt were extravagant...where would the line be drawn.

Like I say, possibly the above was an old wives tale as I can't find evidence of it (based on 10 seconds Googling). However, the same logic applies that if you need to travel for business and travel first class, that's fine. I don't see why it would be any different for computer equipment.

As suggested above though, there might be the separate angle of attack as to whether you're actually buying it with business usage in mind.

[stek]

I can't find anything on Google...but I'm sure someone told me of a tax case ages back where a sole trader window cleaner used a lamborghini to get to clients (he was independently wealthy but loved his work). He apportioned costs appropriately based on mileage.

HMRC challenged it on the basis it was unnecessarily extravagant. Judge ruled in the taxpayers favour on the basis it'd be a dangerous precedent to suggest HMRC could disallow any costs they felt were extravagant...where would the line be drawn.

Like I say, possibly the above was an old wives tale as I can't find evidence of it (based on 10 seconds Googling). However, the same logic applies that if you need to travel for business and travel first class, that's fine. I don't see why it would be any different for computer equipment.

As suggested above though, there might be the separate angle of attack as to whether you're actually buying it with business usage in mind.

I heard it was a club/pub cigarette machine owner who toured posh clubs in London mostly and justified the Lambo cos it needed to fit in with the clientele - don't want a Ford Granada spoiling the atmos.

[RiCu]

I came across the same story the other day (new to contracting, researching allowable expenses).

w ww.taxation.co.uk/taxation/articles/2001/05/10/1017/tax-case-no-deduction-lamborghini

[jamesbrown]

Having had a quick squiz at Scan, it looks like even a pair of Titans in SLI would 'only' cost ~ £2000. The only thing approaching that sort of cost is a Quadro which is a workstation card and would be rubbish for gaming on.

If you're just wanting the fastest gaming card you can get, you don't need to spend anything like this.

Agreed, but you can spend big money on specialist GPUs for professional applications:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/PNY-Quadro-N...bs_computers_1

Put together a bank of high-end GPUs and you're quickly talking 20k+. These can be used for things like ensemble forecasting (e.g. of weather). Very unlikely to be applicable to an IT contractor though

[b0redom]

But then you're quite clearly into a business expense as it's very unlikely one would spend that kind of wonga on a card to play games on. No?