Take a nice holiday, buy 24 cases of wine, or go for a Gainward Nvidia card

A GAINWARD CARD with 256MB of memory and using Nvidia FX 5900 technology costs a staggering £616.90 ($990.77), it has emerged.

The handpicked, watercooled cards, which are for sale at this web site, and which have an interesting looking heatsink on them are expected to be available on the 14th of August. But we've done some rooting around to see what you can get for the same amount of money.

According to Lastminute.com, you and your partner could stay seven nights in Egypt for the cash.

We tried to see how many people you could take to Blackpool for a week in our current sweltering weather but unfortunately Blackpool's tourist office forget to register this domain name, or maybe didn't want.

You could buy three high end complete vacuum cleaning systems to clear out the dust from your PC fans from Argos.

You've almost enough to buy a Pentium 4 2.40GHz with 512K cache, a free hard drive upgrade and a free upgrade to DVD-RW or CD-RW from Dell Computers UK, here.

Tesco is offering its Jacobs Creek Shiraz wine per case for £25, so you could buy 24 cases and sit out in your back garden or just buy half the amount and stick the rest in the fridge freezer.

You don't need a fridge freezer for multiple bottles of Talisker whisky.

You could buy three Fuji Finepix digital cameras from Dixons, and even get a fan thrown in.

£616.90. Isn't that a bit of an extravagant buy when our own Fuad Abazovic tells us there's new technology just round the corner? µ