Geforce FX to be canned by NVIDIA - Owned by ATi ? I think s

[GiMP]

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[GiMP]

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GFFX Ultra No More:
As we noted here earlier this week, the GeForceFX 5800 Ultra will never make it to retail. Those of you that PreBuy the cards will still get an Ultra model with the FX Flow cooling unit. Those who don't will have the opportunity to get the non-Ultra version (400/800) off the retail shelves for a price of US$300.00. This information is unconfirmed at this time, but has been what we have been told repeatedly by different sources since Tuesday of this week.

Anyone have a working and complete Voodoo5 6000 version 3 or better they want to trade for a working v1.1 GFFX 5800 Ultra? Drop me a line.

Also, at this time it seems that the BFGTech GFFX Ultra is still for sale through Best Buy. Get'um while they are hot...not that they ever won't be.

[Wiggo]

http://forums.tweaktown.com/showthre...774#post124774 ;)

[GiMP]

I think they'll just release what they have already in production and delay strait to the NV35 but by then the R350 will be out so we could be seeing a big circle effect with NVIDIA now trailing ATi ... ATi should savor the moment and come make sure the R350 is already out in full force so they don't give the competition a chance :thumb:

Oh well , ATi , Nvidia , doesn't matter to me , I have no loyalties when it comes to graphics boards , its the quality and performance that matters to me.

[weta]

DREAM ON

[GiMP]

" DREAM ON "


Good point , wait , what was your point again ? :laugh:

[The__tweaker]

Sure hope not, and really think not.

But then again who knows?

Nvidia is just as broke as amd... :thumbs do

[GiMP]

I could care less , honestly , who wants to pay more for a product thats louder , takes up a PCI slot and just barely matches and in some cases falls behind the competitions product thats already been out on the market for some time. It doesn't make sense to me :confused:

[The__tweaker]

Sure, if you get the damn thing to work, are you aware of how many people there is who's brand new card doesn't work?
Even when used with intel chipset boards?
And MANY that do work have some serious driver issues...

Nvidia for me, less problems..

My two cents.

[GiMP]

I dunno man , I think its just coincidence the number of people that posted issues. I mean I've had two Geforce 2 GTS's fail on me in the past and one Geforce 3 MX in my other computer. I didn't post any of them online , and when I worked at a PC repair and sales shop , the NVIDIA card returns were astronomicly higher than the ATi returns , I believe I only saw one during the whole year and our volume was huge.

I'd say NVIDIA's faulty cards vastly outnumber ATi's , right now we're jsut hearing more about ATi's because they're fairly new now to the high end gaming market and are under alot more scruteny by the public than NVIDIA who are well established in the market.

[The__tweaker]

I was refering to 9700, the only card to compete with fx.

:cheers:

[weta]

Nvidia (Oct 02) quarter ended
Cash $322.500.000, Total assets $1,629.700.000, Total liabilities $750.400.000, Total equity $879.300.000

ATi (Sep 02) quarter ended
Cash $72.200.000, Total assets $2,548.800.000, Total liabilities $1,655.900.000, Total equity $892.900.000

AMD (Sep 02) quarter ended
Cash $533.400.000, Total assets $5,731.500.000, Total liabilities $2,490.500.000, Total equity $3,241.100.000

You can't compare ATi and Nvidia with AMD which has it's own Fab facilities.

[Darthtanion]

I dunno man , I think its just coincidence the number of people that posted issues. I mean I've had two Geforce 2 GTS's fail on me in the past and one Geforce 3 MX in my other computer. I didn't post any of them online , and when I worked at a PC repair and sales shop , the NVIDIA card returns were astronomicly higher than the ATi returns , I believe I only saw one during the whole year and our volume was huge.

I'd say NVIDIA's faulty cards vastly outnumber ATi's , right now we're jsut hearing more about ATi's because they're fairly new now to the high end gaming market and are under alot more scruteny by the public than NVIDIA who are well established in the market.

As you stated, the ATI products are being brought to light under a harsher set of standards. Why? Because this is the first time they have had a product that will truly stand toe to toe with nVidia. So since nVidia has had the market share, it stands to reason that they have had more faulty cards... ATI hasn't had the numbers out to have these problems. If I sell one million nVidia cards and only 100 ATI cards, is it any wonder that there are more faulty nVidia based ones coming in for warranty replacement?

nVidia has always done well by me and I don't see where this will change in the future. And even in the extremely rare instance when I had one bad board, it was immediately replaced with no problems. To me, this doesn't sound like a problem.

[RDR]

I seem to recall this same conversation when the GF/GF2 was coming out and all the VooDoo3 & 5 owners were flaming nVidia
"too may problems w/AMD chipsets - won't work correctly w/irongate"

I don't mean to say that nVidia will go the same route as 3DFX - but the similarities are there....

Contrary to what some members may think - I'm not an ATi fan boy, even though I've always said that the Radeon series have always had their own merits - although in most past cases the comparative nVidia product was clearly superior in most ways.

If the FX series never makes it to stores in quantities it will be a shame - I almost certainly would have bought one at some point.

[Beefy]

I mean I've had two Geforce 2 GTS's fail on me in the past and one Geforce 3 MX in my other computer.

There was a Geforce 3 MX? I missed that one. :)