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Originally Posted by Dawelio
Really? Who?...
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XFX were one of the first. Sapphire were next. They used to make Nvidia cards.
XFX ditched off Nvidia after the 200 series. Basically Nvidia left AIBPs stranded for about 11 months in the switch over to Fermi. They stopped manufacturing 200 series chips to be made into cards (260, 280, 285 275 etc) and supplied nothing to them to sell. That is why XFX's 400 cards were only prototypes, as they refused to work with Nvidia again.
BFG basically went bankrupt because of this. They were not expecting high RMA on the 200 series but they were so hot and power hungry that they were terrible. So all they did for nearly a year was replace cards at their own expense, as Nvidia had stopped supplying them. I spoke to them shortly before they died, and the guy said that all they had done for 9 months was ship replacements at their expense with FedX (they were based in Wales). They too never made 400 series cards they went bankrupt instead.
That was what you used to get for being loyal. All of the multi brand companies were fine of course, as basically they were selling 5000 series Radeons for that 11 months. The others loyal to Nvidia got screwed. I am amazed EVGA survived also, but they made motherboards and other products too.