WC Annihilus
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"In a move that has surprised many, Nvidia has gone into direct sales and dropped one of their biggest American partners."
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Nvidia Goes Direct, Drops XFX
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thestepster
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yeah there hasnt been any 4xx series cards and they have had a lot of time to get in on it i reckon they just gave up with nvidia since fermi was so late and just concentrated on ati cards since they were makin money
thestepster
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i seriously done see that happening, xfx was doing nowt and nvidia are just tryin to boost sales by chuckin in generic models out there that ppl that arent in the know will recognise compared to other branding of there cards
XFX and Nvid had a massive falling out before Fermi release, I thought they had been sent GPU's but it seems the stalemate has been brewing for some time. When the agument started XFX started making ATI cards and that has just made the situation 100X worse and hence today XFX being binned off.
Nvidia has a lot to answer for tbh.
Nvidia has a lot to answer for tbh.
That's pretty much why XFX didn't take a chance with it. I can respect that, but the whole bad 4890 batch thing has put a sour taste of XFX in a lot of people's mouthes. I think that is another reason why they aren't doing all too great.
There is one major thing I don't liek about XFX though, the Black Edition 5970. It really isn't special at all, but they make it seem like it some kind of secret to add more vRAM and overclock the card. That's like saying you didn't you could put condiments on your burger to enhance the flavor.
alienware
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This makes me laugh really. I love how Nvidia have turned around and made it look like XFX's fault.
What they seem to be forgetting is what really happened. Being -
Nvidia are taking ages trying to 'fool the bags' on a technology that's too hot, too slow (when cool) and going to be too expensive (due to the investment).
Their partners are also starving.. No new products to sell and to make it worse Nvidia have decided to stop production of their 2xx series cards in order to throw even more good money after bad on Fermi. XFX know this, BFG know this, EVGA know this. That means that as a company you have nothing to sell at all and have to sit back and pray that Nvidia come good or else lose your livelihood.
To make matters worse right about that time Nvidia release a driver that leaves the fan either spinning at around 5% or not at all, killing many cards.
Some of the people (not me sadly !) realise that it was the driver, do their homework and find out for sure and then RMA their cards that are still in warranty. XFX for example had handed out lifetime warranties on their 8800GTX cards, and now have to replace them with like for like, meaning 260 GTX cards.
However the snag is that they don't have these cards, because Nvidia are no longer making or supplying them. So, like BFG you are simply trading new lamps for old and praying that Nvidia provide something soon, but they don't.
At which point BFG run out of stock to replace the many dead cards being fired back at them from every angle and decide that they can no longer carry on. With absolutely no support from Nvidia at all
XFX are watching this and realise that Nvidia are utter a-holes and that they would likely have recieved the same painful ending had they not gone with ATI. Then Nvidia do actually release Fermi and it's just as hot, power hungry, expensive and crap as people had feared.
And then Nvidia throw a sulk because XFX didn't want to buy hundreds of thousands of units from them? I mean crap, that's like buying a metric tonne of bruised apples hoping to sell them at the market.
So then Nvidia, closing in on eight months after ATI had gone to launch (with great cards let me add) release something decent (the 460) and then go -
"ner ner na ner ner, you can't have it because you didn't risk going bust for us, ner ner na ner ner"
And think people won't really see what has happened? or had missed events over the past six to eight months?
I mean, really
What they seem to be forgetting is what really happened. Being -
Nvidia are taking ages trying to 'fool the bags' on a technology that's too hot, too slow (when cool) and going to be too expensive (due to the investment).
Their partners are also starving.. No new products to sell and to make it worse Nvidia have decided to stop production of their 2xx series cards in order to throw even more good money after bad on Fermi. XFX know this, BFG know this, EVGA know this. That means that as a company you have nothing to sell at all and have to sit back and pray that Nvidia come good or else lose your livelihood.
To make matters worse right about that time Nvidia release a driver that leaves the fan either spinning at around 5% or not at all, killing many cards.
Some of the people (not me sadly !) realise that it was the driver, do their homework and find out for sure and then RMA their cards that are still in warranty. XFX for example had handed out lifetime warranties on their 8800GTX cards, and now have to replace them with like for like, meaning 260 GTX cards.
However the snag is that they don't have these cards, because Nvidia are no longer making or supplying them. So, like BFG you are simply trading new lamps for old and praying that Nvidia provide something soon, but they don't.
At which point BFG run out of stock to replace the many dead cards being fired back at them from every angle and decide that they can no longer carry on. With absolutely no support from Nvidia at all
XFX are watching this and realise that Nvidia are utter a-holes and that they would likely have recieved the same painful ending had they not gone with ATI. Then Nvidia do actually release Fermi and it's just as hot, power hungry, expensive and crap as people had feared.
And then Nvidia throw a sulk because XFX didn't want to buy hundreds of thousands of units from them? I mean crap, that's like buying a metric tonne of bruised apples hoping to sell them at the market.
So then Nvidia, closing in on eight months after ATI had gone to launch (with great cards let me add) release something decent (the 460) and then go -
"ner ner na ner ner, you can't have it because you didn't risk going bust for us, ner ner na ner ner"
And think people won't really see what has happened? or had missed events over the past six to eight months?
I mean, really
That's enough to make each card feel different for me though.
