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emp   10-07-2008 at 03:46:26 AM

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/N [...] ,6455.html

 
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According to the Inquirer, industry sources say that both Foxconn and Club 3D are among the casualties, along with three yet unnamed partners. Already Gainward and XFX have left Nvidia, with EVGA stating it would no longer exclusively sell just Nvidia products.

 

Well I don't put too much into what theinq has to say about anything, but if XFX already confirmed about leaving nvidia and EVGA already stated that it's no longer exclusive, then I'd be more worried about that than anything else, since those are in my eyes two of the three "premium" nvidia brands (BFG being the third).

 

I have to admit that I'm happy for ATI, since they are now gaining two key partners with lifetime warranties, but I honestly hope that they stop losing other partners after this small setback.

 

EDIT: XFX HD 4870 X2 and EVGA HD 5870 X2 are starting to sound good from where I stand...


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Yuka   10-07-2008 at 03:55:31 AM
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Hard news for nVidia indeed...

Sapphire is ATI only, right? Cause they are like nº1 third party ATI manufacturer and they have serious goodies.

Anyway, good for us that XFX and eVGA are now ATI players, we should see more competition and price drops =D

Esop!

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spathotan   10-07-2008 at 04:03:37 AM
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Never thought it would see XFX leave Nvidia. And EVGA going both ways is even stranger.

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roadrunner197069   10-07-2008 at 04:09:55 AM
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Stepup on ATI cards now? Very nice. I quess when you squeeze your partners margins to hard the start looking around.

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emp   10-07-2008 at 04:11:31 AM
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Wonder IF you'll be allowed to step up from an EVGA GTX 280 to an EVGA HD 4870 X2? That'd be darn awesome for their customers.

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spathotan   10-07-2008 at 04:13:41 AM
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While promising news, it is news from the Inquirer. I checked out XFX's and EVGA's website and saw nothing in the news sections regarding this. Ill hold my breath on this.


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TheGreatGrapeApe   10-07-2008 at 05:16:30 AM
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I don't really care too much about XFX, I didn't hold them in as high esteem as others did.

But this isn't all that new, from when Hercules jumped around, Visiontek went Banrupt with nV then resurected with ATi a while later, to Asus, Gigabyte and MSI becoming Mfr agnostic and building for both IHVs (and even Ageia in ASUS' case).

I think the market place is too competitive for a ton of different box makers with their own little nich markets and thus requiring duplicate customer support, marketing depts, etc.

I would prefer all of the really large companies follow Gigabyte, ASUS and MSI's lead, and for eVGA and BFG and Sapphire and HIS to join the fold and sell from both sides of the shelf. Although I have to say I'd be far more interested in an eVGA HD4K than a Sapphire GTX2xx under their current options and services. Although get a nice Saphirre Liquid Metal or Aqua-cooled-Toxic GTX model and I might change my tune.

eVGA's customer service and step-up program is something I think that really is missing on the ATi side of the floor, and while Sapphire has interesting one-off solutions, their average stuff is just average. But combine the best of both and that would be nice for everyone IMO.

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englandr753   10-07-2008 at 05:33:45 AM
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This is news worth keeping an eye out for. If any of this is true this is a mark on the winners side of the scoreboard for customers. I love competition!

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cjl   10-07-2008 at 07:10:46 AM
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If this is true, I want an EVGA 4870x2

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dannyaa   10-07-2008 at 07:16:12 PM
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Ooh, with eVGA, being able to "step up" to either an nvidia card to an ATI card or vice versa would be AMAZING!

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rangers   10-07-2008 at 07:43:01 PM
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dannyaa wrote :

Ooh, with eVGA, being able to "step up" to either an nvidia card to an ATI card or vice versa would be AMAZING!




i just dont get it who in there right mind replaces there card every 90 days
its a mad world

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Yuka   10-07-2008 at 07:54:33 PM
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rangers wrote :

i just dont get it who in there right mind replaces there card every 90 days
its a mad world

 

Madness you say...?

 

This... is... TomsHardwah'!!1111!

 

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Esop! X'D

 

PS: So sorry, I just had to do it X'D


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gamerk316   10-07-2008 at 08:21:20 PM
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This would be news to me, especially XFX.

Linky?

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dannyaa   10-08-2008 at 08:31:58 PM
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Every 90 days? You can only do it ONCE. Here's a few reasons:

You buy you're awesome card and then 67 days later OH NO the new version w/die shrink and more cores, etc. came out for the same price! So now you get it for free (plus shipping).

Or, if you are like me: lets say you know new cards are around the corner. But while waiting 2 months for them, you would like to have a faster GPU to play games on in the meantime. Well yay, now I can.

Or lets say, you have $300 now, but really you want to save and get the $500 card. Well good, plop $300 down now, and then in 80 days you've saved another $200-ish, upgrade to that, meanwhile you got to play on the $300 card for months...

And like Yuka said, this is Tom's hardware!!!

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