Another Nvidia manufacturer bites the dust

[TKS]

Asus used to produce graphics cards for Nvidia. However, their contract will be up in September. Guess who they're going to manufacture graphics cards for?
You guessed it!
<A HREF="http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Article.asp?datePublish=2003/08/29&pages=B3&seq=91" target="_new">ATI!!!!!</A>

<font color=blue>I've got a better idea. Let's go play "swallow the stuff under the sink." </font color=blue>
<font color=green>Stewie Griffin</font color=green> from <i>The Family Guy</i>

TKS

 

[RCPilot]

That's fine. ASUS made one of the most expensive Nvidia cards anyway. I would imagine it will be pretty much the same case with ATI. Some one will take up the slack & I would guess there's more volume producing Nvidia than ATI. ASUS looses out is all.

Well, I didn't think that was gonna happen!!!

 

[Gastrian]

I used to sell a lot of competetively priced Asus Cards. They were the first big manufacturer in the UK to release a 64MB DDR GF4 MX440-8X AGP for less than £70. The only others at that time were the cheap brands like Jetway and Daytona.

 

[RCPilot]

I just scanned Newegg & the ASUS prices don't seem all that bad, I guess. I've just always felt they were high. I've only used a couple of them in other peoples machines.

However there MOBO's, I don't mind paying a little more for. Just how I kind of fell. No other reason I guess.

Well, I didn't think that was gonna happen!!!

 

[sargeduck]

I've heard MSI may also be producing ATI cards soon.....they're another big Nividia supplier.

 

[Gastrian]

Asus tend to get higher priced with the top end boards. Low end they're very good, their Ti4200 boards were a bargain but when you went further up the price difference between them and other brands got wider though Asus does put a lot of extras on their boards. Their Deluxe boards are like All-In-Wonders.

 

[RCPilot]

The ASUS & MSI (At least the Golden Sample) come with so much stuff it's not funny. The MSI card I installed had to of had 7 CD's included. Never seen that much stuff with a vid card.

Most of the ones I've handled have been the up scale boards & they were installed for the video.

Well, I didn't think that was gonna happen!!!

 

[Willamette_sucks]

"Golden Sample" refers to Gainward boards.



"Mice eat cheese." - Modest Mouse

"Every Day is the Right Day." -Pink Floyd

 

[RCPilot]

Your right, my bad. Here's the <A HREF="http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?catalog=48&DEPA=1&submit=property&mfrcode=0&propertycode=&propertycodevalue=3109,3668" target="_new"> card.</A> I thought it said Golden Sample when I got it & installed it. Sorry!

Well, I didn't think that was gonna happen!!!

 

[RCPilot]

I put in a Golden Sample in one guys machine, but I think that was a TI4200. Can't remember, built to many machines lately.

Well, I didn't think that was gonna happen!!!

 

[ufo_warviper]

What about Gigabyte? (Not gigacube). I almost always use Gigabyte mobos because of the dual-bios features. If you ever want to flash your bios for a CPU upgrade, you'll have nothing to worry about with a Gigabyte board. As far as their Graphics cards go, I am not sure how well-off they are. Does anyone have opinions about Gigabyte Graphics cards? I was wondering why they are not on the "reccomended" list for the nVidia cards, considering the quality of their mobos.

My OS features preemptive multitasking, a fully interactive command line, & support for 640K of RAM!

 

[RCPilot]

I've just never used Gigabyte MOBO's before. I've installed ASUS for at least the last 4 to 5 years. No complaints with them, so I haven't looked else where. If they do start messing up, then I'll check out some others, for sure.

Well, I didn't think that was gonna happen!!!