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Visiontek gone ATI?
« on: February 01, 2003, 10:10:17 AM »
Visiontek has apperantly dropped nvidia as their gpu. They are apperantly going on ATI. will this lead downhill like it did for hercules?...

there is a pretty funny flash animation on their site I think anyone who CAN check it out should.

visiontek funny flash
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Re: Visiontek gone ATI?
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2003, 10:39:39 AM »
Here is an article that explains the changeover.
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Re: Visiontek gone ATI?
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2003, 10:41:47 AM »
Nvidia is dropped by  others too .. like Apple. See their latest  Power Macs..  here

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The Power Mac G4 features 4x AGP graphics and your choice of four fearsomely fast graphics cards that turn on the afterburners. The ATI Radeon 9000 (1.42GHz and 1.25GHz dual-processor configurations) and the NVIDIA GeForce4 MX (standard on the 1GHz model) pump out billions of textured pixels to kick your projects into overdrive.


So, Nvidia ain't looking so strong anymore.

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Re: Visiontek gone ATI?
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2003, 10:55:09 AM »
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So, Nvidia ain't looking so strong anymore.


Makes you wonder if NVidia will go the way of 3DFx?
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Re: Visiontek gone ATI?
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2003, 10:59:01 AM »
well Mac's never shipped with decent graphics card... look at their choices right now?... the GForce4MX the Radeon 9000 pro and the GeForce4 Ti4600.... granted the Ti4600 isnt a BAD card...but for
almost 4000 bucks...thats pathetic ...
I think the major loss for nvidia is the fact that their current card sucks so much power and needs such intense cooling.
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Re: Visiontek gone ATI?
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2003, 11:40:16 AM »
Funny thing, the new FX card actually looks like an old voodoo 5500 I had in this PC! ;-)
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Re: Visiontek gone ATI?
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2003, 01:54:55 PM »
SLAM!   That is too funny mips!

Best Buy just lost half their shelf of nVidia cards!
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Re: Visiontek gone ATI?
« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2003, 03:40:05 PM »
Visiontek produces GFX cards I understand?
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Re: Visiontek gone ATI?
« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2003, 03:45:40 PM »
Yep, they are large enough that they have thier own catagory for their Xtasy line on pricewatch.com.  And they take up almost the entire isle of video cards available in the Best Buy stores here in the US (the one's around here anyway).  Big loss for nVidia, I would think.
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Re: Visiontek gone ATI?
« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2003, 06:48:17 PM »
Nvidia are far too cocky anyhoo, good to see them getting a bit of a kicking maybe they`ll change their policies a little.
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Re: Visiontek gone ATI?
« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2003, 10:29:02 PM »
Well, a little update.  I went out to town earlier and stopped in at Best Buy.  Not too surprising to see they have replaced the previous Xtasy line with that of BFG.

I guess pretty soon those BFG's will have BFB's as well....  :lol:
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Re: Visiontek gone ATI?
« Reply #11 on: February 01, 2003, 11:35:13 PM »
BFG-9000? :-D
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Re: Visiontek gone ATI?
« Reply #12 on: February 02, 2003, 01:48:37 AM »
nvidia is really not doing that bad. Perhaps Geforce FX is a bit disappointing to some, but nForce 2 which was recently released is considered the best Athlon chipset ever made.
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Re: Visiontek gone ATI?
« Reply #13 on: February 02, 2003, 03:00:12 AM »
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nvidia is really not doing that bad. Perhaps Geforce FX is a bit disappointing to some, but nForce 2 which was recently released is considered the best Athlon chipset ever made.


Yeah, but then again, if you want to run your system with a gazillion fans just to insure it doesnt over heat.  I don't like AMD chips anyway.
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Re: Visiontek gone ATI?
« Reply #14 on: February 02, 2003, 07:25:39 AM »
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HereWeGoAgain:  if you want to run your system with a gazillion fans just to insure it doesnt over heat.

This is one thing I REALLY can't stand about AMD.  They refuse to rework their cooling designs.  The trick is to get a 3rd party copper heatsink with a thermal regulator.  The AMD retail fan is rediculous.  I have the Thermaltake Volcano9 and it is pretty quiet.  Not as quiet as my dad's P4, but close.

I'm replacing my VIA 266a with an nForce2 tomorrow.  The VIA chipset I have now is a pile of crap!  Lousy drivers, awful studdering problems...  the nForce2 is supposed to be a real killer.

As for the GeForceFX, it's a Voodoo5 all over again.  Copper heatsinks on BOTH sides, clocked so fast it's amazing it doesn't explode...  I don't think it matters how fast it is.  Haphazard hardware design just can't survive in the market.

I'm really anxious to see what kind of cooling solution they have in mind for the lower-end FX card.  The QuadroFX 1000 has a much smaller fan assembly.  I guess the QuadroFX 2000 has the same leafblower as the GeForceFX card, though they haven't published a picture of the QFX2K, yet.

For those with Flash, see the QuadroFX 1000 here

I think I'm still going to get ATI's R350 card.  The reason I hate the FX is not because of the performance specs (I did almost get a Parhelia, after all).  My beef is that the form factor is just unacceptable.  Even a reference card shouldn't have the kind of cooler they have now.[
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