Report: XFX Not Making GeForce GTX 480, 470s

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I'm not fond of XFX after I had to RMA three sets (that's 6) GTX 280's and user replaced a fan on a 8800GT. All in 18 months.
 
After the amount of GTX260s and GTX280s I went through (without overclocking) I'm sure they're terrified of offering any kind of warranty on these things. The purple screens of death got so bad for me that I refuse to ever by another nVidia product.
 
[citation][nom]KageRyu[/nom]Go go XFX! They know what's good for their business (b^_^)b[/citation]
Time will tell. Still, nice to see some competion; it's badly needed.
 
XFX seems knows what they are doing...

I wouldn't be shocked if Nvidia filled for bankruptcy within the next 5 years. Their products have been shockingly down the drain lately.
 
[citation][nom]lauxenburg[/nom]XFX seems knows what they are doing...I wouldn't be shocked if Nvidia filled for bankruptcy within the next 5 years. Their products have been shockingly down the drain lately.[/citation]

i hope not, competition is all we'v got to keep good products with good prices coming. lets hope nvidia will learn from their mistakes and go head to head with ATI next series
 
[citation][nom]lauxenburg[/nom]XFX seems knows what they are doing...I wouldn't be shocked if Nvidia filled for bankruptcy within the next 5 years. Their products have been shockingly down the drain lately.[/citation]

Nvidias not going anywhere. True there high end gaming gpu isnt doing to well at this point but Nvidia has there hands in laptops and workstation cards. Also they have other ventures other than just gaming. It just may be the end of high end consumer graphics from them.
 
[citation][nom]radiovan[/nom]Time will tell. Still, nice to see some competion; it's badly needed.[/citation]

I know, I just noticed that the xfx 5850 dropped from $309 to $289 on newegg today. I guess Nvidia did something even though I expected much more from them.
 
I read this on Legit Reviews and Hardware Canucks yesterday. If you read the entire report, XFX has not ruled out making derivative, or "lesser" models yet to come. They're just skipping these first two cards. I don't blame them considering the warranty they'd have to offer. Looks like PNY, eVGA, Zotac and Sparkle may become the only companies to offer lifetime warranty cards within the nVidia camp, for now.

One thing XFX is still behind on when it comes to it's ATI cards - support for voltage modifications like MSI and ASUS.
 
can't blame them, with the temps these two cards run at, it would cost them millions to reaplce dead cards under their lifetime warranty.

i think they will be offering lower end cards, but its just not worth them offering 470.480's.
 
Pesonally, I am waiting till 2011. Nvidia will have time to mature/upgrade their design, prices will normalize on both sides of the camp and PCI-e 3.x will be out, hopefully. Really, DX11 is not my concern one bit, stability is and multi-functionality, since my life does not revolve around game spec's but making money with what I got.
 
it's not xfx that doesn't want to churn out these two cards, its nvidia
that cut them off because they started making ATI products according to
some sites. it's sort of like a punishment it seems. xfx's response to this
is 5970 x2. xfx made right response by trying to really rubbing it in.
 

That can't be true. XFX, along with ASUS, MSI, and Gigabyte have been making cards for both brands for at least 2 years. Meanwhile, ASUS, MSI, and Gigabyte are still making both. Why would they cut only one of them for cross manufacturing? To make a point? LOL And why cut the one with whom they've had a great relationship with for many, many years?

It doesn't make any sense to think that's how it went down... Mainly because nVidia hasn't had a new product in over a year (GTS 250 does NOT count - rebadge!) and wants to get itself back into the running. XFX is known world-wide. You don't chop off one of your best, else you risk chopping off part of yourself.
 
[citation][nom]alterecho[/nom]it's not xfx that doesn't want to churn out these two cards, its nvidiathat cut them off because they started making ATI products according tosome sites. it's sort of like a punishment it seems. xfx's response to thisis 5970 x2. xfx made right response by trying to really rubbing it in.[/citation]

I read this somewhere too.

But will it really hurt them, no new nVidia product to sell to no decent nVidia product to sell, for the last seven months.
 
When your number one card sale does not have a product for your next-gen chip that is a very, very bad sign. No matter what happened this shows that nVidia has made a mistake with how they have handle the GF100 chip.
If they don't stop listening to their own PR spin and fix all major issues with this chip, we will be left with only ATI and thats not good for anyone.
 
[citation][nom]RazberyBandit[/nom]One thing XFX is still behind on when it comes to it's ATI cards - support for voltage modifications like MSI and ASUS.[/citation]

That's because they offer a lifetime warranty and do not want to replace cards the user caused death to.
 
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