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Some Nvidia Partners To Go Under ?

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Nvidia's partners are in trouble, and it’s not an isolated case. They depend on good sales of high-end cards and this part of the market is nonexistent at this time. You simply cannot buy any high-end GT200 based chips from Nvidia and this is something that is going on since August time.


Selling cards such GT210 and GT220 is not something that most of people can make money off. Partners make pennies on such cards and these cards also don’t do particularly well as they are competing with 9500GT and 9400 cards that usually end up cheaper on the market.

Geforce GT240 is selling at acceptable levels, but again partners don’t have GT260, GT285 and GT295 cards, something that would help them make some profit.

Some partners might actually go under. We don’t want to name any names at this point, but at least in Europe some big names might disappear waiting for Fermi.
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Im putting my money on BFG.
 
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I looked at the Nvidia lineup on OCUK the other day and it is shameful, ATI are providing better and cheaper cards in pretty much all segments and many areas have little or no stock.
 
Is it my imagination or did BFG say they were going to do ATI cards a little while ago? Perhaps I'm thinking of someone else?
 
This seems like one of those situations where the AIB partner could just start selling ATI cards and get their contract thrown out by a "favourable" judge. They'd be blackballed by nv for life, though. :D
 
Yes, XFX, thanks!

If BFG do go, I'll be massively gutted as I have a lifetime warranty with my GTX280, and I've always seen the card as a ticking time bomb, quite a lot die it seems.
 
hope BFG start stocking ATi, they seem to have awesome warranties, but guess thats why they are also not expected to be looking so pretty now, especially since it seems every 8800 ever has died
 
I always felt like BFG warranties were economical suicide. Maybe they never planned to be around for the longhaul.
 
We need Jeff from BFG to post in here.

I can see it being a rather big problem for them not being able to sell any £300+ High end cards as these are obviously the most profitable.
 
Indeed, Jeff's input would be nice at this point, though even he may not know for sure what's going on.

Why is the card supply so low then? Just economics or something else?
 
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