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How come new 7800s are so experensive and hard to find, whereas the other 7 series cards are still plentiful?
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what happened to all the 7800s
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The 7800's are not made anymore, they were stopped when the 7900's came out. 
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hmmm, oh well thats quite annoying
I hear the 7900s have problems
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Yeah xbox 360s are more reliable than the 7900's, and everyone knows how bad they are, some ppl are into double figures. 
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so what are my options? Break with tradition and go all ATI. Or save a bucket of cash and get a 7600GT, while i wait for directX10 cards to come out.
, running a X1900XT-X here and its great, there just so much to choose from in the ATi camp, even our beloved "egt" the resident nvidia fanboy has got one now!Either is a good option really and Nvidia are releasing the 7950 GT soon which will be the successor to the disasterous 7900 GT, so a 7600 GT would hold you nicely until then (and far beyond if you wanted to wait until the DirectX 10 tech has matured like the rest of us.)rangor gubbins said:
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cheers for your opinions guys and gals. I'm not in any hurry, so i've got plenty of pondering time
The eVGA ones have had a slightly lower failure rate all along, around 2%, but they still have the same problems as the rest of those ticking time-bombs. The main problem with the eVGA ones is that for some reason, something like 20% of people who RMA an eVGA 7900 GT end up having to RMA twice or more.no_1_dave said:My 7900 GT's fine & so are most of them.
The problems been sorted, definatly sorted in the EVGA ones
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Just read on EVGA forum, I had a personal cinema video card, this card was a great idea but with a bad application, it had tv tuner, VIVO and a FX5600 core, but like all evga card was too hot, and one day it blew up, also their 7800 series had a lot of trouble with the over ! over!!! clocking.. too much over the reference and they don't even improve the cooling!.!!
Either ways there is people who like their marketing, like putting a metal cover to keep the heat inside, but it's looks neatss on those mod pc for 15 years old kids.
I can say I got here the GS+ from gainward and now problems on the summer, no air conditioneer, about 80 C running Doom 3 at ultra high quality and 4X and playing for about 2 hours each time.
Also HL2 at 4x anti aliasing without a glitch.
Either ways there is people who like their marketing, like putting a metal cover to keep the heat inside, but it's looks neatss on those mod pc for 15 years old kids.
I can say I got here the GS+ from gainward and now problems on the summer, no air conditioneer, about 80 C running Doom 3 at ultra high quality and 4X and playing for about 2 hours each time.
Also HL2 at 4x anti aliasing without a glitch.