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Why Nvidia?

Was funny at how bad your troll was no thought or anything. If you are being serious i suggest you take a look at the review thread with the graphs that put the gtx480 at around 8% faster over all the reviews.
 
have a search around the net, you will find that nvidia is the only manufacturer that makes graphics cards that are dx11 compliant, support CUDA and have hardware PHYSX support.

until someone else comes along with a card that can do all that nvidia will continue to rip us off.

we need competition and we need it asap.
 
The fastest Nvidia card you can buy now and maybe, for the foreseeable future is the GTX285.

The 5780 will be the fastest single core card, that %99.99 of people can buy as Nvidia have only paper launched.

Nvidia haven't sold a retail card in 7 months. Thats what is pushing up the prices Mav. Everyone is making up the short fall from ATI.
 
they have not out off the GT200b chips as they EOL those so Nv was only getting money on the rebrands and refreshes
 
again a local dj here as purchased a gtx275 last month for his video jockey machine.
just because ocuk dont have stock doesnt mean that no one else has the cards for sale. you just got to hunt around and find them.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
again a local dj here as purchased a gtx275 last month for his video jockey machine.
just because ocuk dont have stock doesnt mean that no one else has the cards for sale. you just got to hunt around and find them.
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I suspect he means nVidia themselves haven't sold one, ie to the board partners considering they're not being made any more.

A sale from a retailer isn't a sale from nVidia, they've already made their money on the card once it's at the retailer.
 
its not really more money for Nvidia through is it? just the original owner gets some money back of his/her buy
 
I think he should have said "made" not "sold" as NVidia EOLed (End Of Life) the G200b (GTX260/275/285/295) cards in October last year but that there was sufficient stock for people to still be able to buy some occasionally.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2857

NVIDIA told me two things. One, that they have shared with some OEMs that they will no longer be making GT200b based products. That’s the GTX 260 all the way up to the GTX 285. The EOL (end of life) notices went out recently and they request that the OEMs submit their allocation requests asap otherwise they risk not getting any cards.

The second was that despite the EOL notices, end users should be able to purchase GeForce GTX 260, 275 and 285 cards all the way up through February of next year.
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Yes cards form the last production run of 7 months ago are available at over inflated prices. Unfortunately they are so limited now you have to search hard and pay over the odds. It's just daft I tell yay.
 
quick search shows gtx260's selling at 135 quid inc free deliv at couple of other etailors. dint have to search hard for that or pay over the odds.??
 
Cyber-Mav said:
quick search shows gtx260's selling at 135 quid inc free deliv at couple of other etailors. dint have to search hard for that or pay over the odds.??
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When you can get 4890s for £120 and less then yes they are over priced.

As has been said, just because there are a few cards available doesn't mean nVidia is continuing to make money on them.
 
I have spotted a few non are not much over what Nvidia intended the RRP to be at anyway
 
Looking a bit harder they are all out of stock or at best second hand or B grade returns. Ironically its not till you get to the OverClockers ones where there are 1 or 2 in stock for £150+
 
My point is Nvidia are pushing up prices because they don't have any cards to sell. Its silly to say ATI need to offer a card with more pointless features to improve the situation. Nvidia need to replace the whole range of gt 200 cards with competitive ATI alternatives.

We have a situation that Nvidia are failing so bad, competitors and partners are absorbing the failure by business osmosis. This state of suspended animation Nvidia are in is hurting the industry badly.
 
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