XFX joins ATi

LoadsaMoney · 12 Dec 2008 at 17:46

We've managed to confirm that XFX will join the ATI camp at the start of the new year. XFX won't drop Nvidia products either, but obviously, Nvidia won't be thrilled by this turn of events.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10918&Itemid=1

Monkeynut · 12 Dec 2008 at 17:55

With what's going on with money it doesn't surprise me. XFX probably trying to scrape every £/$ in.

Schnippzle · 12 Dec 2008 at 18:08

Good stuff

milkinc13 · 12 Dec 2008 at 19:15

does this mean longer warrenty for ATi cards?

Helios1234 · 12 Dec 2008 at 19:22

^ Only EVGA and BFG offer 10 years warranty. XFX only do 2-3 iirc.

Alexrose1uk · 12 Dec 2008 at 19:28

Of all the good partners they could have had to have *possibly* gone for XFX (gainward I could understand)...

TheRealDeal · 12 Dec 2008 at 19:34

Personally on price performance if i was buying a gtx260 i would probably get the xfx black edition its the fastest on the market and no where near the most expensive. xfx make fast cards and cheaper than most so its not all bad with a decent customer service they would be near the best cards to buy.

gurusan · 12 Dec 2008 at 20:30

Sounds great. My first nvidia card was a XFX 6800GS XXX edition....it was awesomeness!

queamin · 12 Dec 2008 at 20:50

TheRealDeal said:
Personally on price performance if i was buying a gtx260 i would probably get the xfx black edition its the fastest on the market and no where near the most expensive. xfx make fast cards and cheaper than most so its not all bad with a decent customer service they would be near the best cards to buy.

with a decent customer service this is the important part

arc@css · 13 Dec 2008 at 10:30

Visiontek are the only card manufacturers that I am aware of who offer 10year warranty re : ati. They are like the equivalent to EVGA. Try and get hold of one in this country though

Come on Overclockers!

Richdog · 13 Dec 2008 at 10:31

All we need now are BFG to jump on the bandwagon... ATI + 10 year warranty = sex-wee.

arc@css · 13 Dec 2008 at 10:32

Alexrose1uk said:
Of all the good partners they could have had to have *possibly* gone for XFX (gainward I could understand)...

I'm not a fan of XFX, though I expect they've sorted out some of their faults of late.

tipsy · 13 Dec 2008 at 10:37

XFX has been manufacturing ati cards once before, ok this may have been years ago but but the parent company Pine issued cards by different chipsets, ati, cirrus, ali. mind tjis was 10 years ago when i was a sytem builder.. Thank god i'm a nurse now

meet women this way... btw last part has no relevance :0

LoadsaMoney · 13 Dec 2008 at 12:29

Richdog said:
All we need now are BFG to jump on the bandwagon... ATI + 10 year warranty = sex-wee.

esK` · 13 Dec 2008 at 12:43

XFX are 2 year warranty found out the hard way on a 8800GTX

gurusan · 13 Dec 2008 at 14:03

I thought they changed it to lifetime.

ACESHIGH · 13 Dec 2008 at 14:26

more choice for us consumers is always a good thing

LoadsaMoney · 13 Dec 2008 at 15:24

4870 BLACK EDITION anyone.

TheRealDeal · 13 Dec 2008 at 15:52

LoadsaMoney said:
4870 BLACK EDITION anyone.

rv775xt black edition lol imagine what the stock clocks will be on that if the 900mhz clocks are true.

gurusan · 13 Dec 2008 at 15:52

1ghz core and 5ghz memory!