VisionTek Folds

geogeek6_7 writes: "In a major shocker with potentially far reaching consquences, it seems that VisionTek, the number one producer of NVIDIA based graphics cards, will be foreclosed, and cease to exist. HardOCP has the details."

Comments

Visiontek doesn't even matter!

[fejji]

Let's see - GF4 cards are made by XFX, Leadtek/ Gainward, Asus, MSI, AOpen, PNY, Abit, Soltek, Chaintek, EVGA, Albatron, Pine, AND Visiontek (see newegg.com). Visiontek was a popular retail card in the US only and one of the few not made in China/Taiwan. You still have 12 of 13 manufacturers left - I can't imagine how they will pick up the slack!

The GeForce2 GTS is a good buy still

[Wee]

I've got a GeForce2 GTS Pro, the 64MB AGP one. I'm using it on this very PC. It's been a great card. I bought it (right after the GeForce3s had just been out, whenever that was) for like $75.00 brand new. I figured that I'd get the highest end of the previous model and save some cash to upgrade when another new model comes out. By all rights I should have bought a GeForce3 by now since they are getting cheap in the face of the GeForce4s, but the GTS Pro I have seems fine still. It doesn't have all the latest features (I don't think it does hardware T&L for example), but I haven't noticed any game I've played lagging at med-high settings on my AMD 1.33GHz (that includes MoH:AA, SoF2, GTA3, and even the new Battlefield 1942 demo).

I was going to get a Geforce4 Ti not too long ago, figuring I'd already "saved" money by leaping the GeForce3 upgrade and could therefore justify spending more to get the newest high-end card, but I just don't feel the need. Works great in Windows, works great in Linux, reasonably fast, not that hot as long as I have my extra fans on, so it's all good.

If anyone needs a fair-to-decent 3D card with good dual-boot support, grab the GeForce2 GTS like T-Kir says. It's a bargain, even still.

-B