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Rumors of a GeForceFX 5800 Ultra Cancelation?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-i-need-my-polygons dept.

chris_oat writes "It seems that nVidia's GeForceFX 5800 Ultra may never see the light of day after months of super-hype and annoying delays. This article on megarad.com suggests that poor manufacturing yields are causing nVidia to rethink plans for its (new?) flagship part. Lack of an "Ultra" type solution from nVidia would leave ATI's Radeon9700 uncontested as the defacto performance part."

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  1. hmph. not really surprised by netwiz · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I kinda figured that with the way nVidia's hardware likes to pop like lightbulbs, eventually they'd release a card that was dead out of the box. To date, I've had a grand total of seven nvidia products die on me. The first was a TNT2 Ultra, followed by a TNT, followed by the replacement Ultra, then two TNT2 ultras at work, then my Geforce4 4400, then it's replacement, another 4400. This doesn't include the number of cards that my friends have had fail. The number would then be into the twenties.

    If the 4200 I'm using as a replacement for the 4400 dies, I'm going to ATI, and not looking back.