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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. bloody 'leet gamerz' by RobertTaylor · · Score: 5, Funny

    Glad to see that the difference between 2467 and 2550 frames per second is still very important...

    fp?

  2. "Ultra Cancelation" is lame by sql*kitten · · Score: 1, Funny

    They should have called it the UltraCancelotron 5000XX or something.

    1. Re:"Ultra Cancelation" is lame by Jugalator · · Score: 3, Funny

      lol, this is funny dammit :-)

      I actually had to read the topic a few times before I got that the "Cancellation" wasn't part of the product name.

      "Rumors of a GeForceFX 5800 Ultra Cancelation?"

      Wow, that's an innovative product name. I wonder how good it is? lol

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  3. Re:Important? by Patrick+May · · Score: 5, Funny

    I agree that it's important. When I'm MUDding, I need to see that next line of text come up instantly! Otherwise, the next thing I see will be You are looking down at your body from above....

  4. Hardly surprising... by MarcoAtWork · · Score: 4, Funny

    I mean, the Geforce 5 6000^H^H^H^H^H^H5800 while having A LOT of drawbacks (noise, takes up two slots, probably lots of heat) doesn't seem to have very much going for it over the ATI's offerings. The only thing right now is driver quality, but as far as I am hearing ATI is getting better at this lately...

    Note, I'm not an ATI fanboy (actually I'm running a GeForce1 right now) but I'm really appalled at what 3dfx^H^H^H^HNVidia was thinking when they created this card...

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  5. In Business News Today... by Quaoar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Video card giant nVidia officially changed it's name today to 3dfx. Five minutes later the company declared bankruptcy.

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  6. The REAL reason it was cancelled by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    it was cancelled because Hoover sued them for anticompetitive practices. Black and Decker was not available for comment.

  7. Visiontek jabs from beyond the grave by doormat · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.visiontek.com

    Make sure you have your speakers on..

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  8. Re:Annoyances by I+Am+The+Owl · · Score: 1, Funny
    I'm not a gamer, in any way, shape or form...and could care less about 3D acceleration

    How much less?

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  9. Re:Important? by nunofgs · · Score: 4, Funny

    HAH!!! between all your wisdom I found an error!!! the proper q3 command for capping the frame rates is actually com_maxfps! :)

  10. nooo by handsome_robot · · Score: 3, Funny

    Damn! I had several dozen of these things on pre-order, too.

    My plans to build a hovercraft are smoot!!

    *shakes fist upwardly*

  11. Quote by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Nvidia thought they were buying 100 3dfx engineers, little did they know it was the management team in disguise."