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NVIDIA to Phase Out 7800GTX 512MB in February

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the it's-our-best-so-get-rid-of-it dept.

THG writes "CoolTechZone.com has the latest information from NVIDIA regarding the company's plans to discontinue its top of the line graphics card, the 7800GTX 512MB. The article says, "Well, we've been hearing rumors about this for a while, but we finally heard it from the horse's mouth not too long ago. Recent conversations with insiders at NVIDIA have led us to believe that their top of the line card, the 7800GTX 512MB will be out of production sometime in Q1 next year, most likely somewhere around February '06."

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  1. Re:Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A quick google search shows that the 7800 GTX is having memory supply issues and it's quite expensive, some $200 more than the leading ATI.

  2. Re:Why? by tomstdenis · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Chances are it's just too expensive to produce, sales are not there and finally common sense won a battle.

    When people are still buying 6600/6800 cards as their "desired choice" it's not hard to see the 7800 as a failed product in terms of making the company money.

    It's along the lines of the AMD FX-57 which most stores don't carry and it can take a week or more to order in. Just isn't much sales for a 1300$ processor :-)

    [though I'd get one if I weren't so poor :-)]

    Tom

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