FX 5800 will never make it

[Gixxer420]

GFFX Ultra No More:
As we noted here earlier this week, the GeForceFX 5800 Ultra will never make it to retail. Those of you that PreBuy the cards will still get an Ultra model with the FX Flow cooling unit. Those who don't will have the opportunity to get the non-Ultra version (400/800) off the retail shelves for a price of US$300.00. This information is unconfirmed at this time, but has been what we have been told repeatedly by different sources since Tuesday of this week.

Anyone have a working and complete Voodoo5 6000 version 3 or better they want to trade for a working v1.1 GFFX 5800 Ultra? Drop me a line.

Also, at this time it seems that the BFGTech GFFX Ultra is still for sale through Best Buy. Get'um while they are hot...not that they ever won't be.


http://www.hardocp.com/index.html#6494-1

[CiKoTiC]

Due to heavy allocation of the FX 5800 Ultra chips, as of Sunday, February 9th the Asylum GeForce FX 5800 Ultra is no longer available for preorder at Best Buy. We will fulfill the preorders once the Ultras are available for shipping, which is expected to be March 9 or sooner.

Consumers who have ordered the Asylum GeForce FX 5800 Ultra from Best Buy stores should check Best Buy.com for updates on when the cards are available for pick up at the store from which they were ordered. Consumers who have ordered online from Best Buy.com will get the card shipped to them when it is available.

Moving forward, BFG Tech will be bringing Asylum GeForce FX 5800 (non-ultra) to retail shelves. This card has a 400MHZ core clock and 800MHz DDR2 memory. It does not feature the FX Flow cooling system, but does have a high-profile fansink that requires the PCI slot adjacent to the AGP slot to be available. The Asylum GeForce FX 5800 offers 8 pixels per clock, 160 Million vertices per second, 25.6GB memory bandwidth (with compression) and 3.2 billion pixels per second fill rate. The card is fully DX9 compliant with Vertex Shader 2.0+ and Pixel Shader 2.0+, CineFX Engine, Intellisample Technology, and 128-bit studio-precision color.

We expect to have this product shipping in March at a retail price of $329.99

John Malley
Director, Marketing and PR
[BFG Technologies]
86 Albrecht Drive
Lake Bluff, IL 60044
www.bfgtech.com


3Dfx-itis. :P

[Gixxer420]

kinda funny how all the people that have eat sleep and breath nvidia are leaning more and more towards ati. As of right now. May change when nvidia gets back up of the floor but by then hopefully ati will be long gone.

[Jason425]

i was completely switched to ati.. but since i lost my 9500 during conversion to 9700.. i'm not pleased.. I'll be using a g3 ti200 until i absolutely have to upgrade or another good deal comes out.