deficiency in geofrce 6800 ultra and ATI 800 PE

[moh2004]

Hello,

Why it is really hard to find these two products in the market? There is a real diminution in producing them. The online sites are always puting them as coming products from August of 2004!

Is it a problem with the chipsets that ATI & nVidia did not talk about it. Or it is a financial problem with the manufactures such as Asus and MSI and others, or what?

 

[DusterAZ]

I don't think there is any problem getting 6800 Ultra in the AGP flavor, in PCI-E they are harder to find though.

 

[SaberDicer]

Originally posted by: DusterAZ
I don't think there is any problem getting 6800 Ultra in the AGP flavor, in PCI-E they are IMPOSSIBLE to find though.

Fixed.

 

[moh2004]

DusterAZ,

I guess it is really hard to find them in the form that you find old cards such as 5900, 5700, 5200 and others.

Shouldn't be available much more than old cards as they were realesd 6 months ago or more?

Also, what you can find now is evga, while Asus and MSI are extremley hard to find, and when you find them, you'll find them in a very high price!

I'm sure there is something wrong!

 

[BentValve]

eVGA recently saturated the market with 6800 GTs and 6800 Ultras in AGP..probably enough to sustain the demand entirely for a good while and enough to get prices down a bit over the next few months...they have the capability to saturate it again with PCI-E and id wager that they are working hard on doing just that right now.

 

[cubby1223]

After the ever pleasent FX5800, I wouldn't be surprised if manufacturers are unwilling to take the chances on making a ton of ultra-high end products.

 

[housecat]

Originally posted by: cubby1223
After the ever pleasent FX5800, I wouldn't be surprised if manufacturers are unwilling to take the chances on making a ton of ultra-high end products.

dont let rollo hear you say that.

 

[McArra]

Originally posted by: housecat

Originally posted by: cubby1223
After the ever pleasent FX5800, I wouldn't be surprised if manufacturers are unwilling to take the chances on making a ton of ultra-high end products.

dont let rollo hear you say that.

LOL!!!!

 

[dug777]

shhhhhh

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: cubby1223
After the ever pleasent FX5800, I wouldn't be surprised if manufacturers are unwilling to take the chances on making a ton of ultra-high end products.

Allow me to post 30 links that prove the FX5800 is the best card, evah!



In answer to the OP:
1. Low yields on new chips that will run at close to theoretical maximums for die size
2. Shortage of 1.6ns GDDR3

I don't think anyone is "gun shy" about producing these, it's been a seller's market since launch.