Gainward Cards a Thing of the Past in the USA

[BadThad]

Originally posted by: Auric
Oh noes, no more Gaywad Golden Showers! How will we get by with only a dozen other NVIDIA board makers?

LMFAO!

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
Perhaps when they say multimedia products they mean vid cards with fully functional PVP for video encoding&decoding plus in addition, soundstorm2 audio encoding&decoding. Huang has dropped some hints that SS would come back in a form that would be surprising, so who knows? Whomever does can't say anyways

The malfunctioning PVP is actually a Sound Storm chip, that needs to be activated by a MS update.

 

[eplebnista]

Originally posted by: BW86

Originally posted by: shady06
that sucks

 

[RadeonGuy]

That really sucks of the one time i owned one of their cards. Too bad they didnt make for ATI chips

 

[darkswordsman17]

Yes 'tis a sad day if they're no longer going to make graphics cards here.

I've loved my Golden Sample GT. Excellent card, although I'm gonna replace it with a PCI-Ex BFG one.

 

[ELopes580]

Good Riddance. Horrrible tech support and customer service. I go with BFG now.

 

[Auric]

Gaywad's parent company has now exited graphics altogether and sold the brand.

digitimes

 

[eplebnista]

Originally posted by: Auric
Gaywad's parent company has now exited graphics altogether and sold the brand.

digitimes

Originally posted by: BW86

Originally posted by: shady06
that sucks

x2

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: amheck
Personally, I don't understand why a global company like that would choose to cut off such a big market.

Ask Hercules. It seems like it's tough to compete as just another NVidia reference-board OEM.

 

[krcat1]

The digitimes article seems to suggest that the new owner wants to use the Gainward name to enter the highend card market.
There is an article in the theinquirer.com that suggests that the new owners could be more committed to the video card market.

Whenever a US company uses a brand name for this reason, the new products seem to crash-and-burn. Maybe the Germans can do better.