visiontek is back

BlueWeasel

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Originally posted by: touchmyichi
visiontek was nvidia's best card maker, now ati has them.

Humm....I thought Gainward or Leadtek was Nvidia's best card maker...go figure :)

 

afireinsideme

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Actually they were one of the, if not biggest company's to push Nvidia products. They did high volume sales. They might not have been the best.... though. I don't remember 6 months ago walking to into best buy and being able to purchase a Gainward video card.
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cmdrdredd

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Nice...I'd probably buy a Visiontek 9700Pro or whatever if I didn't already have a ATI one. They were a good value and widely available.
 

Dean

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See the flask of the Nvidia Fairy getting blown away??? That was too funny!!
 

spanky

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can i still rma my nvidia card? i have a stock gf3... maybe they will send me a 9500 pro :p
 

1Brett

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From an Avault article:

"Hartford is honoring all XTASY retail product warranties to consumers who purchased VisionTek retail packaged products in the past and they're continuing to provide toll-free technical support on all current XTASY retail products purchased from VisionTek's retailers."

Take it for what it's worth. ;)

Brett
 

jiffylube1024

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Thats hilarious, they're now powered by ATI, but their entire drivers/support/info section is nVidia for the moment. It just looks funny. Like this [l=press release]http://www.visiontek.com/releases/06_18_02.shtml[/] just 6 months ago about how they're expanding their horizons with more nvidia cards.
 

MrCoyote

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That is cool that ATI has another board maker. Visiontek boards were always rated a good buy because of their price/performance ratings. It will be interesting to see more ATI stuff. But for now, my ATI 8500 will have to hold me over a few more months.
 

merlocka

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Careful, Visiontek has split into two camps. BFG tech and (the new) Visiontek.

Visiontek supposedly had some very good employee's and some very bad ones... I think we need to figure out who went where.
 

Lonyo

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The name is VisionTek because people know that name, the actual people and the whole company is not the same though. The people who took over Visiontek are launching a new range of ATi cards under the Visiontek name because people know/trust Visiontek, so it helps them marketing wise.
The bad employees might have thus been fired by the new owners (we can only hope)