No-one else loves NVIDIA. Who cares?

[HEXUS]

NVIDIA congratulates itself on a job well done, but surely a CPU needs to figure in the world's-best platform somewhere, right?

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[Hicks12]

bah, no-one else cares because it hasnt been an improvement in graphic design etc, look i can slap too 8800gts in one box and give the same performance as sli but cost more, now the best graphics card in the world. That was just fail , and the 9800gtx is nothing special, perhaps new type of ram as it can clock a 100/200mhz higher then an 8800GTS but thats nothing when compared too this time its taken and nothing new.

Maybe nvidia should try and build a single gpu too actually beat itself (except for the new line comming in, be a flop right?)>

[explicitlyrics]

bah, no-one else cares because it hasnt been an improvement in graphic design etc, look i can slap too 8800gts in one box and give the same performance as sli but cost more, now the best graphics card in the world. That was just fail , and the 9800gtx is nothing special, perhaps new type of ram as it can clock a 100/200mhz higher then an 8800GTS but thats nothing when compared too this time its taken and nothing new.

Maybe nvidia should try and build a single gpu too actually beat itself (except for the new line comming in, be a flop right?)>

Google doesn't seem to be able to translate this...?

[Hicks12]

what dont you understand? summary..... nvidia haven't released sufficient new technology for awhile and is now stagnant and confusing the market with all these new naming schemes, nvidia should be doing something as apposed too congratulating themselves, they haven't done anything new with 2 boards stuck together at least amd had 2 cores on 1 pcb.

[kalniel]

If your products always beat out the opposition then what's wrong with appearing to be stagnant?

[chrestomanci]

In my opinion, everyone would be better off if nVidia got out of the chipset business, and concentrated on what they do best: discreet graphics cards.

If they did that, they would not have to cosy up to their arch rivals (AMD), or soon to be rivals (Intel) for licenses to build chipsets that interface with their processors, so they would be able to concentrate their efforts on designing the best graphics cards possible.

I have never been that keen on nVidia chipsets. They are expensive, the performance benefit of the higher end stuff has not been that great, and the drivers are often flaky. Consider for example the recent news from Microsoft that nVidia are responsible for half of all crashes under Vista. If you have a longer memory you will remember similar problems with the integrated firewall on nForce 3 era chipsets. At one time nForce was good for low end boards with integrated everything, but now that both Intel and ATI have stepped up and are selling decent boards at low cost, I don’t think that it would be any great loss to see nVidia leave this part of the market as well.

Also because they would not be making chipsets, they would be able to get rid of the fiction that you need an nForce chipset in order to run SLI. It is fairly well know that SLI does not need any feature that is unique to nForce chipsets in order to work, it is just a bit of protectionism enforced by the driver. (The recent Intel skulltrail board has a pair of nVidia PCI express bridges on it for no reason other than to be recognized by the driver so that SLI works). If that protectionism was removed then consumers would benefit as they would be able to run SLI on a wider choice of boards with more stability. nVidia would probably profit in the long run from selling more graphics cards.

[-iceblade^]

nVidia should sod off IMO.

they ought to be fixing drivers and boosting performance instead of releasing 2006's tech over and over again... they just seem content to leech off of the consumer... Look at Intel - they're boosting performance even whilst AMD is not doing well. nVidia should learn a lesson from that book...

[kchakkar]

I think they overcharge compared to ATI. Performance wise there little difference, but price wise there is around £15+. It will be good if they get brought out by intel.