nVIDIA doesnt support GFFX 5800 anymore?

**Shadow Lady** · May 26th, 2003

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=fx_desktop

or what?

I know the GFFX 5800 werent that great, but now nVIDIA is not going to release this chip anymore?

May 26th, 2003

Quote:

Originally posted by Hate Lady
http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=fx_desktop

or what?

I know the GFFX 5800 werent that great, but now nVIDIA is not going to release this chip anymore?

Nvidia never intended to release more than 100,000 of these cards. The FX 5800 is basically replaced with the 5,900, The Nv30 wasn't really the best thing Nvidia has ever made. So I imagine they don't really want to acknowledge it's existence

**fivefeet8** · May 26th, 2003

The fx5900 is what the 5800 should have been in the first place anyways. :eyes:

Chinoz · May 26th, 2003

About time they did something like that.

**DarkAurora** · May 26th, 2003

I think the 5800 owners should be able to ship their cards to NVidia and get 5900's just because of the screensaver bug.

May 26th, 2003

Quote:

Originally posted by DarkAurora
I think the 5800 owners should be able to ship their cards to NVidia and get 5900's just because of the screensaver bug.

You know that was fixed with a driver right?

**DarkAurora** · May 26th, 2003

Oh ok. Then why is the 5800 considered such a flop then? I thought it was just because of the screensaver bug.

**Demigod** · May 26th, 2003

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Originally posted by DarkAurora
Oh ok. Then why is the 5800 considered such a flop then? I thought it was just because of the screensaver bug.

Because of its lousy performance and sub-par features. Just look at the benchmark scores of the FX 5800 and the FX 5900 and you'll see why the 5800 was considered such a failure. Plus products aren't dismissed because of one little bug. As with so many products it's performance and features that determine success or failure.

**DarkAurora** · May 26th, 2003

It wasn't a little bug. The screensaver bug would cause the 5800 to overheat to the point that it could possibly fry the card.

**Kane** · May 26th, 2003

>It wasn't a little bug. The screensaver bug would cause the 5800 to overheat to the point that it could possibly fry the card.

It didn't fry the card. It got quite hot. Hot enough to get the machine to shut down, but it didn't fry chips (at least according to nVidia). Futher, it only happened in certain stressful 3d screensavers.

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Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	>It wasn't a little bug. The screensaver bug would cause the 5800 to overheat to the point that it could possibly fry the card. It didn't fry the card. It got quite hot. Hot enough to get the machine to shut down, but it didn't fry chips (at least according to nVidia). Futher, it only happened in certain stressful 3d screensavers. __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

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May 26th, 2003	#5 (permalink)
DarkAurora Back from the dead Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Seymour, TN Posts: 3,735	I think the 5800 owners should be able to ship their cards to NVidia and get 5900's just because of the screensaver bug.

May 26th, 2003	#7 (permalink)
DarkAurora Back from the dead Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Seymour, TN Posts: 3,735	Oh ok. Then why is the 5800 considered such a flop then? I thought it was just because of the screensaver bug.

May 26th, 2003	#9 (permalink)
DarkAurora Back from the dead Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Seymour, TN Posts: 3,735	It wasn't a little bug. The screensaver bug would cause the 5800 to overheat to the point that it could possibly fry the card.