VisionTek dead....

[Actaeon]

Linky

 

[N8Magic]

Wow, I guess that would explain the steep rebates they've been offering on their cards lately. Move out all the excess inventory in order to increase revenues at any cost.

As stated in the article, this could spell trouble for nVidia and their NV30 release, as Visiontek was one of their largest card manufacturers.

I guess Visiontek's lifetime warranty on their cards has just expired.

 

[spanky]

Originally posted by: Actaeon
Linky

that SUUUUUUUUX!!! now i can't rma my gf3 if it dies

 

[GT1999]

Now I know WHY I was able to get my GF3 Ti200 for $99 last November.. it was indeed too good to be true.

The card does work great though! I liked their site and everything they did, too

 

[Actaeon]

From Hard OCP:

More VisionTek Woes:
In July we told you about VisionTek giving their employees pink slips on the 4th of July weekend, it seems that VisionTek is in even more trouble right now. Friday employees were given their final checks with severance packages not being honored and rumors that Mail-In-Rebates will not be honored as well. As you can imagine this is even more disappointing to hear, if it all proves to be true. As always, we?ll keep you up to date. Thanks to Lobo the Toilet Duck for the tip.

I bolded what I wanted to point out...

Uh oh...

 

[gohan]

Originally posted by: spankyOO7

Originally posted by: Actaeon
Linky

that SUUUUUUUUX!!! now i can't rma my gf3 if it dies

My card died Friday night.

 

[DanFungus]

nooo! they had great cards

 

[Adul]

NOOOOOOO!!! i had one card to rma too

 

[clicknext]

Wow, why do you buy cards from them if they die so easily?

 

[spanky]

Originally posted by: clicknext
Wow, why do you buy cards from them if they die so easily?

we don't buy cards expecting them to die, but having a good warranty is always nice.

 

[John]

No wonder their cards were more expensive than the competitors....

 

[Brian48]

Well, this really sux. I was pretty much sold on Visiontek cards (got 5 of them). All them are good performers and overclock very well.

 

[GT1999]

Originally posted by: clicknext
Wow, why do you buy cards from them if they die so easily?

Here we go..

Now that the company is dead, all we're going to hear is how 'bad' or 'defective' their cards were. Mine's great, and everybody I know who has one has 0 problems with them. Almost all of the GeForceX line of cards are identical anyway except for maybe the addition of TV-out/DVI; the only manufacturers I know of that don't use the reference design or close to it are Asus and Canopus (whom I haven't heard from in a while). There might be others, but the point is that most of these cards are nearly identical.

 

[Citadel535]

This is odd though. Isn't VisionTek the biggest provider of the generic video cards used by Dell. Gateway, etc in their systems?

That means that the companies are now looking for bigger contract term sales. I would go with PNY if I were them. Maybe Crucial can enter the market Hehe

 

[Slacker]

So who will make nvidias cards now, like the article said PNY cant handle the demand alone

Wait, I think I remember hearing something about nvidia branded cards, was nvidia going to make their own or put their name on a card made by visiontek?

 

[bluemax]

Holy crap!! :Q

Remember Anand's article on the 9700 where he mentioned that because the 9700 is avaiable now* (* = very, very soon) and the NV30 is not going to arrive for a while, nVidia is going to lose some ground.

With the LARGEST nVidia retail supplier gone, the current GF3/4MX/4 cards are also going to vanish from the market during the critical Christmas season.
Unless another vendow steps up production BIGTIME, ATI is going to gain back some big market share over the next few months - especially with the low-priced, full-featured, easy-and-cheap-to-make Radeon 9000 series.

ATI and partners have a huge advantage right now............
I wonder what'll happen?

 

[bluemax]

darn my spelling sucks.... this is so ugly in 16-colour VGA mode.
Darn PCI video card conflicts.... I need my Radeon 9000 NOW! :|

 

[WyteWatt]

Oh thank goodness i did not buy a visiontek video card when i was trying to choose a GF4 ti series video card. Thank goodness it did not have a good bundle with it or i may have brought a visiontek. Thank you visiontek for not having good bundles with your video cards where leadtek does have good bundles.

 

[billyjak]

Good luck on the Rebates, mine took over 6 months to get and 3 phone calls.
I love their card though.

 

[clicknext]

Originally posted by: Geekish Thoughts

Originally posted by: clicknext
Wow, why do you buy cards from them if they die so easily?

Here we go..

Now that the company is dead, all we're going to hear is how 'bad' or 'defective' their cards were. Mine's great, and everybody I know who has one has 0 problems with them. Almost all of the GeForceX line of cards are identical anyway except for maybe the addition of TV-out/DVI; the only manufacturers I know of that don't use the reference design or close to it are Asus and Canopus (whom I haven't heard from in a while). There might be others, but the point is that most of these cards are nearly identical.

I only said that because there were 2 or 3 people in this very thread that said their cards died.

 

[UsandThem]

With the LARGEST nVidia retail supplier gone, the current GF3/4MX/4 cards are also going to vanish from the market during the critical Christmas season.

Does anybody here really think that Nvidia is going to sit by and watch ATI take a large portion of the market share. Nvidia has lots money and lots influence, and I am sure that at least one vendor out there is going to really benefit from Visiontek going out of business.

There are many video card makers out there, that with enough money and references cards given to them by Nvidia, can pump out enough cards to satisfy the very few hardware junkies that will run out and pay $499.00 for a video card when it first released so they can upload there 3dMark 2001 scores.

Don't get me wrong, if you have the money to do so fine, but I know I sure as hell will never spend over $299.00 for a video card regardless what it does.

Average consumers aka OEM (where Nvidia makes its real money) buy machines with Geforce 2 cards or onboard video

 

[eplebnista]

 

[joe678]

never had any video card die on me luckily...

 

[spanky]

Does anybody here really think that Nvidia is going to sit by and watch ATI take a large portion of the market share. Nvidia has lots money and lots influence, and I am sure that at least one vendor out there is going to really benefit from Visiontek going out of business.

the problem is that u can't just pick a mfr and expect them to be able to ramp up production to the point it will replace a company like visiontek overnight. nvidia is definitely gonna hurt over this one.

 

[Chadder007]

Umm actually MSI overtook Visiontek as the largest seller of NVidia chipset cards the past two months.....