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nVidia 6800 Ultra as rare as hens' Doc Marten boots |
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Written by Phyro
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Thursday, 07 October 2004 |
The Inquirer has had many mails from people who want to buy GeForce 6800 Ultra cards in Europe and US but they simply could not find any of them, anywhere. We asked nVidia about this but nVidia said that it doesn't have any yield problems and that shops have GeForce 6800 Ultra in quantity. We neglected to check on GeForce 6800 Ultra retail availability as our gimlet-like eyes were fixed on the catastrophically hard to get X800XT PE card.
 nVidia 6800 Ultra as rare as hens' Doc Marten boots
Many of The Inquirer readers pointed that you cannot find any GeForce 6800 Ultra apart from one Gainward 850 € water cooled 6800 Ultra in retail.
I checked myself and you can clearly see that you won't find any available in either the Western or the Eastern reichs. Some shops have up to 20 reserved so if I was an nVidia partner I would ship them to my customers if I had them. It's obvious that they don't have them.
The same goes for US market search engine Pricewatch, where you can find some of the cards for as much as $758. Auch. None of the cards are actually available apart from this very cheap $758 baby but you might need to wait for this once you order.
We will try to ask nVidia where are the cards as just recently nVidia was very optimistic about their volumes last time we spoke. It seems that things are not that nice as they want us to believe.
We will be happy to share the links once nVidia possibly feeds us with links where you can actually buy GeForce 6800 Ultra cards, so keep you eyes skinned, you might be able to buy some of them from the links we post for you.
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