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Subject: Nvidia collection of companies?
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I am searching for a good, graphics cards, and i decided to look at Nvidia. I was looking in COMPUSA when i noticed a graphics card made by PNY, but it had a nvidia stamp on it. Other companies do the same thing such as Verto and Asylum. Are these guaranteed 100% Nvidia products, or are they cheap immitations? Thanks for the feedback!

  • 11.28.2004 8:42 PM PDT
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no, thats not true, but I can tell you that these companies are making the nvidia cards too


the cards that are made by Nvidia themselves, are the genuine cards, so look for the boxes that dont have any other artwork and logos on them, if you want your choice to be genuine.

PNY is a good company, ive heard Verto is ok, same with evga.
these are all brands that make the same exact crads nvidia is making, but thier making it too, so therefore the are generic brands

these cards are good too, their just not made only by nvidia. So if you see another brand name on the graphics card box, dont just say screw this, go and find out from different places which is a good generic brand like the ones above. try tom's harware.com

  • 11.28.2004 9:57 PM PDT
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Nvidia makes the chipset GPU, the core and center of the video card. From there, they sell those chips to companies like PNY, BFG, Asus, and etc. Those companies then make the Geforce cards of what we see today. So either way you're still buying a 100% Nvidia powered card.

  • 11.29.2004 12:59 AM PDT
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Heyyo,

Yep, it's like how Ekul said it man, Nvidia designs and sells the main components, other companies buy them and sell the finished product. ;)

There's some brands that do the same for ATI.

You have to be careful though, cause some brands replace the reccomended peices with like, lower end peices of -blam!-, and then like, you get the card, use it, and it dies on you. Older black PC boards that Sapphire used for their videocards before used cheap ram, and that ram failed a lot... so just cause the other companys one's cheaper doesn't make it equal in quality... so yeah, try to stick with big brand names for videocards, and you're guaranteed a solid product, but sometimes you'll find a good side one, I dunno any for Nvidia, but I know now to be skeptical with Sapphire videocards. :p

  • 11.29.2004 9:26 AM PDT