OCZ to re-enter graphics card market

Author: Tim Smalley
Published: 11th December 2006
Comments (9) Stumble
OCZ to re-enter graphics card market

OCZ will launch speed screened GeForce 8800-series graphics cards soon. The announcement will probably be made at CES.

OCZ Technology has announced that it will re-enter the graphics card market with products based on NVIDIA's awesome GeForce 8800 series during its Asia Pacific Summit in Taipei, Taiwan.

The company has dabbled in graphics before, with a selection of pre-overclocked GeForce 3 series graphics cards that were heavily focused on providing class-leading performance.

That isn't going to change this time around because OCZ will "speed screen" its GeForce 8800-series products, according to sources close to the company. However, due to NVIDIA seemingly preventing its partners from overclocking retail cards, OCZ will leave the actual tweaking to the end user.

NVIDIA's GeForce 8800 overclocking inhibition has cropped up again and this time it seems to confirm what many partners have told us. This is despite the fact that when we questioned Tony Tamassi, Vice President of Technical Marketing at NVIDIA, about partner overclocking, he told us that NVIDIA wasn't going to prevent partners from increasing the clock speeds on retail products.

With that said, we have had some indications from NVIDIA's partners suggesting that pre-overclocked cards are being held back until AMD/ATI announces the R600 graphics processor early next year, because NVIDIA doesn't have any competition in the graphics market at the moment.

I guess we can expect some formal announcements and more complete details at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, early next month.
Quote M4RTIN 11th December 2006, 16:34
i heard about this the other day and tbh i cant see them doing more than putting a different sticker on the card. unless they offer something special like evga's stepup program ocz is just another name in the vast sea of nvidia partners
Quote DXR_13KE 11th December 2006, 17:39
lets hope it has something extra that will make people buy it..... and that it has good quality.
Quote JADS 11th December 2006, 17:45
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Originally Posted by DXR_13KE
lets hope it has something extra that will make people buy it..... and that it has good quality.

It'll be made by Asus with a OCZ sticker slapped on it and a £50 price premium for the l33tness :(
Quote Duste 12th December 2006, 03:04
GeForce 3? Woah, that was way before my time. :P
Quote Tim S 12th December 2006, 07:54
Quote:
Originally Posted by JADS
It'll be made by Asus with a OCZ sticker slapped on it and a £50 price premium for the l33tness :(
Flextronics makes the GeForce 8800 cards.
Quote Bindibadgi 12th December 2006, 10:52
I dont even remember the GF3 OCZ cards!? Time for a google image search..
Quote Mankz 29th December 2006, 11:23
Here's a little update on the Subject...::

OCZ GeForce 8800 GTX

Its a shme about the Green PCB, but its nice to see lots of different HSF cover designs ect.

AJ Manktelow.
Quote rowin4kicks 29th December 2006, 11:42
yea they go to the trouble of making the pci plate black but cant use a black pcb
shame i thought they were cool
Quote M4RTIN 29th December 2006, 14:29
wow a different sticker
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