IF THE GEFORCE FX 5800 Ultra never sees the light of day, where will Nvidia go from here?
In fact, Nvidia has at last contacted the INQ and told us the following: "The rumours are untrue, we are full speed ahead on FX 5800 Ultra. Like every new high end GPU we have built in the last five years, initial demand will outstrip supply so it will be on allocation."
Which particular rumours Nvidia is talking about remains unclear.
Nvidia does intend, meanwhile, to ship the 5800 standard part (clocked at 400/800) with a more-normal cooling solution and a lower price. This suggests that the GF FX 5800 Ultra was running in a heavily overclocked situation when shipped for testing. When overclocking a CPU or video card, one will eventually hit a performance wall where increasingly drastic methods of cooling are necessary to eke smaller and smaller performance gains from a product.
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