NVIDIA G92 shortages may soon be over

I've had the opportunity to talk to several video card manufacturers, either directly or indirectly, about shortages in 8800GT video cards in Europe. Many of the manufacturers that were kind enough to send me a response back indicate that many shortages should begin to see some relief sometime at the end of January. I'd like to point out that 8800GTS 512 meg cards are also affected by this shortage.

NVIDIA shortages still evident in Europe

NVIDIA is a great company. Unfortunately there are shortages of their newest parts in Europe. Primarily the 8800 GT videocards and 780i motherboards. I contacted some retailers and they hope to have shipments in January but what I would like to know is what is causing the problems and how will NVIDIA rectify these shortages?

Shortages of these items will no doubt show some lost revenue for the 4th quarter of 2007.

NVIDIA and Intel are my personal best PC companies of the year!

In looking over the tremendous contributions of all the major PC companies this year I have to say with all honestly that Intel and NVIDIA are my personal best favorites in the PC business in 2007. Intel continues their domination of AMD with dual and quad core CPUs that are of top notch quality. Although I certainly stress that I believe their quad core extreme CPUs are overpriced the pros of their outstanding work certainly outweighs the minor cons. NVIDIA continues to show that their 8XXX series of video cards are the best in the business although even their top line video cards can't seem to handle the game Crysis as well as everyone hoped.

Did NVIDIA read my posts?

Apparently NVIDIA is in negotiations with TSMC, according to a rumor. Hopefully if the rumor is true NVIDIA can resolve the 8800GT shortage. I wonder if NVIDIA read my blog?

Did NVIDIA shoot themselves in the foot?

I am a staunch supporter of NVIDIA, and have been for many years. With the arrival of the 8800 GT NVIDIA has presented us with an outstanding product at a price point most people can afford. It's unfortunately that some retailers decided to sell these video cards at way beyond the M.S.R.P (manufacturer's suggested retail price). However that is not what this article is about. This article will simply ask why NVIDIA has not produced enough for these video cards for the sales channels plus OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) for the Christmas season when this is the best time to sell? Some retailers in Europe are not anticipating shipments of these video cards until January. If there are great numbers of these retailers then NVIDIA will certainly see a loss in the fiscal 4th quarter for this year. (NOTE: NVIDIA will make a lot of money this fiscal 4th quarter only they could have made significantly more with ample supply of 8800 GTs) Perhaps it should behoove NVIDIA to hack some prices out of their 8800 GTX and 8800 Ultra lineup to keep sales running briskly. NVIDIA seems like they did not prepare for such an onslaught demand of the 8800 GT video cards. A video card that performs so well and is priced superbly.

Editor's Note: On rare occasions I receive video cards for testing and evaluation but no one has any in stock for me to test. I could not find an 8800 GT EVGA video card anywhere in stock.

EVGA Mods Rigs

Do you have a PC you built or put together you'd like to show off? Well take a look at the EVGA mods rigs and see if you wish to post your system specs for all to see. More information is posted here:

http://www.evga.com/community/ModsRigs/

EVGA introduces SSC 8800GT

EVGA has introduced a Super Super Clocked (SSC) 8800 GT with a clock speed of 700MHZ and 2000 MHZ memory speed. You can find information abou this new video card here:

http://www.evga.com/articles/378.asp

Microsoft Vista nvlddmkm NVIDIA driver error

I am still surprised that there are quite a few people still receiving the nvlddmkm error when using NVIDIA based video cards. What I'll try to do here is to see if I can help to solve this error. Are my methods going to fix this problem for all of you? Perhaps not but I hope that the actions below will help many of you:

1. Go into the control panel of your Vista PC and remove any NVIDIA drivers that are there.
2. Restart your PC and then download a driver removal program similar to this one:

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1672

3. After this has been run restart your PC again.
4. After rebooting your PC do a search for nvlddmkm and make sure you do a thorough search of your entire PC file system to include hidden and system files. Delete it if found.
5. Reload your PC and/or motherboard manufacturer's chipset drivers
6. Load the last NVIDIA WHQL driver posted on the NVIDIA website for your Microsoft Vista operating system.
****Added on October 13: If for any reason the above steps do not work and you have 2GB of ram try safely removing one stick of ram to see if the problem continues. Some people have reported that a faulty memory module may also cause this****

New videocards to come in November?

Christmas is coming and the smell of new videocard technology is in the air. Probably in November we'll see some new videocards from both ATI and NVIDIA just in time for the Christmas shopping season and in plenty of time for OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) to include the videocard hardware in their PCs for Christmas.