About Me
- RR Johnson Jr.
- At the age of 18 I left home and served 20 years in the United States Air Force, retiring honorably from miltary service. I currently reside in Europe. A very special thanks to P.J. who continues to inspire me
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Is Intel slow getting dual cores into the channel?
I've been waiting for weeks now for Intel to get some E8400 dual core processors shipped to a store close to me. Amazingly there are none to be found. Intel has normally been quite good about making sure there are enough of their fast selling CPUs into the sales channels but this time they are very slow in response to demand. Even in the USA if you look up a store such as www.newegg.com who is one of the best on line PC stores out there they are out of stock as well.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
NVIDIA slowly getting stock into Europe
Some G92 video cards are beginning to slowly come into European supply channels but many vendors still have no stock. Some 780 chipset motherboards are slowly making their way into the channel as well but still well short of demand.
It will be interesting indeed to see if NVIDIA responds to the ATI/AMD release of the 3870 x2 video card in the weeks to come.
It will be interesting indeed to see if NVIDIA responds to the ATI/AMD release of the 3870 x2 video card in the weeks to come.
Labels:
780i,
chipsets,
motherboards,
nvidia
Saturday, January 12, 2008
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.
Labels:
G92,
nvidia,
video card,
video problems,
videocard
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
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.
Shortages of these items will no doubt show some lost revenue for the 4th quarter of 2007.
Labels:
780i,
8800GT,
nvidia,
video card,
videocard
Monday, December 24, 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.
Labels:
best of 2007,
CPU,
dual core,
Intel,
nvidia,
quad core,
video card
Friday, December 21, 2007
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?
Labels:
8800GT,
nvidia,
TSMC,
video card
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Did NVIDIA shoot themselves in the foot (Part Two)?
NVIDIA through their partners have launched the 8800GT 256meg video card. Despite this action it is nearly impossible to find 8800GT 512meg models of this video card since the time of my last posting about this issue. Will NVIDIA be able to crank out enough of the 8800GT 512meg cards in time for Christmas?
There has been a long gap between release of the 680i chipset based motherboards and a chipset successor while INTEL continues to crank out new chipsets. Will NVIDIA rise to INTEL's challenge and put out a superior chipset?
There has been a long gap between release of the 680i chipset based motherboards and a chipset successor while INTEL continues to crank out new chipsets. Will NVIDIA rise to INTEL's challenge and put out a superior chipset?
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