Friday, April 17th 2009
Galaxy Second in League for GPU Keychains
Earlier this week, news on NVIDIA selling keychains with real GPUs in them, made waves. The company has these keychains up in its online store that caters to the North American region, for US $9.99. It looks like the ploy to sell or give away GPU keychains is bigger than we thought it was. Galaxy, one of NVIDIA's largest board partners, has its own GPU keychain up for grabs, which it plans to sell in Mainland China, United States, and Japan. Currently Galaxy isn't selling it, but instead using it as a company souvenir in events held by the company. Perhaps the most interesting part of this keychain is that the GPU in it is not G98. Expreview notes that the GPU has the same area as the G94 GPU on the company's GeForce 9600 GT Low Profile Edition. We'll leave the guesswork to you.
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Expreview
16 Comments on Galaxy Second in League for GPU Keychains
With this news, and depending on ATIs yields, they know they can squeeze nV further.
For a PR win, ATI needs to do a big ad. with keychains for $99, stating, our keychains have GPU's that WORK. Never mind that noone will buy them... the awareness that nV has so many duds, and by association, their GPU's are "risky" and likely to sufferer higher fail rates.
Hmm, anyone got stats on RMAs?
99$ ATI keychains = extremely low failure rate = expensive because rare keychains !
Maybe i just have a really messed up sense of whats funny and whats not . . . I find it funny that a board partner also has a failure rate high enough to turn dead dies into keychains.
Lemonadesoda, i always assumed that we would never find out the real failure rate of Nvidia and ATi, but i guess i was wrong. I too am interested in seeing statistics on not just RMA's but actual failures straight of the fab line for Nvidia, ATi, and Intel.
Think i can get a Larrabee keychain ?
also yes those finger nails are very fake on the second pic