nVidia VS PNY

[driver]

Is there a difference between
the nVidia QuadroFX 1000 and the
PNY nVidia QuadroFX 1000 ?:confused:

[astroguy]

nvidia doesn't make graphics cards..
pny does..
but pny sucks ****... and i would stay as far as possible from them(warranty/service sucks, and they use low quality components)

[ricercar]

NVIDIA does manufacture engineering samples of reference designs, to be used as proof-of-concept to show OEMs like PNY that the GPU does work. OEMs like PNY then take the reference design--as-is or with improvements--for their consumer cards.

If the PNY and NVIDIA FX 1000 cards are similar in appearance, then they are very likely to be identical in parts list and PCB. However, PNY may add things like faster/slower RAMs or TV input, that are not part of the NVIDIA design but are not visually distinctive from the reference design.

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[SuLinUX]

Originally posted by astroguy
nvidia doesn't make graphics cards..
pny does..
but pny sucks ****... and i would stay as far as possible from them(warranty/service sucks, and they use low quality components)

Huh!, WTF are you taking about?

[LiquidX]

Originally posted by astroguy
nvidia doesn't make graphics cards..

So what the hell do they do? :)

[ricercar]

Originally posted by LiquidX
So what the hell do [NVIDIA] do? :)

NVIDIA is the world's largest fabless semiconductor design firm. This means NVIDIA doesn't manufacture the chips they design.

NVIDIA designs chips for other companies to manufacture and sell. NVIDIA also codes device drivers for their chips, and pays employees to make certain NVIDIA devices and software plays well with others, such as games and operating systems.

Fab houses, such as TSMC and IBM, fabricate the NVIDIA designs in their factories, making semiconductor devices from NVIDIA blueprints. NVIDIA buys capacity in these houses. This guarantees NVIDIA the ability to produce X quantity of wafers in Y period of time. Each wafer might carry from 75-200 usable silicon die, which are bonded into silicon packages, to become the chip you see with the NVIDIA logo on it.

NVIDIA then sells the chips to original equipment manufacturers, OEMs lile Gainward, Dell, Toshiba, Sony, HP, PNY, MSI, ASUS, Abit, AOpen, Shuttle, etc manufacture motherboards and video card with NVIDIA-designed semiconductors on them. OEMs like Dell and Tosh then sell complete systems, and OEMs like ASUS and MSI sell motherboards and video cards.

[LiquidX]

Hehe you lost me but I learned something new. I always thought Nvida made all there cards and thats why you rarely see any difference going from one brand to another. I guess I should of known that being that you dont see Nvidia selling any cards with there name and brand like ATI. :)

[ricercar]

Most NVIDIA cards look alike because most OEMs stick pretty close to the NVIDIA reference design, with a marked exception of custom cooler (fan/sink).

[poursoul]

I kinda see what you mean about the crapy parts, as my Ti4200 died recently because of a faulty capacitor, but thier tech reps are top notch. Yeah the guy i talked too seemed a bit unprofessional, but he was down to earth and funny. And best of all, knew what the hell he was talking about.

Anyway, the card lasted a year before it broke, and that's not bad for some one who uses "faulty hardware."

Just had to stick up for them, they're doing good to me... so far.