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PALIT plunders GALAXY Technology - one less partner to worry about?

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Published: Friday 29th February, 2008 | Author: Willy Deeplung
Products: GALAXY Technology
Companies: Galaxy (All Galaxy content)

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One of NVIDIA's lesser-known partners is GALAXY Technology, formed in 1994 by a couple of (perhaps disgruntled?) ex-employees of industry giant PC Partner.

GALAXY specialises in releasing overclocked-out-of-the-box NVIDIA SKUs all the way through from 8400 GS to GeForce 8800 Ultra.

However, we now hear that GALAXY has been boxed up and been put on a pallet, bought and paid for. Rather, the egregiously bad allusion refers to Palit purchasing GALAXY Technology.

GALAXY is relatively strong in eastern Europe and Russia; Palit isn't, so we can see the reasoning behind the acquisition. Palit will benefit from GALAXY's overclocking mojo, too.

What'll change? Nothing in the short term, of course, but we should see a broader range of GALAXY-branded cards in the UK.

Ever owned a GALAXY product? Was it good, was it bad? Let us know in the forums.

 

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Re: PALIT plunders GALAXY Technology - one less partner to worry about?
Posted by Monks - Mon 7th Apr 2008, 1:16pm
Cant say ive heard of either companies until quite recently :sQuote
Re: PALIT plunders GALAXY Technology - one less partner to worry about?
Posted by BUFF - Mon 7th Apr 2008, 4:08pm
Palit are a major brand in the Far East - they also own the Gainward brand.Quote
Re: PALIT plunders GALAXY Technology - one less partner to worry about?
Posted by baius - Tue 15th Apr 2008, 11:11pm

Quote: BUFF
Palit are a major brand in the Far East - they also own the Gainward brand.

Well I certainly _have_ heard of Gainward. Perhaps they're not so insignificant, after all.

I ordered my Palit 9600gt (from Scan), and I got an "Xpert Vision" 9600gt, which I'm not too happy about. I'm still debating whether to have a moan. (Scan's site NOW says Palit/Xpert Vison, but it DIDN'T, at time of purchase.)Quote
Re: PALIT plunders GALAXY Technology - one less partner to worry about?
Posted by BUFF - Wed 16th Apr 2008, 12:35am
Xpert Vision is Palit though
Palit Microsystems, (HK) Ltd (http://www.palit.biz/en/about/profile.html)Quote
Re: PALIT plunders GALAXY Technology - one less partner to worry about?
Posted by baius - Thu 24th Apr 2008, 7:54pm

Quote: BUFF
Xpert Vision is Palit though
Palit Microsystems, (HK) Ltd (http://www.palit.biz/en/about/profile.html)

I appreciate that - it's not just the "name", it's that the 9600gt I bought was "materially different" from the one advertised.

I'd considered buying a cheapy projector in the coming months with HDMI. The 9600gt I "bought" had HDMI - the 9600gt I "received"... didn't. (It came with 2 DVI ports instead.) Probably, if I stop and think about it, I'm better off with dual DVI, for connectivity, but I still don't like the fact I'll need a HDMI-DVI (or vice versa) cable at some point in the system.

Another cost (adapter not supplied), another chance for signal deterioration (in theory).

Oh well.Quote

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