Hardware Mania has posted a review on the GeForce 3 ULTRA based Asus V8200 Deluxe video card

It has been a few months since the graphic card manufacturers released their GeForce 3s. However the releases were comparatively tardy since the exact production date of long-waited GPUs were three months ago respectively. The reason of this delay was rumored to be the NVIDIA’s barricade just before manufacturers were to release their cards. The reason for NVIDIA’s action was not clear however a rumor says that there has been a problem with the “GeForce 3 Step A3-A5” series (In CeBIT 2001, some Graphic card manufacturers gave away the secret that some graphic cards had been collected back from the market.) Another gossip is that NVIDIA is having some difficulties with the manufacturing process of the GPUs because of the scarcity of 0.15-micron production lines in the world.

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