7900 GT/GTX out of stock in USA, UK

WHY, oh why oh why? We keep asking ourselves and Nvidia why it keeps doing this. Nvidia set a great example with the 7800 GTX 256 MB and we thought everything would go just fine and dandy from there. Well it didn't. First it launched 7800 GTX 512, the rarest card from Geforce 5800 Ultra and after months of not shipping it just announced its first 90 nanometre part.

You can barely find any 7900 GTs in the market and you cannot buy a single 7900 GTX at least not at newegg or overclockers.co.uk. Not even Nvidia's bellowed Scan.co.uk has a single 7900 card.

In all fairness, Overclockers does have some Nvidia own reference cards with OC stickers available but that is about it. None of the partners have any of theirs available as yet.

Nvidia will say it sold out, and we believe that's true, but we know that there is a huge shortage of especially 7900 GTX, G71 chips. We spoke with some of these shops and we learned that some of these cards may emerge this week but most of those places already have pre-orders to fill.

We will watch closely what is going on as some of the partner cards should be available in the week.

L'INQS
Newegg
Overclockers
Scan