Whatever happened to Leadtek?

[Secretweapon]

Just wondering what happened to them in the NA market. I remember them having unique PCB/Cooling solutions back in the day. Now I only see them in Asia markets. I wish I kept that giant 6800ultra cooler.

 

[Astral Abyss]

Yep, they pulled out of the US market a long time ago. I used to like the Leadtek and Gainward cards.

 

[Deleted member 89018]

Not dead, just not in the US anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_graphics_chips_and_card_companies

 

[Krenum]

I miss Hercules, they always had cool box art and names, like the Terminator Beast & 3D Prophet.

 

[Armenius]

I miss Hercules, they always had cool box art and names, like the Terminator Beast & 3D Prophet.

My first video card was a Hercules MX200.

 

[RPGWiZaRD]

Yea I owned a Leadtek card back in the days too. Believe it was a 6800 GT with that copper base with dark brownish plastic shroud. Great cards at the time.

 

[NattyKathy]

Yea I owned a Leadtek card back in the days too. Believe it was a 6800 GT with that copper base with dark brownish plastic shroud. Great cards at the time.

one of these?

that 2-slot copper heatsink was soooo badass for the time. I bought one (from Geeks.com I think!) for my dual Xeon rig but sadly it arrived with defective VRAM, my first DOA graphics card IIRC I ended up exchanging it for a single-slot jobbie because I was determined to stuff as many expansion cards into that poor system as I could.

 

[Secretweapon]

Oh man the memories. That was the beginning of GPUs breaking the MB concerns. Especially when moving the tower.

 

[lopoetve]

Oh man the memories. That was the beginning of GPUs breaking the MB concerns. Especially when moving the tower.

Giant Zalman copper HSFs. I warped an early Socket 754 board that way. While it was running - fried the day before homework was due.

 

[SOAREVERSOR]

one of these?
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that 2-slot copper heatsink was soooo badass for the time. I bought one (from Geeks.com I think!) for my dual Xeon rig but sadly it arrived with defective VRAM, my first DOA graphics card IIRC I ended up exchanging it for a single-slot jobbie because I was determined to stuff as many expansion cards into that poor system as I could.

I had one of those, I also had some odd abit cards with dual slot cooler before that was a thing. Also a sparkle passive 8800gt you could fry eggs on

 

[SOAREVERSOR]

Found the egg from the review

 

[polonyc2]

I miss Hercules, they always had cool box art and names, like the Terminator Beast & 3D Prophet.

they were my go to GPU manufacturer for awhile...I also remember BFG

 

[Secretweapon]

Found the egg from the review

That's gold. I'm surprised they didn't fry anything.

 

[SOAREVERSOR]

That's gold. I'm surprised they didn't fry anything.

Not possible. The case is upside down there so that's the GPU side. That side was covered with a massive heatsink that passed to the massive fins on the other side. There's no way for that foil to make contact with anything. Gainward had an even more absurd one. It ran at like 100c without case fans but would not die. I miss some of the "lesser" brand GPU makers because that's where the off the wall shit always came from.