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First post, by Kahenraz

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I remember watching this live in 2002. It was available to stream as a "replay" from Nvidia's website for some time after. But because it was a streaming video, there was no way to download it directly. This was well before YouTube and the ubiquity of capture software and I don't think anyone bothered to record it.

I remember reading several years ago on a forum that someone had asked NVIDIA if they would send them a copy since it had been taken down but NVIDIA responded that they didn't have one available or didn't keep a copy or something. This was the last I looked into it.

Did anyone retain a copy of this launch event or know of someone who did?

Reply 1 of 3, by 386SX

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No, but Just remembering those times is a pain.. I was following so much the news about before the release and the hype I remember (correct me if I remember wrong) was incredibly high for what was coming. Nowdays I think imho that gpu generation was there to take time for the real beast that would have been the NV40. After all they had all the success possible in those years and even taking some time still releasing something might have been a good idea and more than affordable. Also I never really understood how it was even possible to think that something like the FlowFX cooling system should have been possible from any point of view.

Reply 2 of 3, by Kahenraz

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I think the FX series had a lot of potential. But NVIDIA went out of their way to cripple their low and mid range so badly that I think it tanked the whole series.

The technology was all very exciting. It's unfortunate that performance for this generation was so abysmal.

Reply 3 of 3, by 386SX

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I suppose that similar to nowdays there were so many FX 5200 around that with their even heavier limits, sold quite a lot like before the TNT2 M64, Geforce2/4 MX 200 or whatever similar versions.