Guru3d claims themselves to have acquired an unexpected and sad message from someone at Hercules. It seems that Hercules has decided to discontinue their graphics card manufacturing due to the lack of profit. As neither ATi nor nVidia allows modifications of the cards as much as earlier there is no idea for Hercules to continue their graphics card production as their image have always been a bit more expensive but with that little extra touch.
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