NVIDIA Statement on GTX 400 Series "Pre-Orders"

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02-28-2010, 06:14 PM
Amorphous

NVIDIA Statement on GTX 400 Series "Pre-Orders"

NVIDIA has released the following statement regarding pre-orders of their next generation GeForce graphics cards featuring the GF100 GPUs based on the Fermi nanoarchitecture:

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NVIDIA and our launch partners have not released pricing or pre-order information yet. Any Web sites claiming to be taking pre-orders should not be considered legitimate.

At this time, pre-order sites should be not be considered legitimate in anyway. In most cases, the sites are likely scammers.

You especially shouldn't believe the inflated "pre-order" price. ;)

Amorphous
02-28-2010, 07:24 PM
TheGoat Eater

LOL - good to see they they squashed the hopes of the "high anxiety" type and did nothing for the people that knew better ;)
02-28-2010, 07:29 PM
Musho

They were too obviously fake though...The specs were not very believable at all, and there hasn't even been an official statement about those from nVidia.
02-28-2010, 07:43 PM
trinibwoy

That hasn't stopped people from repeating it ad nauseum as if it were fact though.
02-28-2010, 07:44 PM
[XC] gomeler

Damn.. I pre-ordered 3 of them. :(

I hope nobody was really suckered into that..
02-28-2010, 08:15 PM
Glow9

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Originally Posted by [XC] gomeler

Damn.. I pre-ordered 3 of them. :(

I hope nobody was really suckered into that..

Those would be some pretty expensive wood screws
02-28-2010, 08:39 PM
Gamekiller

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Originally Posted by Glow9

Those would be some pretty expensive wood screws

Every thread... sigh
02-28-2010, 08:51 PM
karbonkid

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Originally Posted by Gamekiller

Every thread... sigh

This isn't gonna be over for a looong time...

how long until we get a benchmark that involves rendering wood screws? Maybe falling screws with GPU-powered physics and accurately-modelled threads, reflection and all..? :rofl:
02-28-2010, 09:16 PM
Russian

Just curious, where is this statement posted?
02-28-2010, 09:25 PM
rogueagent6

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Originally Posted by Gamekiller

Every thread... sigh

No one forced nvidia to try and pass off a fake card held together by said wood screws as real either. They made their bed...
02-28-2010, 09:40 PM
OverShocked

Lol... I feel sorry for the people that bought them.
02-28-2010, 10:49 PM
Amorphous

In my inbox. :P

Amorphous

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Originally Posted by Russian

Just curious, where is this statement posted?
02-28-2010, 11:31 PM
SocketMan

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Originally Posted by Amorphous

NVIDIA has released the following statement regarding pre-orders of their next generation GeForce graphics cards featuring the GF100 GPUs based on the Fermi nanoarchitecture:
At this time, pre-order sites should be not be considered legitimate in anyway. In most cases, the sites are likely scammers.

You especially shouldn't believe the inflated "pre-order" price. ;)

Amorphous

Nanoarchitecture ? :shocked:
That's less then 10nm.
Fermi until it gets in stock is more of a No No Architecture.
02-28-2010, 11:32 PM
zalbard

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Originally Posted by [XC] gomeler

I hope nobody was really suckered into that..

Oh, I'm sure some were.
Doesn't mean they've lost anything, though.
02-28-2010, 11:42 PM
Iconyu

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Originally Posted by Amorphous

In my inbox. :P

Amorphous

So you're ChirsRay's replacement, or you're just posting the message because it's important?
03-01-2010, 01:54 AM
Amorphous

I've been a focus group member for several years now. I worked with Chris for a long time. There is no replacing him, I'm just getting the message out.

Amorphous

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Originally Posted by Iconyu

So you're ChirsRay's replacement, or you're just posting the message because it's important?
03-01-2010, 02:01 AM
Sam_oslo

Probably some of these ATi-kids has made a whole fake store.

This GPU-business is becoming more like monkey-business, with too much focus on propaganda/PR, and too little focus on the technical reality av such a important hardware.
03-01-2010, 02:03 AM
zalbard

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Originally Posted by Sam_oslo

Probably some of these ATi-kids has made a whole fake store.

Doubt that.
Just a PR act on the company's behalf.
They got into so many news reports...
03-01-2010, 02:08 AM
Amorphous

We're getting off-topic, but the broadly accepted consensus throughout the sciences is that anything smaller than 100nm is any single dimension is considered "nanotechnology."

Features of a modern 40nm GPU are 1/25th the micron scale. We don't call it .04 micron fabrication. Nanoarchitecture is a more accurate term than microarchitecture. The same logic is essentially true for the past half decade or so in CPU architecture.

Amorphous

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Originally Posted by SocketMan

Nanoarchitecture ? :shocked:
That's less then 10nm.
Fermi until it gets in stock is more of a No No Architecture.
03-01-2010, 03:48 AM
Sentential

This is just pathetic so now we have nVidia officially commenting on the pre-orders of a podunk website that listed up their vapourware? I am beyond tired of the rhetoric; deliver or stfu.
03-01-2010, 07:34 AM
Jamesrt2004

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Originally Posted by karbonkid

This isn't gonna be over for a looong time...

how long until we get a benchmark that involves rendering wood screws? Maybe falling screws with GPU-powered physics and accurately-modelled threads, reflection and all..? :rofl:

tbh if nvidia done that as a tech demo for dx11 they would actually get quite a few fans from it cos it would be them admitting they where wrong. :up:
03-01-2010, 08:06 AM
AliG

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Originally Posted by [XC] gomeler

Damn.. I pre-ordered 3 of them. :(

I hope nobody was really suckered into that..

I would call up NVIDIA and demand either a refund or 3 free products