Quote Originally Posted by GoldenTiger View Post
FXAA is what most people use and maybe 2x (4x on older games) MSAA at high res like 2560x1440 or better, more isn't performant enough to be worth using (low fps no one would actually want to play at, and basically useless in terms of visual quality in motion anyway). I game at 2560x1440 110hz, many use 1080p 144hz or 2560x1440 and many of them with high refresh rates with how inexpensive 27" has gotten for PLS/IPS panels.

Nvidia has indeed pretty much cut Hawaii's show short I'd say I have to agree. Who on Earth is going to buy a $550 card that runs at 95c (consistently hotter/louder than Fermi), has little oc headroom, and is loud, when you can buy a $500 one with lots of oc headroom, generally the same performance when taking into account pre-heated benchmarks rather than short sprints before the 290X throttles (which happens during normal gaming, clocks are 800-900mhz not 1000mhz+), and a quiet heatsink (or custom designs for $510)?

290X has had tiny amounts of units come in-stock and sell off, that doesn't have anything to do with them selling well, just minute quantities. As he said, so much for tens of thousands...

Competition is good, but there's a clear and obvious choice for buying unless you have a huge favoritism towards one brand: at $500 ($510-520 with custom coolers) and barely any slower if at all during actual gaming except 4K res which is so tiny a market as to be nonexistent so far, while being quiet and cool, the GTX 780 post-pricedrop is that.
You don't buy a +$500 card to run FXAA at 1080p...

Hotter and louder than Fermi? Completely false... It actually pulls less power than Fermi.

It boosts over 900mhz consistently in gaming situations. So that is false.

There have been tens of thousands shipped by partners.
Tiny amounts? You do realized how many are on a pallet that gets shipped to the etailers, right?

Sorry, Nvidia just evened the playing field, they didn't take any sort of advantage.