I swear every time a new ATI thread becomes a discussion point, the trolls come out of the woodwork to rehash the posts

"Oh it's too <insert complaint about noise, driver, size, heat, etc. that has been a part of every video card generation for the past 10 years>"

Anyways, I think the issue is that there were so few leaks about this card compared to the 4xxx generation where while nothing was concrete for a while, it seemed like the news kept pouring in. This one was a bit harder to believe because no one really talked about it then suddenly AMD claims a launch much sooner than expected...