Several product managers and internal corporate heads at Nvidia have told us there is a big chance that the two single-GPU GF100 cards will be shipping in March. Nvidia's fiscal Q1 2011 began on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 and ends on Monday, April 26, 2010 so there is still a fair bit time for the company to materialize its products. Subsequently, the dual-GPU GF100 model will ship one or two months later, and many analysts have suggested that it should materialize by May.

Due to the fact that AMD has already shipped over 2,000,000 DirectX 11-based parts, however, I sure hope Fermi-based GF100 parts start shipping soon.


Here's my upgrade strategy:

1) Sell Radeon HD 5970s at the beginning of March

2) Pick up 2x EVGA GeForce "GF100" single-GPU cards in SLI

3) Step-Up to 2x EVGA GeForce "GF100" dual-GPU cards in Quad-SLI (provided that they launch by May and/or before 90-days)