The wait on anything is frustrating, waiting on my iPad to come so I can bash it in with a sledge hammer is frustrating.
As for fermi I am starting to wonder how massive the problems have been for Nvidia, and how long these problems could effect the future of PC gaming. Gf 100 is the archatecture that Nvidia, from what I have read was going to use for a long time to come, and from the looks of it, its not working out as they had hoped.
Nivida has a few ways then can go from here imho, they can pull a ATI and rework fermi in to something that sorta works, IE the 2900XT in to HD38XX cards, or they can try to build a new arch, which they should have already started back when Gf 100 started not working as expected.
I am not saying no one is going to buy Fermi, I bought a 2 2900Pros knowing darn well that a 8800 Ultra would have been a better buy, but I am saying is that if this was the first card of a new arch, fermi is not a repeat of the 8800, there is nothing here great enough for Nvidia to rename for the next 3 years.
I could be totally wrong and fermi could own everything, but I would suspect that if that was the case it would already be out, or at least there would be a few "real" leaks.
Its all bad though, fermi being late and costing a lot when it does come out just hurts PC gaming, Good gaming PC's need to be under 1,000 USD in order for PC gaming to make it back into the mainstream, and right now you can build a good Direct X 10 PC for around that, but throw in a 5850 or 5870 and you break the budget. Fermi needs to come out now, cost the right amount, and work at least haft as well as the fan-boys expect or PC gaming is going to be in trouble.
I am a AMD/ATI fan, I will admit it here, but I want Nvidia to be strong so that ATI has a reason to keep breaking new ground. The 8800 days were great, you could throw anything at a 8800 GTX and it just spited it back out. The 5870 is a great card, but its no 8800, and from the looks of it Fermi is no 8800 ether, (yes I know a 5870 will play most anything at HD+ res but thats more out of a lack of good PC games, then due to it being an amazing card) To me it looks like the next big step forward will be next gen with the Fermi 2 (or whatever they end up calling it) and the HD 68XX.
Fermi is late, really really really late, and that is bad for everyone involved, save ATI, so unless you work for ATI you have many reasons to be rereading this thread every day with the hope that the next post will be word that Fermi is out, it owns everything, and costs so little that ATI was forced to drop its entire line by 100 USD.
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