The Fermi Thread - Part 3

[Marios]

I think this is old news about the cooler change. Mr CD wrote about it some time ago. Some AIBs though might need more time.

[Rebel44]

FudNews
"Fermi availability pushed back to April 12th"

Just few days ago at FudNews
"Geforce GTX 480 massive availability April 6th"
I doubt even at April 12th there is going to be any "massive availability".

This better be joke. R600 was huge fail but at least it wasnt delayed 15 times

[Sn0wm@n]

announcing an announcement that announce an announcement about another delay that is delayed by another announcement .......... please nvidia spill the secret .... make some wild lies but make ati drop their price please...........

[zalbard]

They better not announce a delay tomorrow!

[eric66]

so bios is changed too i wonder what they have done by doing that

[Your_Boss]

So will the GTX480 be able to do these graphics in real time now?

Ok, maybe not.

[Vardant]

so bios is changed too i wonder what they have done by doing that

Changed clocks.

[zalbard]

so bios is changed too i wonder what they have done by doing that

Fan profiles? Clocks?

[eric66]

did they lower it ? if so performance probably will be different from what we have seen/told and so can be power draw whatever 1 more day left

[zalbard]

snip

I actually like their new heatsink, it appears to be better than 5870's one. I just hope the fan will not have to spin too fast to deal with the massive TDP.

[saaya]

hahahah... omg... this is just getting ridiculous... so what, now nvidia pushes the launch date one week ahead every week?
this reminds me of approximations in maths.
you get closer and closer but never actually reach the point, only in theory you do

[sniper_sung]

It might be a bad idea to purchase something immature. e.g. Windows Vista

Shall I wait for the refresh of Fermi?

[JaD]

How about waiting for reviews first?

[pentium777]

New news since there was speculation about change of specs.

"The GTX 480 comes clocked at 700MHz GPU, 1848MHz memory and 1401MHz for the shaders. The memory bus is 384-bit, which should go well with 1536MB of GDDR5 memory. As we already said before, the card’s TDP stands at 250W."

More info here:

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18215/1/

And for those of you waiting for a price cut from AMD

http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-H...s-138388.shtml

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[Heinz68]

hahahah... omg... this is just getting ridiculous... so what, now nvidia pushes the launch date one week ahead every week?
this reminds me of approximations in maths.
you get closer and closer but never actually reach the point, only in theory you do

In theory some people already had the GTG 480 in November 2009. Even FudNews was talking about the November availability. There was only one small problem, they had to replace the wood screws due to overheating. LOL

[Pekalion]

Damn, the link to the Zotac GTX480 is broken, down or not working properly, anyone has another pic of it, Im starving for see it!

[Mungri]

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18208/1/

[Arxagelos]

12 april? this is very disappointing. They ask as if we are "ready", we are ready but it seems they are not and who knows where ever they will be.

[Coldon]

everyone is taking the fudzilla post as fact? what are their sources for this delay all other search results for this delay all point back to fudzilla... we'll all see tomorrow...

[GoldenTiger]

everyone is taking the fudzilla post as fact? what are their sources for this delay all other search results for this delay all point back to fudzilla... we'll all see tomorrow...

Charlie:


Beats me!

[MrDiaz]

Why am I not surprised?

By the time we DO actually get the FERMI cards the new refresh from ATI will be weeks away from launching LOL!!

[Mungri]

everyone is taking the fudzilla post as fact? what are their sources for this delay all other search results for this delay all point back to fudzilla... we'll all see tomorrow...

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvi...ermi,9904.html

According to Baxtor, the original retail date was supposed to be March 29 but now that's been moved to April 6.

First it was delayed to the 6th, now rumor says it is delayed to the 12th.

26th march was stated to simply be when they will lift the NDA and demo the card at some event.

Im not taking it as a fact, but it isnt factual that it is being released tomorrow either.

There’s good news and bad news; the bad news is that the GTX 400 series has been pushed back to April 6th. The good news is that it’s only in reference to retail supply and not the actual NDA; so come the 26th of March we’ll all know what performance will be.

If you thought that you were going to pick one up retail that day though you where wrong, the original date for stock to be selling was the 29th but now it seems to be April 6th.

http://www.shanebaxtor.com/2010/03/1...e-pushed-back/

[GoldenTiger]

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvi...ermi,9904.html



First it was delayed to the 6th, now rumor says it is delayed to the 12th.

26th march was stated to simply be when they will lift the NDA and demo the card at some event.

Im not taking it as a fact, but it isnt factual that it is being released tomorrow either.

Toms Hardware there links to Shane Baxtor's blog, who is a tweaktown editor per google... this isn't any more plausible than any of the other rumors, or the "official" 26th one.

[Mungri]

Toms Hardware there links to Shane Baxtor's blog, who is a tweaktown editor per google... this isn't any more plausible than any of the other rumors, or the "official" 26th one.

Exactly. None of the dates provided so far are reliable, so I wouldnt exactly hope for it to be released tomorrow either. But rather we might get an official release date then.

[Behemot]

It's paper launch as was obvious from month ago as the cards won't be in shops neither on 26th or 27th...does it matter if the cards will hit the stock 6th or 12th? They are gonna to be sold out immediatelly anyway...