The Fermi Thread - Part 3

[saaya]

also lets see what more mature drivers can do, it is a completely new architecture. The argument that nvidia had 6 months to improve drivers is silly cause then you could easily say that ATI had plenty of time before launch as well, and siz months down the line even the 10.3s aren't perfect...

and the 197 drivers for the gt200 based cards are perfect? theres no such thing as a perfect driver with constantly new hw and sw being introduced into the eco system...
i think drivers for gf100 will improve, but not all that much... maybe 5% on average... cards that come out with a big delay usually already have the drivers tweaked for performance...

if you look at UK prices, cheapest 5870 is £300 and the most expensive GTX 480 is ~£477, which the difference is equal to $264, or $310 if you count the cheapest 5870 as the one on amazon.co.uk which is never in stock

yeah but comparing the cheapest 5870 with the most expensive gtx480 isnt exactly fair, is it?
the uk is the uk, theres a reason its called the ripp off island even by locals
but i dont think there will be a constant 300$ difference of 480 and 5870...maybe 200$... but even that would surprise me... why would they ripp off nvidia users more than ati users?

I'm sorry, Saaya, but I agree with him. Your comment was inaccurate and totally unnecessary. I, for one, would love to upgrade to 2560x1600 screen to game on. And I game a lot.

heh, go and try it... go and try it... and then lets talk again...
ive played on a 2560x1600 demo rig and i found it very frustrating to have this awesome screen i just couldnt feed with gpu horse power... idk, its been a while so maybe things have improved by now... but from what i see in reviews 2560x1600 perf is usually still in the 30s fps wise if not less... and thats average fps...

so wait, gf100 is pretty much sold out already? wtf? must have been very few samples then...
didnt somebody here claim 60.000 cards within the first weeks after launch?
and those supposedly sold out in a day?
and in this entire thread only 3 or 4 people managed to buy one?
something smells about this...