GeForce GTX 490 exists!

[cegras]

Seriously do you work for AMD or former ATI?

Its seems like you like to throw rocks on the company just as much as charlie and you want them to go under.

In another thread you were ragging on nvidia for somewhat dishonest advertising. When has AMD been really that honest in its GPU advertising lately? Every recent bar graph comparison has never started at 0 but something like .8 to make it look like a 100% improvement over the competition and also the extreme mudslinging is completely ridiculous lately.

Your even spreading your particular brand of venom on other forums.

"If I won the GTX480, and I won't be entering, I'll hawk it off to some idiot who wants to pay for the card and then spend the money on a SSD ... and a 5850."

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You must really hate NV if you wouldn't even keep a free card and calling all gtx 480 owners idiots.

Wat? If I got a 5970 I wouldn't keep it either, I already can't stand the noise a 4870 puts out on automatic fan profile. To me noise is almost 50% of the equation.

As for mudslinging, I'm not sure I can remember any recent situation where ATI was as vocal as nvidia, especially with the whole fiasco leading up to Fermi (just read Saaya's sig for a run down of that). And as for graphs, I never really agreed with any of them from the start, but I can't recall ever commenting on bar graph scale. If you by chance happen to find one, feel free to point it out and I'll apologize.

So did you google my name, or are you actually part of RFD? You're either a) very butthurt, or b) a Canadian. Ouch on both fronts (tongue in cheek, I'm Canadian too).



Also, I find this whole thing hilarious because the 'ATI killer' made from the new price/perf/watt GF104 CHAMP CHIPS was supposed to be released, but it was completely aborted and instead shifted to super secret OEM sales. I'd like to give OP benefit of the doubt, but with no real proof this seems like a grass roots shilling stunt.

And yeah, I personally think that anyone who would buy a GTX480 for gaming is making a bit of an uninformed choice. 3D is great for making you cross-eyed, and PhysX ... well, PhysX is a bonus but certainly not an incentive. From my perspective (forget about heat), the noise that thing puts out is simply unacceptable. Standard excuses of 'increase volume until gunshots reverberate inside your chest' need not apply here.



My dear, you need to take my quote in context. At that time a GTX480 would have fetched a premium price, enough for a boot SSD + a GFX upgrade. While I clearly have stated that this generation is lackluster, I won't turn down a free upgrade with minimal noise impact. At that time, what GFX could I upgrade too with a good noise footprint? If that statement was made today, I would have changed the 5850 to "5850/GTX460." I probably would've gotten the 460 too, considering it's dead silent and admittedly much better back end support (developer and whatnot). Also I think nvidia has always had superior thermal engineering.