Quote Originally Posted by Pantsu View Post
GF114 seems to have quite a variance in oc ability. A lot of the reviews can't make 950 Mhz yet Gigabyte sells binned 1GHz cards and the best OCs in reviews seem to be around 1050 Mhz. Looks like the Gigabyte SOC would be the card to pick, but somehow I think the availability will be limited and the price ends up higher than what it should be.

To me GTX 560 seems a great card if it manages to OC to 1Ghz+ rather than "only" 900Mhz+. AMD certainly doesn't need to do anything more than what it did by dropping prices and introducing the 1GB 6950. I really don't see how AMD is in trouble because of GTX 560 like some people seem to think. They'll soon have the 6990 too for the performance crown. It makes absolutely no sense for AMD to start making huge chips like Nvidia, it would completely break their sweet spot strategy that has worked extremely well since 3800 series. You really want another R600 or a GF100?
Interesting, dose it mean there is several different biding of 560 are out there? Maybe I have to use my Intel batch#-hunting skills here too?


Yeah, 6990 is still a wild card in AMDs hand. It better be competitive, and be on time, too. It will be interesting to see how this "new" redesigned/re-freshed (or whatever you want to call it) chip will do after that nasty delay.
If it can't stand to the hype, AMD may be in trouble, because nVidia has at least a couple of options for a double-GPU (2x560, 2x570) to trough on it and ruin it just at release time. Lets hope it can deliver what we all are expecting, and be on time too.