NVIDIA Statement on GTX 400 Series "Pre-Orders"

[Amorphous]

NVIDIA has released the following statement regarding pre-orders of their next generation GeForce graphics cards featuring the GF100 GPUs based on the Fermi nanoarchitecture:

NVIDIA and our launch partners have not released pricing or pre-order information yet. Any Web sites claiming to be taking pre-orders should not be considered legitimate.

At this time, pre-order sites should be not be considered legitimate in anyway. In most cases, the sites are likely scammers.

You especially shouldn't believe the inflated "pre-order" price.


Amorphous

[TheGoat Eater]

LOL - good to see they they squashed the hopes of the "high anxiety" type and did nothing for the people that knew better

[Musho]

They were too obviously fake though...The specs were not very believable at all, and there hasn't even been an official statement about those from nVidia.

[trinibwoy]

That hasn't stopped people from repeating it ad nauseum as if it were fact though.

[[XC] gomeler]

Damn.. I pre-ordered 3 of them.


I hope nobody was really suckered into that..

[Glow9]

Damn.. I pre-ordered 3 of them.


I hope nobody was really suckered into that..

Those would be some pretty expensive wood screws

[Gamekiller]

Those would be some pretty expensive wood screws

Every thread... sigh

[karbonkid]

Every thread... sigh

This isn't gonna be over for a looong time...

how long until we get a benchmark that involves rendering wood screws? Maybe falling screws with GPU-powered physics and accurately-modelled threads, reflection and all..?

[Russian]

Just curious, where is this statement posted?

[rogueagent6]

Every thread... sigh

No one forced nvidia to try and pass off a fake card held together by said wood screws as real either. They made their bed...

[OverShocked]

Lol... I feel sorry for the people that bought them.

[Amorphous]

In my inbox. :P


Amorphous

Just curious, where is this statement posted?

[SocketMan]

NVIDIA has released the following statement regarding pre-orders of their next generation GeForce graphics cards featuring the GF100 GPUs based on the Fermi nanoarchitecture:
At this time, pre-order sites should be not be considered legitimate in anyway. In most cases, the sites are likely scammers.

You especially shouldn't believe the inflated "pre-order" price.


Amorphous

Nanoarchitecture ?
That's less then 10nm.
Fermi until it gets in stock is more of a No No Architecture.

[zalbard]

I hope nobody was really suckered into that..

Oh, I'm sure some were.
Doesn't mean they've lost anything, though.

[Iconyu]

In my inbox. :P


Amorphous

So you're ChirsRay's replacement, or you're just posting the message because it's important?

[Amorphous]

I've been a focus group member for several years now. I worked with Chris for a long time. There is no replacing him, I'm just getting the message out.


Amorphous

So you're ChirsRay's replacement, or you're just posting the message because it's important?

[Sam_oslo]

Probably some of these ATi-kids has made a whole fake store.

This GPU-business is becoming more like monkey-business, with too much focus on propaganda/PR, and too little focus on the technical reality av such a important hardware.

[zalbard]

Probably some of these ATi-kids has made a whole fake store.

Doubt that.
Just a PR act on the company's behalf.
They got into so many news reports...

[Amorphous]

We're getting off-topic, but the broadly accepted consensus throughout the sciences is that anything smaller than 100nm is any single dimension is considered "nanotechnology."

Features of a modern 40nm GPU are 1/25th the micron scale. We don't call it .04 micron fabrication. Nanoarchitecture is a more accurate term than microarchitecture. The same logic is essentially true for the past half decade or so in CPU architecture.


Amorphous

Nanoarchitecture ?
That's less then 10nm.
Fermi until it gets in stock is more of a No No Architecture.

[Sentential]

This is just pathetic so now we have nVidia officially commenting on the pre-orders of a podunk website that listed up their vapourware? I am beyond tired of the rhetoric; deliver or stfu.

[Jamesrt2004]

This isn't gonna be over for a looong time...

how long until we get a benchmark that involves rendering wood screws? Maybe falling screws with GPU-powered physics and accurately-modelled threads, reflection and all..?

tbh if nvidia done that as a tech demo for dx11 they would actually get quite a few fans from it cos it would be them admitting they where wrong.

[AliG]

Damn.. I pre-ordered 3 of them.


I hope nobody was really suckered into that..

I would call up NVIDIA and demand either a refund or 3 free products