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and here...the next batch of "available" ATI Phantom cards....

flexy

flexy

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i want to remind you that ATI stated (not long ago) that their new cards, eg. X800XL, X850XT PE etc. might be available "end of 2004...maybe even for christmas".

I got very excited beginning 2005 with many online vendors listing eg, the ATI X850XT PE with an ETA of "beginning of january".

I pre-ordered a X850XT PE when the ETA was January, 7th.

The ETA was pushed to january, 10th. Well...now the ETA for the ATI X850XT PE is set to "January, 27th"....with some warehouses (same vendor) listing dates of END OF FEBRUARY.

Another guy over at rage3d has two X850XT PEs on pre-order..and he just called half a doxen vendors and they all gave him ETAs of END OF FEBRUARY !

--> There we have it ! Same **** as last year.

If you WANT a high-end pci express card, if you want ANYTHING better than a measly 6600 pciex then get a freaking dell. Because thats where all the X850XT PEs are. Also, the ones which (supposedly) are available on ebay (for $1000) are probably all pulled off dells.

There is/was no newer ATI cards "end of december", there is none "beginning of january"....i doubt we might see them before march.

ATI said they will be available in masses....so..ok....as said i preordered and a bunch of other people too. WHERE ARE THE CARDS ????????
 
addendum:
One/Two years ago it took 6 months for hardware to mature, if you ordered a part (eg. graphic card, CPU, board etc.) you know it will be outdated in about 6 months.
NOW it takes 6 months for a part from announcement to be available....sometimes even longer. (NV45, is it like 9 months now ?)

Eg. you pre-order generation ONE hardware....and when you actually HAVE it you can put it to the junkyard because it's AT LEAST 6 month old technolgy.

The longer i sit on my parts the more i am tempted to sell all that **** because it loses value, and i cant use it since it is missing essential parts. I am sitting on a board, CPU etc. which is worthless and degrades since i need a freaking pci-ex video card for the system to come alive.

I actually expected R520 to be out spring/late spring...but now it looks like we get THE OTHER cards in spring which were supposed to be out "end of december, beginning of january"....a generation behind.

ALso..i was kinda laughing reading at the INQ that Nvidia "said" NV45 now will "finally be available enf of this month"...i just could laugh since if i took every statement of "availibility" from either ATI or Nvidia and get a dollar for it i could buy my hardware solely from that money.

These statements are worth NOTHING..see above...WHERE ARE THE CARDS ?!??!?!??!? ATI ??!?!?! WHERE ?!!?!?
 
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