Fudzilla - Fermi availability pushed back to April 12th

Creig

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It looks like Nvidia has pulled off yet another delay out of its sleeve, and this time we are talking about the availability date that has been pushed back from the original 6th of April to the week of April 12th.

We aren't sure if this delay is limited to certain markets, like Europe, or it will be a worldwide delay but we do know that it has nothing to do with the launch date of Fermi as this is the only Nvidia's estimate on when will partners be able to get the product on e-tail/retail shelves.

Nvidia recently changed the bios and the cooler and this might be some of the reasons behind the additional delay.

The date is week of April 12th as it also depends on how fast will partners be to ship the actual product to retail/e-tail as well, and some cards might show sooner. Of course, Nvidia's estimate is based on when it will ship a full batch to its Fermi cards to partners.

The launch date is pretty close and we'll have to wait and see if Nvidia will talk about mass availability schedule once it launches the card.

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18208/1/

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As it's Fudzilla, obviously take it with a grain of salt. I'm particularly intrigued by the "Nvidia recently changed the bios and the cooler" comment. I would think this would be an easy one for an insider to verify or dismiss.
 

Apocalypse23

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Well as long as they have reviews out on or around the 26th, it will be okay I guess....You can just tell how "shriveled" Nvidia's "pairs" are as they don't want to mess this launch up...(Delay, delay and more delay...right on)...
 

thilanliyan

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Benchmarks for the moment are good enough. I'm sure people looking to buy it could wait an extra couple of weeks if performance is good.
 

Dark4ng3l

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I thought the product was going to be unveiled tomorrow night at PAX I seriously doubt we will see any reviews before they even announce it themselves.
 

Daedalus685

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I thought the product was going to be unveiled tomorrow night at PAX I seriously doubt we will see any reviews before they even announce it themselves.

Aye, I have heard that reviews should show up 12am Saturday, not Friday (as in 36 hours from now).
 

happy medium

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Mass availability

It looks like Nvidia has pulled off yet another delay out of its sleeve, and this time we are talking about the availability date that has been pushed back from the original 6th of April to the week of April 12th.

We aren't sure if this delay is limited to certain markets, like Europe, or it will be a worldwide delay but we do know that it has nothing to do with the launch date of Fermi as this is the only Nvidia's estimate on when will partners be able to get the product on e-tail/retail shelves.

Nvidia recently changed the bios and the cooler and this might be some of the reasons behind the additional delay.
The date is week of April 12th as it also depends on how fast will partners be to ship the actual product to retail/e-tail as well, and some cards might show sooner. Of course, Nvidia's estimate is based on when it will ship a full batch to its Fermi cards to partners.

The launch date is pretty close and we'll have to wait and see if Nvidia will talk about mass availability schedule once it launches the card.

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18208/1/

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As it's Fudzilla, obviously take it with a grain of salt. I'm particularly intrigued by the "Nvidia recently changed the bios and the cooler" comment. I would think this would be an easy one for an insider to verify or dismiss.

Mabe they raised the voltage and clocks at the last minute with a new bios and, threw in a better cooler for the extra heat?
 

Daedalus685

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Mabe they raised the voltage and clocks at the last minute with a new bios and, threw in a better cooler for the extra heat?

Or maybe they had a bunch explode and needed to reduce clocks and get a better cooler ;)

We will find out soon enough.. If I were to guess it is something simple like a fan profile fix and a new sticker on the cooler ;)
 

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I guess they mineaswell be the full 6 months late. What's another week after we were supposed to have availability tomorrow, then the 29th, then the 6th, now the 12th. Nvidia could fook up a wet dream.
 

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How kind of nVidia, that will give ATI enough time to simutainously release a newer faster version of their already out 5890 dual gpu. Maybe 5990 , just guessing and IMO , Whatever the model number will be I feel this just gave ATI about a month to make something happen to make the Fermi release not soo spectacular.. thx
 

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6 months late, paper launch tomorrow, reviews (supposedly) not available til Monday, retail availability two weeks after that. /facepalm
 
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Meghan54

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Daedalus685

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And what time zone are we talking about? You know there are some differences ;)

Oh yeah.. time zones.. lol... info I posted earlier was heard at Toms.. though it is likely wrong as there seems to be a multi layered NDA or some shit.


At any rate.. HOCP has a scheduael up in their forums which actualyl says previews will come on teh 26th, real reviews on teh 29th.... Who the fuck knows these days..
 

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Although I'd take stock benchmarks as accurate I don't think any of the overclock benchmarks will be trustworthy until the reviewers actually purchase a retail card.
Hopefully we'll see more than the 10% stock performance rumored though once the NDA lifts.
Also if they did change the BIOS wouldn't that mean any reviews that come out when NDA lifts would be inaccurate since they are based on the old one?
 

Daedalus685

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Although I'd take stock benchmarks as accurate I don't think any of the overclock benchmarks will be trustworthy until the reviewers actually purchase a retail card.
Hopefully we'll see more than the 10% stock performance rumored though once the NDA lifts.
Also if they did change the BIOS wouldn't that mean any reviews that come out when NDA lifts would be inaccurate since they are based on the old one?

Depends what they changed in the BIOS, I'd almost certainly guess that it is just something like a fan profile fix for the new cooler.. any reviewer that counts (anand and so forth) will certainly flash a new BIOS themselves before they post the review.
 

toyota

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How kind of nVidia, that will give ATI enough time to simutainously release a newer faster version of their already out 5890 dual gpu. Maybe 5990 , just guessing and IMO , Whatever the model number will be I feel this just gave ATI about a month to make something happen to make the Fermi release not soo spectacular.. thx
they dont have "an already out 5890 dual gpu". their top single gpu card is a 5870 and their top dual gpu card is a 5970. WHY havent you figured this out by now?
 
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Daedalus685

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The summary of Fermi news at Toms states that "all will be known tomorrow evening."

Certainly seems possible that they will post their review in 24 hours or so.
 

Mr. Pedantic

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Benchmarks for the moment are good enough. I'm sure people looking to buy it could wait an extra couple of weeks if performance is good.
And if they're not...?

Although I'd take stock benchmarks as accurate I don't think any of the overclock benchmarks will be trustworthy until the reviewers actually purchase a retail card.
Hopefully we'll see more than the 10% stock performance rumored though once the NDA lifts.
Also if they did change the BIOS wouldn't that mean any reviews that come out when NDA lifts would be inaccurate since they are based on the old one?
ASUS is advertising with voltage tweak it can get up to 50% more performance out of the card.

Anand seems to also have promised exactly that in his latest AT post:
I saw that too. Interesting that they felt that a new PSU was necessary, even if it was just a contingency.