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scooterlibby

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OCGuy said:
You have to remember where you are posting Gen. Most of the people who claim the 480 is a disappointment were never going to seriously look at buying one anyway.
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Well he is referring to my comments and I most certainly was in the market for a new card or cards starting in August 2009. However, I held off after the release of the 5 series in the Fall to see if Nvidia would bring some serious competition. If they had, I would have been all over the 480. Instead, I have a 5970 arriving Tuesday.
 
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OCGuy

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scooterlibby said:
Well he is referring to my comments and I most certainly was in the market for a new card or cards starting in August 2009. However, I held off after the release of the 5 series in the Fall to see if Nvidia would bring some serious competition. If they had, I would have been all over the 480. Instead, I have a 5970 arriving Tuesday.
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Well if you were in the market for a dual-GPU card I can see why you wouldn't be happy. But you are a niche, a very small one at that.

$499 is a better price than anyone expected. That is the only reason I am even considering one. The gap between the 280 and the 4870 price wise was a much higher %.
 
Madcatatlas

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LIES!!!!!

where DID you find this most mythical piece of hardware!!? WHERE?
 
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dguy6789

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A product that is 10-15% faster than the competition is now "terrible". My my how that definition has changed over the years.
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It's 10-15% faster than a card from the competition that is cheaper than it is(5870). It is also slower than a card from the competition that is more expensive than it is(5970). The 5870 came out in September last year, the 5970 came out in November of last year. What point are you making? Fermi takes neither the value crown nor the performance crown.

If it was faster than a card that was priced the same as it was, then it would be praise worthy, but faster than a card that is less expensive than it is? It had better be, that's a default expectation, not something it should be praised for. If I wanted to be picky, you'd have to say it was 10-15% faster with an asterisk because it isn't faster in all scenarios and the ridiculous power consumption can't be ignored.
 
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dguy6789 said:
It's 10-15% faster than a card from the competition that is cheaper than it is(5870). It is also slower than a card from the competition that is more expensive than it is(5970). The 5870 came out in September last year, the 5970 came out in November of last year. What point are you making? Fermi takes neither the value crown nor the performance crown.

If it was faster than a card that was priced the same as it was, then it would be praise worthy, but faster than a card that is less expensive than it is? It had better be, that's a default expectation, not something it should be praised for. If I wanted to be picky, you'd have to say it was 10-15% faster with an asterisk because it isn't faster in all scenarios and the ridiculous power consumption can't be ignored.
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Until we actually see these for sale and in stock I'm not even sure if they actually even care about the sales of these cards. Charlie could be right about this being a paper launch though I'm not sure about his numbers.
However what seems to support this:
1. Delayed sales. Cards that were launched on March 26 aren't going to actually be sold till April 12. Seems to suggest problems need to be worked out or supplies need to be stockpiled.
2. Pricing set so that it doesn't directly compete with competitor's product. Suggests few enough units were manufactured that direct competition is impossible and unprofitable.

There may be other explanations for such delays and pricing such as manufacturing cost or heating problems, but I'm not going to rule out quantity until these cards are actually being sold.
 
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OCGuy said:
You have to remember where you are posting Gen. Most of the people who claim the 480 is a disappointment were never going to seriously look at buying one anyway.



Again, if you are in the market as of April 12th, you werent waiting for anything. Why does everyone assume that people are always "waiting"?

My prediction is the ATi-fans will continue to try and discredit Fermi, but in the end it wont really matter.
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And nVidia fans like you to praise and adore the Fermi, but in the end it won't really matter. The buyer is the only one who will decide which card fits best its needs.

OCGuy said:
Well if you were in the market for a dual-GPU card I can see why you wouldn't be happy. But you are a niche, a very small one at that.

$499 is a better price than anyone expected. That is the only reason I am even considering one. The gap between the 280 and the 4870 price wise was a much higher %.
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Is a small nice due to their high price, not because is an inadequate solution, the 9800GX2 and the GTX 295 sold well despite of their high price tag.

The price gap between the GTX 280 and the HD 4870 was wider, but the performance difference was the same as the current GTX 5870 vs GTX 480, so in the end the price/performance ratio matters again, specially when the GTX 470 couldn't take the place like the GTX 260+ did with the previous generation of cards.
 
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There's no tri-sli drivers :( Been sitting on three GTX 480's for a few days now :( Seeing this video, perhaps I shouldn't even bother :D
 
tweakboy

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The funny thing about SLI .. when I see 3dmark results you would think another card so double the score as single.. WRONG if you have 20k in 3dmark06 ,, SLLing would give something like 27k score.....around....


SLI is a waiste of money cuz you pay same price and you don't get double the performance, matter of facts you barely gain any real world stats what not...

For example, the GTX500 or GTX580 whatever it called will beat the GTX480 running in SLI ,, even triple maybe,, :rolleyes:

just my opinion and thoughts this day. :)
 
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OCGuy said:
Well if you were in the market for a dual-GPU card I can see why you wouldn't be happy. But you are a niche, a very small one at that.

$499 is a better price than anyone expected. That is the only reason I am even considering one. The gap between the 280 and the 4870 price wise was a much higher %.
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I think you're considering one because you are a huge Nvidia fan but just don't admit it. What would a GTX480 get you? The same performance and probably damn near the same power use/heat as what you have now?

You were on AMD's ass on these forums when the 5870 launched because they sold out at the launch and AMD sold a lot of cards to Dell. Yet here we are well past Fermi's unvieling without a card at any etailer/retailer. But every chance you get you are defending Nvidia.
 
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OCGuy

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SlowSpyder said:
I think you're considering one because you are a huge Nvidia fan but just don't admit it. What would a GTX480 get you? The same performance and probably damn near the same power use/heat as what you have now?

You were on AMD's ass on these forums when the 5870 launched because they sold out at the launch and AMD sold a lot of cards to Dell. Yet here we are well past Fermi's unvieling without a card at any etailer/retailer. But every chance you get you are defending Nvidia.
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Well I do wonder how the power usage stacks up between my current 2X280s V 480.

I have been running them off a 750W PSU for over a year now, in a warm climate. My Kill-A-Watt gets to 580w from the wall durning intense gaming.

If I could get around the same performance and a little less heat output for the summer months, and move to a single-GPU setup, that would be nice. DX11 is not important to me, although I do play BF:BC2 ~ 1hr/day.

But then I think that there will be a 512sp version and the AMD "islands" hybrid by the end of the year, and I think it is smarter to wait.

Then tweakboy gets me excited with the GTX5806970, and now I really dont know what I should do.
 
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being late is only has a technical stigma, as people would expect the competition should have something nearly ready to counter it.

the real problems as I see it are
1) noise, which may not matter if your computer is already loud and you are totally insensitive. water cooling would be very nice, however. I would love to have a water cooled fermi.

2) price. I don't think everyone is ready to pay $500+ for a video card. Same goes for 5970 of course. For me 5850 was a big jump in price, this is the first time I have ever bought a video card costing over $200. Too bad 470 isn't up to the snuff, I was more interested in it than the unaffordable (to me) 480.
 
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Lonyo

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OCGuy said:
Then tweakboy gets me excited with the GTX5806970, and now I really dont know what I should do.
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I think tweakboy gets everyone rather excited.
I know I get a funny feeling in my tummy whenever I see he has made a new post.
 
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