Will you be buying Fermi? Sell your current card? Other? Post here!

[Apocalypse23]

Post your thoughts and vote in the poll!

 

[nenforcer]

Unless your going to do a before and after poll you should have waited until the 26th when Fermi is actually released.

And after everything I read it appears I and many other people may be skipping Fermi and waiting for the refresh this fall.

 

[DaveSimmons]

How the puffin can I tell whether I want Fermi without real benchmarks and pricing information?

Your poll is 12 days too soon to make sense.

 

[*kjm]

Apocalypse23 you should have "Happy with my curent DX11 card" in your poll.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

Going to buy an extra 5770 to crossfire as an upgrade when I change my MB/CPU from this E8400 to something better(waiting for Bulldozer)

 

[nemesismk2]

There is only one option and that is to "Wait a few months to look at my options".

 

[Avalon]

Other. Not doing a thing. I don't need an upgrade.

 

[SHAQ]

Are we going to have pricing info at all before launch? This is getting ridiculous. 12 days before launch and no final pricing set.

 

[sandorski]

Other: Don't expect to need a Vidcard Upgrade for a couple years.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

Are we going to have pricing info at all before launch? This is getting ridiculous. 12 days before launch and no final pricing set.

We don't even know the final specs yet or have any official benchmarks or official pictures of the hardware. Outside the Heaven benchmark youtube video where they showed practically nothing considering the settings they used you have to wonder wtf is going to happen with this launch.

 

[Patrick Wolf]

I have a 9800 GX2 and really want to upgrade before I continue PC gaming, but it seems most logical to wait a few months and see what happens and for pricing to smooth out.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Can I see the reviews, benchmarks, and pricing first?

Probably not though. Pc gaming has killed pc gaming for me. I always buy my games legit but all the DRM and other BS needed to run these games has done it for me. Add to that the fact that we are getting console ports that barely push my last gen gtx 280.

 

[pmv]

Doesn't look like there'll be a worthwhile upgrade I can afford for quite some time yet. Plus there aren't that many new games that I'd be interested in that would even need a new card. The DRM situation is making me think its time to find a better way to spend the time.

 

[crazylegs]

Voted 'wait' for two reasons:

1) MY 4890 is doing me fine atm.

2) I don't understand why anyone in the world would make their mind up on a hardware purchase, before said item has even been released and thus performance / price remains an unknown.

 

[Dkcode]

Providing it can match the 295, i will consider flogging my card and upgrading to Fermi.

 

[Udgnim]

with no reviews out yet, anyone voting that they will be buying a Fermi is an idiot

 

[Ravynmagi]

I was kinda looking forward to switching back to Nvidia (currently using a 4870 X2).

However it looks like the GTX 480 is gonna be disappointing.
The ATI 5870 isn't sufficient enough performance increase over my 4870 X2.
And after all the driver issues I had with my dual GPU ATI card I won't be buying the 5970 (sounds like it's got driver issues too).

So it seems I'll be waiting probably more than a few months for a refresh from both camps and see if the next round looks better for me.

 

[tweakboy]

Tough call, should I sell my kidney or not is the question; than I can afford the GTX 480 friendly priced at 700 dollars, twice as much as a CPU.

Either you have to be rich, or sell a body part on this one... lol

Ill be faithful and stay with my ubber 8800 until the price falls down to 300 dollars.... a year from release. heheh to make room of course for their GTX 500 special edition board... possibly,,,:thumbsdown:

 

[crisium]

I have a 9800 GX2 and really want to upgrade before I continue PC gaming, but it seems most logical to wait a few months and see what happens and for pricing to smooth out.

Too bad the 9800GX2 only has 512MB of memory because that's still a fine performer that's on par with 4890/5830/GTX 275. If you game at 1920+ I can see a bit of an issue (and only if you crank the AA usually), but otherwise how are you unable to continue PC gaming when you have such a solid performer already?

Mark me down for the wait a few months, but I mean more like year(s). Long live the current console generation! I like how it keeps the video card requirements from rising exponentially like they did up until around 2007 (Crysis).

 

[bobsmith1492]

My 4850 is holding up just fine with the games I play (Oblivion, Borderlands, SupCom) so I'll wait until I find a new game that needs more horsepower.

 

[Arglebargle]

I always buy at the back end of the wave, and am not going to pay over $200 for a video card.

Will probably be checking out the sales on the ATI 5xxx cards right before the 6xxx launch. I had been an Nvidia guy (due in part to a few fav games that worked better with their drivers), but the value has not been there for awhile, and the company has irritated me enough to have ties go to the AMD side of things.

 

[Headfoot]

Tough call, should I sell my kidney or not is the question; than I can afford the GTX 480 friendly priced at 700 dollars, twice as much as a CPU.

Where are you getting this price information? Which etailer is selling you a GTX 480?

 

[RussianSensation]

Other: Will upgrade when the games I play become demanding enough to warrant it.

I am also like Arglebargle, and buy at the end of a generation when prices have come down a lot. Personally, I find that buying at the beginning of a generation is overpaying for hardware since it takes at least 12 months for games to come out that take advantage of that gen's features extensively (i.e., DX10/DX11, etc.).

 

[konakona]

do you guys really think 470/480 is going to be priced competitively? if for whatever oddball chance they are MSRP wise, nobody is going to get one at anything near reasonable price with that limited token number of cards.

 

[Headfoot]

do you guys really think 470/480 is going to be priced competitively? if for whatever oddball chance they are MSRP wise, nobody is going to get one at anything near reasonable price with that limited token number of cards.

The problem is no one really knows availability or pricing yet, but they depend on each other. nVidia says they will have "sufficient" quantities of cards, but can we believe them? On the other hand the person saying there will be not enough cards is Charlie of SemiAccurate and he is equally untrustworthy.

Logically, they have already waited 6 months, they really have no excuses not to have enough cards. They still may not though.

Pricing-wise I expect nVidia will set the MSRP of the cards competitively but etailers and secondary sellers will probably increase the price past the MSRP if there is not enough quantity.
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To sum up, until we have reliable information on the quantity of cards (ie not info from nVidia PR or Charlie) we can't know the MSRP or the actual retail price.