Agreed again.

I still loved my FX5600 though... lol

Weren't the FX5600's also extremely loud on top of all the other problems I mentioned before too?

i had an FX5200.

when i bought it i believed all the hype. should have listened when the MB guys asked if i was sure i wanted it. lol
after that i went ATI and only looked back once and lived to regret it. RAM'd a 7900GT, then RMA'd the new card, got a 7950GT from he second RMA, then that died after the warranty of the original card ran up.

I had an FX5200, it was in the system for 30min, then the MX440 DDR went back in. Pretty bad when the low end card of the next generation can't outperform the low end card of the previous one.

A guy I went to university with got a FX5200 and was certain it was a faster card than my older 4200Ti and better because it was DX9 (I think it was 9 it had?). It struggled to play current games at the time and I'm not even sure if it was able to play anything when DX9 games started coming out.

Anywho enough talk about old crap, lets talk about new crap!

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

2nd week of April for availability. Keep saving them pennies. A google products search:

http://www.google.com/products?q=GTX470&aq=f 450$
http://www.google.com/products?q=GTX480&aq=f 550$
ZipZoomFly is pretty good with getting the right price. Not saying that it's "right", just accurate.

Unless they tweak 20% more out of whatever we've seen for "reviews" online, no one should buy this card over anything ATi has for these prices, I'd have to say add 25% to those prices for the MB price.

BEEFY! (I'm hoping that's the 480, due to the 6+8pin power couplers)

http://www.overclock.net/nvidia/691903-gf100-date-confusion-see-here.html

March 26
* Official GTX470/GTX480 NDA Expiration
* Launch date for North America
* Specifications are released
* Official pricing info is released
* NVIDIA Demos GTX470/GTX480
* Partners receive revised GTX470/GTX480 shipments (due to BIOS update and cooler change)

March 27
* Partners ship out cards to retailers
* Previews are released
* Launch date for Europe

March 29
* Shipping companies have partner shipments in transit
* Benchmarks officially posted
* Reviews are released

April 2
* Retailers receive shipments from partners
* Preorders are posted for online retailers

April 5
* Stock is put into inventory and paperwork is filed

April 6
* Online retailers post stock for GTX470/GTX480 cards

April 12
* GTX470/GX480 hit the selves for stores (Microcenter, etc...)
* Orders are officially online and purchasable

Very sharp looking card.

Nvidia's announcement at PAX is between 6pm EDT and 7pm EDT. Supposedly it's gonna be 3D heavy so it's not gonna be streamed on da web. However, stay tuned to your favourite hardware site as somethings gonna come out.

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/vi ... ement.html

Thanks to NVIDIA for allowing us to post this.

That guy should clean the crap off his nose.

Thou must pray to the Nvidia gods in order not to be smited by their mighty lawyers.

Leaks galore, I'm sure most will say they thought the release time was their local time. Looks like the 480 will make you wimper when you see your power bill. 140W over the 5870 or something like that.

This just in, reviews at 8pm ADT.

mmmm, toasty

wow, an apt heater it is.

GTX 480: 250W
GTX 470: 215W
HD 5870: 188W
HD 5850: 151W