It\'s called showing your guns first and hyping a product. If you had a clue about how any business is ran, you would understand this... Nvidia right now has the hype and attention, which is a great thing for the company. They get the hype going and now everyone eithers buys into it or waits for ATI to show their guns..
how do they buy into it when ati will have there card out first in store shelves, huh? you say smart business, fair enough, but I will refute that and say even smarter business is making sure you have produced enough boards for retailers, then officially release your card , as ATI plans to do. So when the reviews fire-up online within the next week you can actually go and buy the ATI card, unlike the NVIDIA which you will have to wait. Also we have yet to see how powerful the X800XT is.
Second showing ones guns first is not always the wisest thing to do, "cough" remember the FX line. Ati keep there months shut, about the rx300 core while NVIDIA braged on end about the superiority of there fx line. What did that do instead it put out more heat on NVIDIA when the Fx failed to compete with the 9700pro
If you actualy had a clue and quit assuming people do not follow the CPU / GPU and whole PC hardware scene, you would be a lot more convincing,
Convining like you were. After you are all the guy saying Nvidia did not paper launch there NV40, yet you acuse me of assuming you do not undestand the whole nature of the pc/gpu world.
You know what will happen? High performance gaming machines by Alienware (already being pre-sold) and other companies will just have the option to include a larger PSU. Almost every company who does online ordering has a form where you can pick your parts / upgrade your parts. No big deal at all. This $500 dollar videocard is not going to be in your typical DELL system just like a 9800XT is not in a typical Dell system .
My point was that ATI\'s offering will be more tempting to OEM\'s than NVIDIA\'s, do you not agree
Give me a break. This card is aimed for power users and power users already have a PSU that will be A-OK or they will upgrade
I guarantee you many people whom are willing to buy high end cards will not all meet the requirement. Don\'t forget lot\'s of people with 550w also have to power there water cooling set-up, etc... Are you telling me a good portion of people whom own 5950U, 9800xt/pro etc.. all have beffy 500w psu, that my friend is BS, cause if you read alot of people sytem spec you will see 400-450 is the average unit people have.
The extra Power requirement for the NV40 is not a major mistake, but it\'s certainly not the best course of action. That\'s all i\'m saying in regards to that. U sit here and defned it, as if it were the best decsion NVIDIA made
suppose to ship in 45 days
remember that is a target date, yet I feel they will have to meet it\'s deadline. Also you said earler 40 days, I too immedatly went to
http://www.nvidia.com to verify it