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Any ETA on when we will get 590s back?

Theres a new revision coming soon so I suspect no new stock til that hits the pipeline. Can't remember the date off the top of my head but think its something like 20th of June.
 
Rroff said:
Theres a new revision coming soon so I suspect no new stock til that hits the pipeline. Can't remember the date off the top of my head but think its something like 20th of June.
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Not so sure anymore after this yesterday:

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2071334/geforce-gtx-590-board-designs-nvidia

CHIP DESIGNER Nvidia is not working on a revised Geforce GTX 590 video card design, according to one of its top partners.

Following reports yesterday that Nvidia was unable to permanently fix an overvolting issue that led to Geforce GTX 590 boards 'burning' through modifying the software, there were mutterings that Nvidia was working on a modified Geforce GTX 590 reference board design. The new design would have a beefier baseplate it was claimed, however Evga, one of Nvidia's top high-end video card partners has told The INQUIRER that there is no new Geforce GTX 590 board design in the works.

Both Joe Darwin, director of technical marketing and Ben Berraondo, senior EMEA PR manager at Nvidia told The INQUIRER exactly the same thing, saying, "Nvidia regularly adds alternate source components to products as part of normal supply chain management, but there is no new Geforce GTX 590 board design as rumoured." They added, "All Geforce GTX 590 graphics cards run great as originally designed."

While those Geforce GTX 590 owners that have burnt their cards might disagree with Darwin's last comment, his claim that Nvidia won't be bringing out a new version flies in the face of what many other media outlets reported over the past few days. It is true that some reference designs do receive tweaks over their lifetime, something that Barraondo says "happens all through the lifecycle of all of our cards", but Evga's two Geforce GTX 590 boards feature slightly different cooling solutions to most other boards.

Evga's Classified Geforce GTX 590 has a baseplate on the back of the board that covers pretty much the whole of the PCB and its Geforce GTX 590 Classified Hydro Copper is a water cooled version with similar attention paid to the front and back of the board. With such cooling it is perhaps not surprising that Darwin claims that Geforce GTX 590s 'run great'.

Scott Bentley, marketing components specialist at MSI, got back to The INQUIRER, saying that he had not "heard anything concerete on this rumoured card from Nvidia or MSI HQ yet". Given that the revised card was said to be hitting the shelves in June, Bentley's comment adds further credence to Darwin's statement that Nvidia is not currently preparing a new Geforce GTX 590 design in the short term.

Nevertheless with Nvidia not announcing any major revisions, those who were on the fence about purchasing Nvidia's range topping board might either dive in or consider AMD's own dual GPU Radeon 6990 card
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Rroff said:
Its all word play, theres no board redesign, but new ones will have certain components uprated ;)
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Exactly, if they say its been redesigned to be safer, then they open themselves up to liability with the original version.

Cards discretely dissappear, then come back in stock with marginally different parts, its called a v2.0, and the official answer if anyone asks will be something along the lines of

"yeah, the old VRM's aren't being made anymore, so we put different ones on them that are totally the same" ;)

It comes across a little better than the real answer of

"well, for no apparent reason we thought saving £4 on components on a £500 card, then having to downclock it 30% so no one wanted one was a really really good idea, then we realised they still blew up so we've spent another £2.50 on components to stop them blowing up. Why didn't we spend the whole £4 and make a 30% faster card, and charge an extra £100 for a vastly superior card.............. "

Seriously, I don't hate the 6990, but certainly don't like it, just poor design from AMD, sticking with this ruddy awful blower fan that is really just utter tosh. Better fan, bigger fan, lower temps, higher clocks, less noise.

But the 590gtx, its laughable, theres literally not a single reason they couldn't have made it a 750Mhz per core card, none at all, they just cheaped out on it.

The PCI-E spec is a GUIDELINE, but even the guideline says triple slot and the guideline was for less power than the card uses anyway. The PCI-E guys really just say as long as the card works safely they aren't too fussed, quad slot, 600W, as long as its safe, its fine.
 
Yup and not just liability for health and safety, if they do a new revision people are gonna be asking why and when they have to explain its a hardware fault people are gonna be asking when they get their rev 1 boards recalled and replaced with new ones.
 
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