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Am i being paranoid - Fermi??

DeadMan said:
Patience is a virtue.
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"NVIDIA is violating three patents owned by Rambus. The patents relate to memory controller technology that is used in the company's GeForce, Quadro, nForce, Tesla and Tegra products.

His decision, which is subject to review by the full commission, may result in a ban on imports of Nvidia chips and products that use them, including some computers made by Hewlett-Packard Co."

Your comment only applies to Guinness! :p

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The above comment is relevant to this thread and Deadman's comment as it refers to a possible extended time before Fermi is available.
 
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rhys216 said:
"NVIDIA is violating three patents owned by Rambus. The patents relate to memory controller technology that is used in the company's GeForce, Quadro, nForce, Tesla and Tegra products.

His decision, which is subject to review by the full commission, may result in a ban on imports of Nvidia chips and products that use them, including some computers made by Hewlett-Packard Co."

Your comment only applies to Guinness! :p
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whereas your coment only applies to a completely different thread.....:D:D:D
 
I have storng doubts on fermi only needing 190ish watts to run and that goes against everything else that has been said and while i may accept a couple of places can get it wrong i find it impossible to believe they have all got it wrong. Also i don't think ati need to drop prices at all when fermi launches we all know fermi is going to cost more and opinions of how much more vary but there is no doubt it will.

If that money is really burning a hole i would buy one 5870 now or 5850 and overclock it and save the rest should fermi come out and be the brilliant card some on here are hoping then between what you have saved and what you'll get selling the ati card will get you a fermi best of both worlds really :).
 
Excellent choice :)

The 5*** series will be more than enough.
My 5850's will be good for me for at least 2 more years.

Fermi isn't worth waiting for, they can't even provide their fans concrete info plus the fact that they are in trouble with RAMBUS, it will only further complicate things for them.
 
RizlaKing said:
I have storng doubts on fermi only needing 190ish watts to run and that goes against everything else that has been said and while i may accept a couple of places can get it wrong i find it impossible to believe they have all got it wrong.
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It appears to me that these days there is typically one site that starts a story, world+dog picks up on the story and repeats it. So i don't think the number of sites running any one story gives it credibility. I won't believe any power figures, not from nVidia, and definitely not from nameless sources, until i see independent reviews.

That's not meant as an attack on you by any means! It's just my take on these periods before a major hardware release. The amount of white noise on hardware sites and forums goes through the roof.
 
^ I understand what your saying but better figures on gfx cards have been out well before this time in a cards pre release and despite having the chance to shout fermi from the rooftops they didn't. That in itself is not normal behaviour for nvidia as they are normally shouing all the time about everything and anything but on fermi a sudden quiet has descended it isn't looking good being honest.

That said i do want nvidia to release a good card we need competition and we won't get that as long as one company has too big an advantage.
 
Fermi isn't another 5800, it will outperform the 5870 by a decent margin, especially if you crank up the AA or have a tessellation heavy game. It won't be better bang for buck though, and won't outperform crossfire 5870's or a 5970.
It'll also be power hungry, hot and probably noisy. In addition it won't be out for a few months.

All in all you're best bet is to get a 5870 or two and overclock them. An extra 2 or 3 hundred Mhz will level the performance gap, and you can be sure that you won't get anything near that level of overclocking out of a Fermi card.
 
I am waiting for it also, if its a single gpu thats faster then the 5970 ill get two but if its the same as what ati have i will stick with three gtx 280. i hate dual gpu cards, i tried the 3870, never again. i wish nvidia would hurry up maybe they ran out of twobyfour :p
 
'i tried the 3870, never again.'

Nice to see someone keeping an open mind. Its like, 'I had a bad Ford Cortina once I'll never buy another Ford ever again.' LOL.:D
 
Right now with what we have tessalation on fermi being better is not gauranteed if all the shaders have to do is tessalate then yes it will be better then a 5870 but if they have to do other things performance of tessalation on fermi might be worse. This is the problem with fermi we have rather vague clues that it might be a lot better but could also be worse or equal in someways which is not really good enough to stop people buying ati.

I really expected nvidia to come out with more by now on exactly what fermi can or cannot do and they havn't. Add that to the numerous rumours of trouble with the making of the cards and it isn't looking completely rosy right now.
 
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