FUD: Nvidia delays all of its February products

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defiant007

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Almost all NVIDIA's upcoming products will be delay to March, according to our sources.

Delayed new products including 780a, 750a, 790i, 790i Ultra, and 9800 GX2. All these products should be announced in Feb, 2008. Sources did not mention the reason why NV hold the upcoming releases. And we guess that's because of factories are running into Chinese new year holiday.

The delay will push back the war between GeForce 9800GX2 and Radeon HD 3870 X2. And that means HD 3870 X2 will be the absolutely highest product in the market, continue eating NVIDIA's share for one extra month.

And 790i and 790i Ultra's delay will make them directly face Intel's X48. Also, in NVIDIA's February product line up, only GeForce 8200 will still stick on NV's roadmap, to be released in Feb. But GeForce 8200's rival, AMD's 780G have been released in China few days ago.

We've also reported 9600GT suffering a week's delay from Feb 14 to Feb 21, and its enemy, Radeon HD 3600 series already began selling from Jan 23.
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http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=230151
 
This probably caught wind of how well the 3870X2 performs. So delaying the 9800X2 would be an obvious move so they could assure it outperforms the 3870X2. Could be seen as a strategy. Delaying of the boards is another thing. They are probably going to make a few tweaks to that to.

-DarkLegacy
 
And have any of those products, with the exception of 3870X2/3600/3400s even been officially announced yet? No announcement, no delay. Regardless of the nitpicking, it would be nice if DAAMIT would have some time in the limelight for once, they could sure use the cash right now ;).

[edit] And I'm getting sick of hearing about G80/G92. Where's the actual next gen shit already, not just the 10 millionth rehash of G80. Maybe 3870X2 and what lies right beyond will light a fire under NVIDIAs smug asses ;). They've been at the top for far longer than is good for them (errr us?).
 
Wow, it gets better every day :p. +3 for step-up, mine runs out mid-march, it'll be close :eek:.
 
The only thing that matters is when will the 9800GTX be released?

Gimme 32ROPs and 512bit memory bus and faster ram chips.
 
Jesus....

I don't want to wait an extra month to decide between the 3870x2 and 9800gx2 :mad:
 
DarkLegacy said:
This probably caught wind of how well the 3870X2 performs. So delaying the 9800X2 would be an obvious move so they could assure it outperforms the 3870X2. Could be seen as a strategy. Delaying of the boards is another thing. They are probably going to make a few tweaks to that to.

-DarkLegacy
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We see a lot of speculation like this and it never makes any sense. These are video cards. . . they are planned, designed, prototyped, tested, and manufactured over a period of months and years. . . they can't just delay a month and add something new.

Whenever there's a delay (and in this case, unconfirmed delays of unconfirmed products), people assert that nvidia is somehow going to add more tobasco to the recipe at the end of the development cycle and somehow make their cards faster. It just doesn't work that way.

A corollary to these pronouncements is how everyone assumes that nvidia and ATi respond to each other nearly instantly and tune their products accordingly within impossibly tight timeframes. The card nvidia is putting out is the same card they were going to be putting out before they ever saw the 3870 X2 released to the public. In fact, I doubt much of anything each company does surprises the other. They probably have a very good idea of what the competition has up their sleeve at any given time.
 
True that the hardware is what it is, but maybe they delay it to put their driver teams into overtime to make sure they have the best damn drivers possible available upon release.
 
Mr. K6 said:
True that the hardware is what it is, but maybe they delay it to put their driver teams into overtime to make sure they have the best damn drivers possible available upon release.
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Beta drivers don't concern nvidia, their bleeding edge like that.
 
Mr. K6 said:
True that the hardware is what it is, but maybe they delay it to put their driver teams into overtime to make sure they have the best damn drivers possible available upon release.
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Every time a product is released that is sub-par, those unable to cope with reality assert that "newer drivers will make a big difference in a few months."

I can't remember the last time a driver appeared that really made a card appreciably faster across the board. Sometimes we get per-application fixes that give us a 1-3% increases for a certain game. But these "miracle drivers" that everyone always talks about weeks and even months after release (when they don't want to admit that the silicon sucks) are nearly always mythical as well.
 
Hurin said:
We see a lot of speculation like this and it never makes any sense. These are video cards. . . they are planned, designed, prototyped, tested, and manufactured over a period of months and years. . . they can't just delay a month and add something new.

Whenever there's a delay (and in this case, unconfirmed delays of unconfirmed products), people assert that nvidia is somehow going to add more tobasco to the recipe at the end of the development cycle and somehow make their cards faster. It just doesn't work that way.

A corollary to these pronouncements is how everyone assumes that nvidia and ATi respond to each other nearly instantly and tune their products accordingly within impossibly tight timeframes. The card nvidia is putting out is the same card they were going to be putting out before they ever saw the 3870 X2 released to the public. In fact, I doubt much of anything each company does surprises the other. They probably have a very good idea of what the competition has up their sleeve at any given time.
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Like you said, It is very doubtful they would add anything to the card but if they're smart they will take the opportunity to work hardcore OT on the drivers and get them as close to perfected as they can. Stellar driver support from day 1 would be a big victory IMO, but we'll see what happens. Vid Card companies seem to like using "early release drivers" as a crutch and excuse for poor early performance *shrug*
 
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