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Old February 19, 2010, 10:57 AM
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Well, are you? NVIDIA issued the call Friday morning, asking its follower's: Are You Ready? A post on the companies facebook page depicts the following picture along with a status update telling readers to "Check back here on Monday morning at 9:00 a.m. PST for a major announcement!" We are only left to guess at what this mysterious message may be... [ Read full article ]
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Old February 19, 2010, 11:03 AM
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i think the question should be are the drivers ha ha. glad to see this is not going to be another year of nvidia releasing the same cards with a different sticker
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Old February 19, 2010, 11:04 AM
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They better have a good strategy and a very good card because ATI is in full dominance no one can deny that

In my opinion nvidia's next move is critical kind like sink or swim
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Ahead of schedule launch to pre-empt ATI's 5870 6 and 5830 lanches?

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Uh, actually...
Prolly a release to say... "sorry, waitl till Q2" if rumors are correct.....

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Fermi mass availability delayed to Q2 | IT SHOW 2010 | VR-Zone | Gadgets | PC Enthusiasts

Sounds a lot like a few thousand A3 GPU boards will be shipped to consumers as is (March),
while they re-spin again in hopes of fixing whatever is causing all the trouble.

Its just rumour, but Charlie may be right about "hope TSMC fabs perfect huge chip vs respin adding redudancy like double via to make chip even bigger".
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Been ready since December...
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Didn't they do an Are You Ready mystery campaign in like 2002 as well?

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It is probably this MAJOR breakthrough:

New Video Game Technology Finally Allows Rendering Of Smaller Breasts | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
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