Hi.

first, let's define the word "¨Principle":


Wiki definition: A principle is one of several things: (a) a descriptive comprehensive and fundamental law, doctrine, or assumption; (b) a normative rule or code of conduct, and (c) a law or fact of nature underlying the working of an artificial device.

We will elaborate on the meaning of (b) here. You see, as an individual, I think having principles is very important. In fact, it's so important, it's what makes everything else in my philosophy of live relevant.

If you don't have a normative rule or code of conduct, then you can change allegiance, opinion, position, point of view, statements, what you think, what you say and everything else AS YOU SEE FIT.

You don't think, say or do things because it make sense, because it's good, because it's right, because it's the truth. No, just because you assume your dk is bigger than anyone else and that gives you all rights.

Those are usually called not trustworthy, manipulators, deceptive, truth twisters, lairs, bullshitter and dishonest. That's what happen when you have no rules of conduct, right? You just do what's best for you, no matter what, and you don't give a single st about the consequences, as long as it serve your own little selfish interests.

As a person, I don't respect other people that act/behave like that. I bet everything I have you don't either. So, now that we are clear on that, the name of this thread is : NVIDIA Fermi GT300 Video Cards A Fake? I will not only comment on it, but also on the implications.

It's obviously fake, that have not only been established without a single doubt, Nvidia themselves confirmed it!! That was not WORKING silicon, period. Now, why is this SO reprehensible?

Let me establish this first:

I'm sorry to say, but if you can't make the math: ATI is going super strong with the 5000 series, producing chips at a far lower cost (more chip per wafer at 40nm AND a smaller die size = double blow on margin), with already good yield and praised all over the internet + Nvidia will be at least 6 months late to the DX11 game, if not more and are already bleeding to death to manufacruer a uncompetitive GT200 (higher manufacturing cost, competing against cut throat pricing in each segment) that's loosing on all front to the 5000 = Nvidia is beyond desperate, then your DNA most probably deserve to be erased by natural selection.

The word of Huang himself, not mine were "This puppy here, is Fermi". Nvidia is so fed up, they are so behind, they absolutely had to do a marketing move and LIE to us all. If they can do that, what else can they do and why doing it? Just to put a doubt in the mind of people currently considering an ATI 5000 purchase, period. The secondary message here is "You see, we have working silicon/card, which mean those rumors of us launching the GT300 only 6 months from now are not true, we will launch a lot sooner than that, so you should reconsider / put on hold buying an ATI 5000". It was not even subtle, but the sad thing is the average consumer will buy this "subliminal " secondary message. All this based on a lie.

In business, (as in many other circumstances in life), the fit deserve to thrive, the weak to die. It's how it works. Here, Nvidia is trying to cheat its destiny on our back. Forget about ATI did this or that, forget about the others: don't change the subject, its Nvidia that is on trial here.

Words are spreading fast, they have been caught with their pants down, out of pure desperation, trying to deceive us all, with an embarrassingly bad mockup at that, just adding insult to the injure, all by acting without any principles at all, trying to save their sorry ass, at the expanse off everything that we consider acceptable corporate behavior.

After all the arguments I have put forward, if you still think Nivia was OK doing this and don't understand how low that little smoke screen was, then not only your DNA should be erased, but you should also be called an Idiot that actually like to be deceived, manipulated and lied to. I just can't be cool about this.

NOTE: BTW, I'm currently running an Nvidia chipset motherboad with an Nvidia video card. That doesn't change anything. Bad is bad and I won't call it anything else simply because I have principles.


Ramon Zarat