NVIDIA's GTX 400 Series Gets A Launch Date: March 26th
by Ryan Smith on February 22, 2010 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
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On the heels of a rather unusual (and poorly received) announcement this morning that they'd be showing off the GTX 400 series at PAX East this year, NVIDIA has made a second and much more to-the-point announcement today.
And at this point that's all we know. Specifications, performance, pricing, launch quantities, etc remain to be seen. Perhaps more interesting is that this is on a Friday. We can't immediately recall a Friday GPU launch, even for a refresh part. Like everything else, the whether this has any significance remains to be seen.
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LordanSS - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - link
Depending on the video I'm watching, my computer crashes. Mouse cursor every other day? I'm having to stick to the hotfix 9.12 drivers, as they were the only one who got it fixed right. The 10.1, 10.2 drivers kept popping out the big cursor after a little while, and that's not acceptable.Mouse trails "fixes" the problem, but if you enable that, you don't get a mouse cursor in many games, so it's a no go.
I didn't have any problems at all when I switched from my old 8800GTS 320mb to a 4870, years ago. I was actually quite happy with it. Had no idea things would be this bad this time around. =/
banthracis - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - link
I'm curious, do you have a gigabyte MOBO?If you do, the mouse cursor and crashing on video's issue is bios related not driver related. Flash your bios to F6 or w/e most recent on is and the issues are fixed.
I had the same issue for a while last year, thought it was ATI's fault the whole time, turned out to be gigabyte's.
Galid - Friday, February 26, 2010 - link
most of the time the problems are hardware related and not necessarily ATI/drivers problems. Face it, search Nvidia driver problem or ATI driver problem, and there's not much results. Points out to nothing bad in either companies.I always tend to hear ATI's driver problems, but I owned and build systems with lots of them and no more problems than with Nvidia, sorry fanboys... Cept the fan adjustment on 4xxx series and CCC being a prick when playing with options, don't install it FFS, never did hate it, get ATI tray tools or some other third party.
But do you remember the SUPER fuck Nvidia had with 6800 series and Nforce 2 chipset on socket 754? Nvidia never did anything bout it, the infinite stuttering shitty bug with their OWN pieces of hardware. Emailed them, wrote on the forums, but hey they already had the money in their pocket and it was too complicated to fix, Thanks again!
Ananke - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - link
I have Athlon X4 and XFX Radeon 5850 ZANFC. The system is running 43 days already 24/7 - no crushes. I played Crysis, Modern Warfare 2 perfectly. The crushes and gray screen problem is highly exaggerated - it was almost immediately taken care with patches and recent drivers.I did experience gray screen with the same card in my Intel machine though - I think sth with the mobo chipset has to do with this issue...
Holly - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - link
Honestly, rumors are just and only rumors. Until there are hard solid facts (AT benchmarks and actualy available cards on store shelves) I keep /ignore mode.I hope GTX480 delivers since I would like to upgrade for higher CUDA as well as get better gaming performance (running 8800GT) and investing in outdated DX10.1 cards ain't worth it imo.
b15h09 - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - link
Why would you even read something posted by Charlie? One of the sorriest excuses of human flesh I've ever heard of. I thought he had discredited himself enough by now that people stopped reading.Nate007 - Sunday, February 28, 2010 - link
Like they say , Put up or shut up . Nvidia cant seem to put up or out anything at the moment so when,if and untill they do Charlie had my vote.Jen-Hsun Huang puppy trick was just shame full. Not to mention it smacks of no respect for anyone and everyone that buy his products.
You dont hold out your product in hand and lie to your buyers. That was just the last straw for me.
As far as I'm concerned Jen-Hsun Huangand Nvidia lost whatever trust I had for them that day.
Feb -28-2010 ........still no Fermi.
Galid - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - link
Nvidia fanboy, nothing to see... move alongGalid - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - link
Discredited by what, you sound like a judge that got no argument. I read him and the only biased opinion in the last thing he wrote about fermi must be when he said Nvidia solution to the problem was engineering by screaming at people. Everything else is techspeech about 40nm process and the problem of making something BIG... which is quite true due to the fact that... there's no fermi yet for a product that was supposed taped out during the summer and in store in november..... learn what is a transistor...Magius - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - link
So if I start spewing half-accurate technobabble at you, will you believe I am telling you the complete truth? Come on, even his "readers" admit he's got a grudge at Nvidia. Do you know what people with grudges do? They will not necessarily lie at you but they will twist the truth until the facts line up according to what they want you to believe.All his pieces are biased crap, not worth the magnetic bits they are saved on.