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Nvidia Fakes Fermi Boards At GPU Tech Conference

Posted by Soulskill on from the red-handed dept.

fragMasterFlash writes with this excerpt from SemiAccurate: 'In a really pathetic display, Nvidia actually faked the introduction of its latest video card, because it simply doesn't have boards to show. Why? Because it didn't get enough parts to properly bring them up, much less make demo boards. ... Notice that the three screws that hold the end plate on are, well, generic wood screws. Large flat -head Phillips screws. Home Depot-grade screws that don't even sit flush. If a card is real, you hold it on with the bolts on either side of the DVI connector. Go look at any GPU you have; do you see wood screws that don't mount flush or DVI flanking bolts? ... If you look at the back of the fake Fermi, [from this PC Watch picture], you can see that the expected DVI connector wires are not there, just solder-filled holes. No stubs, no tool marks from where they would be cut out. Basically, the DVI port isn't connected to anything with solder, so they had to use screws on the plate."

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  1. Goatse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Goatse

  2. Lies! by Seriousity · · Score: -1, Troll

    NVIDIA is a wonderful company that loves all of us (the linux community in particular) - they would never do something like this! This story is blatantly evil ATI propoganda!

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    This post was made in complete sincere seriousity; as such any attempts to derive humour are doomed to instant failure.
  3. Re:Who cares... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Exactly. This is a non issue. Companies show mock-ups of products all of the time.

    This all just sounds like fanboy nitpicking.

  4. Re:Who cares... by CarpetShark · · Score: 1, Troll

    So if I go to amazon and pre-order one of these based on the performance, only to find they can't actually mass produce them as valid PCI cards, that's fine? Right. It's false advertising, pure and simple.

  5. Re:Who cares... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Your statement is contradictory. If you can't pre-order a product that doesn't yet exist, then how did Nvidia falsely advertise anything? In order to false advertise, you would have to advertise a product that is currently for sale.

  6. Re:Who cares... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'll tell you what, I'll go on amazon, and assuming I actually can, I'll pre-order two.

    If it comes up to spec as advertised, you can pay me the cash and I'll ship it to you.. no risk.

    If it doesn't I'll give you a free 'under spec' card.

    it's a friggin trade show unit, moron.

  7. Re:Who cares... by CarpetShark · · Score: 0, Troll

    Prove it. I say advertising is any form of publicity generation related to a commercial product.