I don't like the sound of this.

Submitted by JohnP on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 1:12pm

 I was wondering why there were no cards available. Low yields kind of scares me. With this complex a GPU, low yields means that the chips that do pass are liable to have defects that were not picked up by the semiconductor testers. I would give these cards a miss until the "bugs" are worked out. Besides, if I am going to wait anyways, I want to see what NVidia has up its sleeve.

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All of these are on the shelves at Best Buy

Submitted by Zazubovich on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 12:34pm

If you can grab one off the shelf at the Anchorage Best Buy stores, you should have them everywhere.  srsly.  I just got one for my work computer and it is the shizz.

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Hypocricy much?

Submitted by ChuvelxD on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 7:15am

So their race to the finish line for the release of their DX11 cards has made them unavailable to most.  Isn't the same as not having one yet in the first place?

You can boast about DX11 all you want, but if your customers cannot purchase them, then you might as well not have them at all.  So stupid.

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Hypocricy much?

Submitted by ChuvelxD on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 7:15am

So their race to the finish line for the release of their DX11 cards has made them unavailable to most.  Isn't the same as not having one yet in the first place?

You can boast about DX11 all you want, but if your customers cannot purchase them, then you might as well not have them at all.  So stupid.

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I have been noticing this

Submitted by AntiHero on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 11:47pm

I have been noticing this first hand with all th 5xxx series cards. Both where I work and where I have been shopping around to keep up on prices. Nobody has them hardly, and if they do, they're on a shortage, however we seem to get them in quite regularly too...

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appears

Submitted by mesiah on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 8:47pm

It appears that AMDs race to get a DX11 card on the market for the windows 7 launch, and before nvidia is going to do them more harm than good. It's unfortunate, because they really needed a big win here to really stay in the game. With fermi and larabee on the horizon, and bad press from  AMDs early launch, it may be a rough road ahead.

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So...

Submitted by DOOMHAMMA on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 8:00pm

So the 5850 I ordered on Amazon won't be showing up until December/January?

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Did AMD only make three

Submitted by gendoikari1 on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 5:12pm

Did AMD only make three 5870s? How could they let supply problems get this bad?

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Luckily after searching everywhere...

Submitted by DRAGONWEEZEL on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 4:42pm

I found one at FRY's.  I had to go in, it's 35 mi. from my house, but Whatever.  I didn't have much of a choice, cause my current GPU (an old 8800gts) died a locking, artifiact spewing death.  They are surely sold out by now, as this was Last Thursday.

 Now I have 5870 goodness, and LFD, TF2, and all sorts of games run BLAZINGLY fast.  TY FRY'S!

 

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