4 weeks to brand and ship them seems an awfully long time don't you think? The boxes and accessories should all be ready to go as the cards arrive. This is mass production; something the AiB factories are all prepped for. And the shipping doesn't take a week from China.

It depends on how you ship them I guess. You can always rush the shipping if you are willing to deal with the extra cost.

It could very well be that things will move faster (I just gave general timings that are close to worse case). I've heard the recent tail end of march rumor, but I think that would come very close to being a paper launch. My gut feeling is mid april is when the cards will truly be available for those that want to purchase them without incurring an early adopter premium.

You're moving the goal post. We were talking about the end of Kepler NDA with the reviews going up. Not mass availability with custom cards as you are now suggesting.



If you were in Nvidia's position right now, wouldn't you speed things up?

I never mentioned custom cards, and I wasn't thinking in terms of when NDA's end, just when consumers can buy the cards. I'll still stick with early to mid april myself. I could be wrong, who outside of nvidia *really* knows at this point?

I see no reason to react to anything AMD is doing, especially in a rash way, and especially not with AMD's current pricing.

Why are you bringing AMD into this?


Intel is launching Ivy Bridge


I mentioned custom cards because that is about the time that launch prices normalize and the "early adopter premium" ends.

Vr-zone claims to have seen kepler and will be writing a series of articles, starting with this one.

http://vr-zone.com/articles/nvidia-kepler-power-circuitry-revealed-made-by-foxconn/15011.html

oh no. this vr-zone is something i would expect to be seeing if the launch were close. But wait!!!!!!! looks like something is not adding up???? 300Watt? thts not gonna be the mid range

duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

maybe just maybe..................................

What is this "if" you are talking about?

That article says nothing new or worthwhile and they are basing their information off an engineering sample from last year.

Untrue. And nowhere does it say that they had an ES.
According to the link, the KeplerGPUs have been stockpiled since last year for a launch. The cards have been made by Foxconn so the partners have not seen them (until now) And this is the first time we hear their date of the NDA ending - March 20
and ...
4. It's not a midrange product - 6+8-pin PCIe.

What we have been saying. And that is quite a lot for someone not in the know until until now to digest