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You know the one that goes "Pants on the ground, pants on the ground, looking like a fool with your pants on the ground." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl_HvEHSlxQ The Pants are symbolic as they represent Nvidia's CEO's pants on the ground and Fermi represents his non-existent woohoo. :D

My complaint isn't with how gpus have been coming out all that frequently, my complaint is that the performance difference from generation to generation has been simply sub-par, lacking innovation, and causing me to question the validity of the "competition" between these two companies.

Someone needs to start challenging these companies, because they are just fine and dandy "competing" with eachother and providing a few fps increase here and there and then slapping a $400 price tag on it. Frankly, and Shankly, people are fed up with it.

This isn't about Fermi. It's about Nvidia and ATI's failure.

If I do get a response from the CEOs it will probably be some robotic PR response any way.

I emailed both CEOs of Nvidia and ATI and expressed my concern. I asked them to post a response to this forum, but I doubt they will as they would probably be too chicken to, but it was worth a shot.

As we embark on Nvidia's next generation of cards....I remain an optimist, but I am pretty sure that Fermi isn't going to be revolutionary or exciting. What we will see is just a fps improvement, we are not going to see avatar-like graphics any time soon. Whatever fps improvement, whether it be...

I posted this to explore the issue, not to blame a company. I also made it clear to point out that this has been an issue with both Nvidia and ATI with their recent driver release. My 5870 has personally been flawless and I have used all the drivers up to 10.1 - but seeing some of the complaints...

This possible? There were complaints from consumers of both camps(Nvidia and ATI) that drivers has caused their video cards to die. If someone could prove this you probably could open a class action suit though if you can some how prove it was the driver's that caused led to the video card's...

Is it really possible that drivers are causing video cards to die?

I am not amused, and this fermi business is quite dull.

Man I hope your joking. These cards run very cool at idle. Most of the games I play don't put much of a load on this card...so the low 60s is just from playing mw2, not crysis or anything.

I don't OC, but I don't care about benchmarks. I care more about my vid card lasting though then a 5 fps average improvement.

My 5870 idles in the high 20s and usually is low 60s when gaming on the stock cooler

Never had a GSOD with my xfx 5870. This card has been rock solid for me, I don't think I could ever give this card up. Might hold on to this one as long as the 9800pro(owned it and used it for 4 years.)