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  • Calin - Friday, May 7, 2010 - link

    The card lists as in stock at all three shops linked (tigerdirect, compusa, newegg). Do you have the card, or is this just a "Look people, VRZone had reviewed that card?"

    On the heels of the excellent review by Brian, this is sorely disappoining
  • Anand Lal Shimpi - Friday, May 7, 2010 - link

    It's just a news post. One thing we're trying to bring back with the new site is news coverage in addition to our reviews.

    Reviews and very important items go up top in the carousel, while all content falls below (reviews + news). We're still looking for ways to differentiate reviews from news postings while keeping it all in the same place. The Read More link will probably go away for news posts and we may try including an icon or some other identifier next to a news post so it's very clear what you're looking at.

    As always, we're open to suggestions :)

    Take care,
    Anand
  • ksherman - Friday, May 7, 2010 - link

    I thought that is what DailyTech was for?

    But yeah, some way to differentiate this as news and not a 'First Look" or Review.

    Beastly card.
  • bah12 - Friday, May 7, 2010 - link

    Maybe even Anand is growing tired of the over sensationalized, biased, political mess that DT is rapidly becoming. I personally like these snips as they are short, unbiased, and (get this) tech in nature. Not something just thrown in with the tech news equivalent of a National Enquirer headline to increase clicks.
  • blwest1978 - Sunday, May 9, 2010 - link

    I'm glad I'm not the only one with this opinion of DailyTech.
  • san1s - Friday, May 7, 2010 - link

    I prefer this to ConservativeTech (or was it called DailyTech?)
  • jebo - Friday, May 7, 2010 - link

    Is it opposite day?

    Nobody in their right mind would call Jason Mick a conservative.
  • AstroGuardian - Friday, May 7, 2010 - link

    The detachable fan sure looks nice and adds to customer satisfaction when it's easy to be cleaned and not voiding the varanty.

    But it looks to me like that will be a loud fan. Not the fan itself but the vibrations generated and transferred (especially after opening it for few times).

    If you have this card i would enjoy it's review
  • Mr Perfect - Saturday, May 8, 2010 - link

    Yes, that is a nice feature with the fan. Why didn't someone think of this before? Servers have had fans in easily removable caddies for ages.
  • RaistlinZ - Friday, May 7, 2010 - link

    I don't see it listed at Newegg or TigerDirect. Only the referene versions.
  • Earthmonger - Friday, May 7, 2010 - link

    Gonna have to be honest and say that this is one of the ugliest GPUs I've seen in a long, long time. I think I like Gainward's new non-reference GTX 470 far, far more.

    "Gainward GeForce GTX 470 GOOD Edition"
  • Lord 666 - Friday, May 7, 2010 - link

    Not sure why they bothered with the Borg looking video card. Looks interesting for about 30 second and then gets old.
  • Belard - Friday, May 7, 2010 - link

    We have a Star Wars Card... I'm thinking more Phantom Menace thou :)

    Or perhaps Robotech. It'll be a neat-O card for those with windows showing their PC gutz.

    But in the end, I think the actually frame performance will matter more than anything else.
  • beepboy - Friday, May 7, 2010 - link

    Reminds me of the toy transformers I used to play when I was a kid. About the news, maybe it should be good, but I think DailyTech is good for it - but when I go here I'd rather have detailed reviews than just news. Maybe have a different tag - like news, or something in the subject to differentiate from other reviews.

    Amin
  • blwest1978 - Friday, May 7, 2010 - link

    Anand,

    I've been a fairly silent reader for years, but I'm not sure I like the DailyTech style news posting and linking to other pages on AnandTech proper. I quit reading DailyTech because of the total lack of professionalism (Jason Mick) and the site being nothing more than links to other websites.

    I come to AnandTech for first hand reviews, which have tended to be the least biased and most technical reviews for Hardware Analysis. In addition, AnandTech seems to have good vendor relationships. From a personal perspective, I avoid sites that tend to be primarily index or concatenate links to other sites. One exception to this is Wikipedia.

    Anyone can become 2nd or 3rd hand website authors, but where AnandTech truly shines is original, in-house and top notch reviews and work.
  • IanCutress - Friday, May 7, 2010 - link

    Hi blwest1978,

    I'm part of the new 'news for AnandTech' team, and part of what we do is to digest news and give a technical point-of-view from and for gamers, overclockers, and users - something a bit different from DailyTech and other websites.

    Every so often, another site will get access to a piece of hardware that hasn't been announced, like this Galaxy card, so the best we can do is report on it, what we think about it, and link to that site.

    We're currently looking into ways to differentiate the news from the reviews. But rest assured, high quality AnandTech submissions are still the core of the site and will not be disappearing any time soon.

    All the best,
    Ian
  • blwest1978 - Saturday, May 8, 2010 - link

    Thanks for the reply Ian. It's good to know that the core of the site will stay the same and AnandTech will be giving their insight to links to other sites.
  • Jackattak - Friday, May 7, 2010 - link

    That might just be the ugliest graphics card on the planet.
  • RaistlinZ - Friday, May 7, 2010 - link

    It would look better if it was clear plastic covering instead of that ugly pale blue. That said, what difference does it make when it'll be inside a closed case anyway?
  • Earthmonger - Saturday, May 8, 2010 - link

    Doesn't matter at all, only the changes to the PCB matter. Many of us are just going to throw the cooler and cover away anyhow, to be replaced by better solutions like liquid cooling. I have to wonder why anyone would try to run a Fermi on air.

    But anyway, the PCB (and potential improvements to it) is important, the cooler and cover are not.
  • traest - Monday, May 10, 2010 - link

    Isn't "Galaxy" a singular entity in this article? So wouldn't the sentence "Galaxy have pleasantly surprised us..." be "Galaxy HAS pleasantly surprised us..."?

    and

    "...Galaxy have essentially..." be "...Galaxy HAS essentially..."?

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