Here's the error I get when I try to view the site.  This is with IE6, which has opened your site every workday for 2.5 years:

Fatal error: Class 'JDocumentRendererHead' not found in /home/fudzilla/public_html/plugins/system/articlesanywhere/helper.php on line 589

You might be losing other readers to this issue, too.


Actually, I'm not too concerned because after so long I have come to realize that you really are in the pocket - one way or another - of Nvidia.  There is no other explanation for your continuing to act like their current graphics boards have any merit at all for the average user.  Every single one is a loser, but you still fish for something, anything, proactive to say such as "will be a great overclocker".  Puhleeese...

Looking back, the slide seemed to have begun around last August when Jen-Hsun Huang - no doubt aware of how bad their boards would be this year - made it a point to butter up some journos.  This included Fudo whom we saw smiling in the fond embrace.  After that, how could you be objective?  I wondered at the time.  Huang's gambit worked.

Too bad.

Arbie

This reads like an Nvidia press release: nothing technically wrong but overall very misleading.  I don't think Nvidia themselves could spin it better, considering the hole they're in.  What I really object to is that unqualified hype like this from Fudzilla will lead folks to rush out and buy - a move that most will later regret.

"Massive volume launch with thousands of cards available ... which might easily sell out".  The truth appears to be that Nvidia *can't* produce more than a few thousand of each of the GTX470 and 480 because of  serious design and manufacturability deficiencies, and that to accomplish even this means driving the chips to their voltage and power limits.  Which incidentally means that the failure rate on these is liable to be high, besides the heat and fan noise involved.

And at the same time you uncritically reproduce the equally misleading Nvidia graph showing Unigine performance.  Sure you mention somewhere that this is an artificial benchmark, but a lot of damage is done.  Informed sources predict only a small margin between GTX480 and HD 5870 in real games - certainly not worth taking on the drawbacks mentioned above..

Nvidia must have been very happy with these puff pieces.  I am a very faithful long-time reader of Fudzilla but this is not like you and not what I expect from you.

Throughout this article the graph bar lengths are wildly disproportionate to the numbers they represent.  For example, the bar length for a 33 FPS result is almost the same as for 56 FPS - and it's not because the scale is so large.  They're just all wrong.

Separate point:  Fudzilla misuses the word "crippled" when referring to graphics boards that are reduced versions of some more powerful product.   "Crippled" implies broken, or useless, or incapable.  What you really mean is "cut down", or "scaled back".  There may be other English phrases that suit as well, though I can't think of a single word that does it.  But please drop "crippled" because it's way too severe.

Also please stop calling everything "solutions".  This has got to be one of the most overused tech neologisms of our day.

At least you don't keep saying "that said"...  Some journos can't write a paragraph without using it.

BTW I love your site and for more than a year have read it first thing every morning Mon-Fri.  Keep up the good work.  Just trying to help a bit here.

Arbie

Another pet peeve; hardly limited to Fudzilla...  the correct term is "whup-ass".  It means getting your ass whupped (from 'whipped').  Yes, you 've seen it for years in PC Magazine as "whoop-ass" but that's nonsensical and wrong.  Trust me on this one.

Arbie

I don't mean to pick nits since I speak only English and admire people who can write as well as you guys do in a second language.

However, this one is funny and was repeated, so maybe you'd like to know...  "Tapped out" means exhausted, empty, no more resources; or to define slang with slang, "has reached the end of the line".  The GT200 isn't tapped out.

And if I can make an unrelated point:  "solution" is overused.  Just say "card" or "cooler" or whatever.

Thanks again for a great site; the top of my favorites list.

Arbie

It took a few months but Fudzilla has climbed to the top of my "Favorites" list for PC hardware.  I appreciate how hard you work gathering the news.  The in-depth sites are great too, but I now feel much better informed about what's happening and - maybe more important - what's going to happen.

Please keep up the good work.  I come here first thing, every weekday.

Arbie

Doesn't this scare the hell out of anybody besides me?

It's sad to see a company produce such an obviously flawed item and promote it as "high end" equipment.  I looked very hard at the original Cosmos, wanting to like it.  But the more I learned the more disappointed I became, and finally realized that just because a company has been making PC cases and other gear for quite a while and has a name like "Coolermaster" does not mean that they'll do it right.  The ostensible flagship of the Coolermaster line, the Cosmos case had many internal design errors; but even worse was its cooling.  This giant case had second-rate provisions for mounting components and totally inadequate (actually, bungled) cooling arrangements for them.  You wouldn't even want it.  Check out the Newegg customer comments.  Most people bought it on looks or on one of the surprisingly non-perceptive site reviews.  Those owners that attempted a major load-out were puzzled that so many things (especially hard drives) overheated.  Giant case, lots of room, high price, tons of chrome, Coolermaster name... we must be doing something wrong...?

Now we have the 'Cosmos S' - a pretty quick revamp.   And they did fix some of the cooling (looks like the stupid front door is gone).  But check other reviews - the drive mounting is still so bad you wouldn't want to deal with it.  And this is a premium case at a premium price.

Lesson:  don't trust a name, and don't trust any one site's reviews - even on something as relatively straightforward as a computer case.  This was an education for me, and I'm sure glad I didn't press "Buy".

Arbie