Originally Posted by
Dukenukemx
It's a lot more productive than circle jerking Nvidia's press release. There's a reason for every action ever done. It's important to ask why Nvdia suddenly made the Foundary Edition, cause it doesn't make sense. It's a great money grab on their end, and they're open about. They're not screwing you without lube, and the Lube is actually very pretty with a green color. The Lube is even the Ti edition.
But Nvidia's actions for this launch are suspicious. They clearly don't have enough of these cards to sell, not until June. They brought a bunch of YouTube reviewers to a relaxing vacation press release, and they got to go home with review samples of cards that are hard for anyone to get their hands on. It could be attributed to good marketing, but I think Nvidia is jumping the gun for a very good reason.
And like other things there are consequences for every action you take. Like if neither the 1070 or the 1080 can be bought due to lack of supply until September, or if AMD's Polaris cards are actually much more amazing then we've been led to believe. Or maybe in their haste to announce and launch these new cards, that maybe there's a bug that 512MB of VRAM isn't working at full speed.
But yet somehow, it still prints money.