Quadro 4500 - Vaporware??

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Nvidia announced the new Quadro card, then over a week ago PNY
announced that they now have the Quadro 4500 card "available":

http://www.pny.com/pressroom/pressReleases/view.asp?pressID=140

But there is no mention of it in the products section of the PNY site,
it is not available in the PNY store, and if you search ibuyer.net,
pricewatch.com, shopper.cnet.com, froogle.com, or anywhere else, you
will see that the card is not available, AT ALL.

What was the point of announcing and listing this card if there was no
intention of making it available?

 

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There is a rumor going around about the unavailability right now, I
have no idea if it's true or not: Nvidia made the heatsinks so big,
that there are a substantial number of motherboards where two of them
(for SLI mode) will not physically fit. So they are hurrying to
correct the problem, which isn't an easy matter since Quadro's have to
pass rigourous testing and standards. Again I have no idea if it's
true. Nvidia forwards all inquiries to PNY, and PNY just keeps
replying with "updated" ship dates. They told you 8/14, now they are
saying 9/5, on 9/5 they will probably say 9/15. You can bet whatever
the problem is, nobody from PNY or NVidia will comment.



Femur Funcake <wroi@odifkh.com> wrote:

>Nvidia announced the new Quadro card, then over a week ago PNY
>announced that they now have the Quadro 4500 card "available":
>
>http://www.pny.com/pressroom/pressReleases/view.asp?pressID=140
>
>But there is no mention of it in the products section of the PNY site,
>it is not available in the PNY store, and if you search ibuyer.net,
>pricewatch.com, shopper.cnet.com, froogle.com, or anywhere else, you
>will see that the card is not available, AT ALL.
>
>What was the point of announcing and listing this card if there was no
>intention of making it available?