So, Skyrim's out 11/11/11

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We’re also planning on rolling out support for 4-Gigabyte Tuning (Large Address Aware) next week for our PC users. Stay tuned!

The official LAA executable will be fun, and will be my gateway into some mods, I think. Now I just need 28nm cards to come out so I can get the graphical mods and get decent framerates. The mobile GPU refresh announcements with rebadged previous gen 40nm parts leads me to believe there are significant problems at TSMC with 28nm. Boo. Originally people were talking end of the year, but rumors are no high end 28nm from nVidia until late 2012, AMD is expected to have a 6 month head start, but nobody really knows for sure. I'm buying midrange, most likely, which should be sooner than the topmost parts, but was hoping at least by Diablo III, but it's looking like that might be optimistic thinking.

*ahem*

This one is saying shortly after Chinese New Year:
http://www.fudzilla.com/graphics/item/25...n-february

But there are pictures emerging of the high end cards, so it looks like they'll come first:

http://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-Cards...k-Internet

http://vr-zone.com/articles/more-amd-tah...14193.html

The images you have there are real leaks, but they don't discuss the issues that are ongoing inside the engineering of the board. From the last time we've talked, there's been two more setbacks in the QA'ing of the chip, even so, I feel the timeframe I gave you is a bit too pessimistic. They've caught up and they might make it prior to March 15th.