Good question. You know I'm not entirely sure. I'll ask the guys over at Nvidia and see if they can comment on it. I have only seen "exact" screensized monitors running it.
On another note: In regards to its "Stage". GF100 chips are finalized and ready for production. PCB Layout/Cooling is...
Well the article was good for a laugh I guess. I know me and a few others enjoyed. I guess he can believe what he wants to believe. Performance will speak for itself.
Since when it is a bad thing for someone with an industry insider source to speculate. Thats what Rys has been doing. I thought the article was great given the information available on the web at the time. Not calling you out here just reaffirming what you've said here. Rys wasn't trying to...
There are alot of interesting things that can be done with tessellation with a little creativity. The hair demo you've seen is actually physx + tessellation.
And I've been doing it for nearly 3 months now. Actively avoiding the speculation threads :) Anyway its not much longer. After waiting 3 months the next bit is nothing.
You don't expect there to be good idle performance? IE GT200 like? Sure power is going up. It has in all designs. But if you don't game 100% of your Computers usage then you're actually likely useing less power now than you were with G92 designs at idle.