Remember the 7800GTX launch? Remember the NDA us journalists and retailers were under, preventing us from saying anything more than "yeah, we've got something really cool here, but we can't really tell you about it yet"? NVIDIA pulled off a great move in making their 7800GTX available on the day it was launched. According to CoolTechZone ATi are going to do the same with R520:Still, it doesn't make up for 7800GTX being out a few months before it and then there's the gap between SLI and the still unavailable CrossFire, that ATi blamed in part for its last financial results.According to an insider, ATI is aware of NVIDIA’s strategy and knows the negative impact it could have on its corporate image and financial position if it tried to do another paper launch. The insider reported that ATI could’ve released its R520 at Computex (or even when NVIDIA announced its G70 GPU), if it intended. But one of the key reasons for waiting until August (hopefully) is that it wants to make sure the cards are available for purchase exactly when the R520 core is introduced. Therefore, you can expect the availability of the R520 to be immediate.