I was expecting them to be more than $1000. Big question for me is will there be a 6GB version with the same chip or will every other card using GM200 be cut down ?
Real puzzler to put 12GB on a gaming card, unless the thought was that 12GB encourages more epeen, it's basically worthless. 6GB is more than enough. Either way I can wait a month or two, the card does not inspire a day one jump on it purchase. Gives AMD time to produce something decent if they have it and to see what shakes out with more GM200.
After owning Titans I'd much rather be able to get a card with a custom PCB and real overclocking like an EVGA classified that uses the same chip. My 780 classified cards were faster than my Titans were after overclocking. This being the whole chip though makes me think we'll see first a cut down GM200 in Geforce and then a full GM200 with 6GB later, could wind up being 6 months from now.
It's a good point that these won't resell well without that DP though. I sold my Titans for $850 each, doubt I could resell these for more than $300 by the time I'd be done with them.