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    Yeah, thats what I meant.....damn naming convention change is going to take a while to get used to!

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    Aparently it confuses consumers: Richard, it actually doesn't. Please talk to the marketing department and get them to rename it the 5870X2.
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    Re: News - AMD exec says NVIDIA neglecting gamers

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    Unlucky man. I love my 24" for gaming. I guess it all depends on your setup and what games you play, and how you play them. Some games don't go to well with screen realestate I can understand.
    Yeah, I suppose it depends on the game type. But FPS in particular are annoying with big heads. RTS-type games, on the other hand, are great. Of course. Top-down RPGs would be good too, if they existed at this point.
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    Re: News - AMD exec says NVIDIA neglecting gamers

    Quote Originally Posted by aidanjt View Post
    I've had my 24" for about a year, and it's still distracting when I play games. It's certainly great having a massive head for desktop usage. But for gaming?.. Naw.
    Odd, I wonder what is the deciding factor between people that make optimal screen size vary so much?

    I went initially from 21" CRT to a 24" LCD, no adjust time needed.....but as I said, the jump to 30" took a while.

    And that is for gaming. I play everything at 2560x1600.
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    Re: News - AMD exec says NVIDIA neglecting gamers

    Quote Originally Posted by aidanjt View Post
    Yeah, I suppose it depends on the game type. But FPS in particular are annoying with big heads. RTS-type games, on the other hand, are great. Of course. Top-down RPGs would be good too, if they existed at this point.
    Yes, I understand that. It's not very good having such a big screen on an FPS, that is right up until the point you try scopeless snipping. In Fallout 3 for example, using the Repeater, I can shoot twice as far as I can with the sniper rifle, because when you're "scoped in" with the sniper rifle it does that annoying shake.
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    Re: News - AMD exec says NVIDIA neglecting gamers

    Quote Originally Posted by Rollo View Post
    You "laugh" at people who buy nice things? Interesting coping mechanism.
    Appropriate use of power vs cost or to use the more well known phrase. More money than sense? or even a fool and his money are soon parted?

    Intel's EE's are STUPIDLY expensive. So were NV's top end GFX chips. 600quid for a gfx card?

    Listen, I like AMD too, and have an Athlon X2 in the laptop I'm typing this on, and a Phenom II 940BE in one of my rigs. However; this is because I bought a i7 965 when they came out for my main rig and i can afford to dick around with second tier stuff to toss some support AMDs way for competitions sake. However; no one has any real reason to buy an AMD cpu these days. Besides the fact they are clock for clock slower at dual and quad core, they have no hyperthreading, and their motherboards aren't up to Intel standards. Not to mention they lock you into Crossfire for multicard and with Intel you can buy whatever is better- CF or SLi.
    Yes AMD at the top end does lose out to Intel at present. Things will roll around as they do. Games are GPU limited, not core limited at present. The next age of computing will be the coding revolution. Better effective use of multi core setups is what is needed. HT is just "cheating" vs real cores. Will give Intel credit thou. Since they changed the bus its made alot of difference so its not starved for bandwith.

    AMD locks you in? Sorry. NV locks you OUT. Its been proven before that SLI is disabled except on certified boards. The P45 boards could be unlocked to run SLI.

    Except for one thing: gaming on a 30" 25X16 monitor is about 800X better than gaming on a 21" 16X10 monitor. It fills your field of vision, resolution is almost double- everything is bigger and sharper. Not to mention all the 30" panels I've heard of are very high quality displays. Why is it "daft" if you can easily afford it? I wrote the check for $1200 w/o a second thought.
    To me thats far too big. 24" would be fine for me.

    I don't think anyone needs to "save NVIDIA":

    http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2009/11/05/4466646.htm

    NVIDIA is making millions, while AMD loses millions, and NVIDIA has no debt. (compared to AMD's $5 billion in debt)

    Who's going to save AMD? The 58XX line is very good, but remember AMD is a much larger company than ATi- they can't survive on half the computer gaming market.
    Guess we'll see when Fermi eventually crawls into the light. Tegra is making waves thou. Much better use of technology.

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    Re: News - AMD exec says NVIDIA neglecting gamers

    Quote Originally Posted by shaithis View Post
    Odd, I wonder what is the deciding factor between people that make optimal screen size vary so much?

    I went initially from 21" CRT to a 24" LCD, no adjust time needed.....but as I said, the jump to 30" took a while.

    And that is for gaming. I play everything at 2560x1600.

    And I bet it doesn't even seem big to you anymore if you have some 50-60" tvs does it?

    When I first got 30" I was in awe and played just to see the panoramic view. I still like it, but you get used to it quick, as you note.

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    Re: News - AMD exec says NVIDIA neglecting gamers

    Quote Originally Posted by mercyground View Post
    Appropriate use of power vs cost or to use the more well known phrase. More money than sense? or even a fool and his money are soon parted?

    Intel's EE's are STUPIDLY expensive. So were NV's top end GFX chips. 600quid for a gfx card?

    This sort of thing always amazes me, why do people talk about spending relatively small amounts of money as if the buyer were making a bonfire of hundred dollar bills in the backyard?

    What if the buyer has double the median household income for his/her area coming into the coffers because they've worked hard? Triple? Quadruple? Quintuple? You're going to begrudge them spending $1000 on a chip or monitor they get enjoyment from in their free time because cheaper models are available?

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    Guess we'll see when Fermi eventually crawls into the light. Tegra is making waves thou. Much better use of technology.
    Errrrr....
    A lot of people are saying Fermi will launch next month, not exactly a large amount of time after HD5870.

    I know those 8-10 weeks may seem like a long time to you, but in the scale of GPU development time, that's pretty much the blink of an eye.

    BTW- if you're about to post "They won't have quantity!", you might remember AMD didn't either. I've been thinking about buying one of those wonder 5870s since they're pretty cheap. Every day I look on newegg, not one 5870 in stock. Go figure.
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    Re: News - AMD exec says NVIDIA neglecting gamers

    Quote Originally Posted by Rollo View Post

    The ATi 5770 and 5750 are both considerably slower than the 4890, which costs the same as the 5770. Poor Joe! He might buy a 5770 thinking he's getting a great deal on next gen software and find all his games run slower.
    Slower but also consuming alot less energy. Also, I never realised a 5770 was software.

    Or what if Joe buys an ATi 4550 thinking its a big upgrade over his 3870 only to find it's a crippled version of it with less of everything?!
    Joe gets what he paid for. A 4550 is alot cheaper than a 3870.

    The 5870 is the same lousy VLIW arch ATi has been selling since the 2900, with the addition of much needed TMUs and ROPs. Why do I say "lousy VLIW arch"? Does it seem odd to anyone else it takes 1440 ATi stream processors in a 5850 to finally best the GTX285 with 240 stream processors?

    Lot's of efficiency going on there, only takes 5X as many ATi SPs to offer comparable performance.
    Why compare apples to oranges? It's like saying RISC sucks because CISC has more complex instructions. Or, a more modern example, Atom versus Coppermine.

    The changes and improvements in the Fermi make the changes from 4870 to 5870 look like the difference in the 800GT and 9800GTX+ comparatively. It wasn't a huge leap from DX10.1 to DX11, and EyeFinity is just a driver trick that gives users the ability to stop worrying about things like whether they can actually see the difference in 4X and 8XAA, and gives them the ability to wonder if they can actually forget about the 2" thick opaque black bars running through their field of vision.
    Driver trick, lol.

    Last time I read about EyeFinity, the hardware actually contained the parts needed to output the visuals.

    ATi took a year and a half to bring SM3 to market, and beyond that TWIMTB is the predominant dev assist in the market today.
    Would having SM3 make much difference? I had a x700 for two years before I encountered Bioshock which only runs with SM3. By then the card was garbage.



    BTW- if you're about to post "They won't have quantity!", you might remember AMD didn't either. I've been thinking about buying one of those wonder 5870s since they're pretty cheap. Every day I look on newegg, not one 5870 in stock. Go figure.
    We can't even find a Fermi that is running games.

    Why don't you do us a favour and remove yourself from here?
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    Re: News - AMD exec says NVIDIA neglecting gamers

    Maybe we dont have money to burn. Not all of us were born with silver spoons...

    Wanna post a poll rollo? see if NV can hit that deadline. March would be my bet given the news i've seen.

    I'm sure they will have a working card out for launchdate. But 1 card makes not a launch. Paper launchs suck. (And yes both NV and ATI have done this)

    As for stock of ATI's cards... maybe its because demand is so great? Low power, high performace and available now vs "its going to be awesome please wait while we fix the horrible yeild issues we're having."

    Scan get them in and they sell out in days. PreOrdered up the hilt.

    /me shrugs.

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    Re: News - AMD exec says NVIDIA neglecting gamers

    The more things change, the more things stay the same. It's funny to see after 4 years Rollo is still spouting the same old FUD. The imperious "I'm better than you because I make more money" shtick is still there. Fact remains, I remain doubtful that anyone is going to stay wealthy for long if they're blowing $1000 on something that would serve them equally well if they paid 1/3rd the cost.

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    Re: News - AMD exec says NVIDIA neglecting gamers

    Has anyone seen or got the proof that AMD/ATi did or have provided the code asked for by Eidos so that AA can be enabled?, or are ATi just going to build the hack to use the Nv code into their next driver release. Something they may have done before perhaps?

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    Re: News - AMD exec says NVIDIA neglecting gamers

    Quote Originally Posted by rscott View Post
    The more things change, the more things stay the same. It's funny to see after 4 years Rollo is still spouting the same old FUD. The imperious "I'm better than you because I make more money" shtick is still there. Fact remains, I remain doubtful that anyone is going to stay wealthy for long if they're blowing $1000 on something that would serve them equally well if they paid 1/3rd the cost.
    You can't link to me saying I'm "better" than anyone. I can't help how it makes you feel when someone says $1000 isn't unreasonable for a piece of hobby equipment, but you shouldn't put words in others mouths.

    Like it or not, the $1000 that is "a lot" to you, a "fair price" to me, is "pocket change" and "tip money" to others.

    Is any of us "right", or "better"?

    Not in my opinion, just a difference of opinion, and/or place in the consumer market.

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    Re: News - AMD exec says NVIDIA neglecting gamers

    Well... Time for another piece of "innovation".

    Looks like NV is stomping on Lucid.

    http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3646 - Lucid Hydra 200: Vendor Agnostic Multi-GPU, Available in 30 Days

    http://en.expreview.com/2009/11/06/r...ydra-chip.html - Report: NVIDIA Plans to Block Lucid’s Hydra Chip

    If you’re wondering why the highly-anticipated MSI Big Bang Trinergy motherboard turned out to be using NVIDIA’s nForce 200 SLI chip, with no sign of the Lucid Hydra 200 chip as it promised, the answer is simple - NVIDIA does not like it.

    Considering the product would impact NVIDIA’s profit coming from SLI fee, the green giant decides that it’s time to do something. Firstly, they will break support for Lucid’s chip at the driver part, and by unknown means force MSI to postpone their “Big Bang” motherboard.
    Looks like a case of kill crush and destroy to me. AMD has no issues with Lucid.

    These stories and the many others that keep popping up are killing NV's reputation.
    This is another very short term view by NV.

    Why should we trust you? You arent exactly making it easy for us.
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    Re: News - AMD exec says NVIDIA neglecting gamers

    That was mentioned a few pages ago, its appauling really and their actions should seriously be under investigation for anti competiveness

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    Re: News - AMD exec says NVIDIA neglecting gamers

    Quote Originally Posted by mercyground View Post
    Well... Time for another piece of "innovation".

    Looks like NV is stomping on Lucid.

    http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3646 - Lucid Hydra 200: Vendor Agnostic Multi-GPU, Available in 30 Days

    http://en.expreview.com/2009/11/06/r...ydra-chip.html - Report: NVIDIA Plans to Block Lucid’s Hydra Chip



    Looks like a case of kill crush and destroy to me. AMD has no issues with Lucid.

    These stories and the many others that keep popping up are killing NV's reputation.
    This is another very short term view by NV.

    Why should we trust you? You arent exactly making it easy for us.

    It's not NVIDIA's fault you believe unsubstantiated rumors about them.

    This kind of thing is impossible to disprove of course- how do you prove you didn't do something?

    I could tell you that a manager at NVIDIA told me they've never even seen Hydra, much less tried to block it coming to market. (true)

    And then you'd likely say "I choose to believe the rumor".

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    Re: News - AMD exec says NVIDIA neglecting gamers

    As Lucid is heavily funded by Intel and Intel are facing another round of lawsuits for uncompetitive behaviour it seems more likely that they would ask for the chip to be shelved as they are the ones responsible for trying to push Nvidia out of the chipset business, but blind prejudice cannot see the obvious it seems.

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