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sethsez posted:Normally I'd agree, but it really has to sting to know that they paid $100 more for essentially 1 frame per second in most games. I can't think of a time when the flagship has been this close to the next card down. 8800 Ultra
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May 7, 2012 12:10
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It's not really fair to compare AMD CPUs to Intel CPUS, and include ATI and NVIDIA in this. ATI is currently better for compute, and the 6xxx series were the bitcoin fags, card of choice. Which is an odd reversal. GTX 670 is a kick in the nuts for anyone who bought a 680, but at the same time, 7970 price drops are a kick in the nuts to those who bought them at full price, but - early adoption, a price you pay. ATI's cards are not actually BAD, in stark contrast to AMD CPUs at the high end, which don't compete in any metric. They are just a bit too large and expensive to make right now, which was because ATI took a gamble on compute, and NVIDIA did the opposite this time around. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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May 7, 2012 15:56
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HalloKitty posted:8800 Ultra
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May 7, 2012 16:39
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Pet peeve: Stop saying ATI, there is no such company anymore. There is a company named AMD that makes CPUs, GPUs, and APUs. Using the ATI name sort of made a kind of sense a few years back when they still had separated operations and used the ATI brand, but that was quite awhile ago.
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May 7, 2012 23:46
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Pet peeve: nVidia nvidia Nvidia nVIDIA NVIDIA
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May 7, 2012 23:55
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The way it's meant to be played! *pounds escape key to no effect*
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May 8, 2012 00:10
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Pet Peeve: Nvidia GeForce GT 555M (GF106, 144 core @ 709 MHz, 128 bit GDDR5) Nvidia GeForce GT 555M (GF106, 144 core @ 590 MHz, 192 bit DDR3) Nvidia GeForce GT 555M (GF106, 144 core @ 590 MHz, 128 bit DDR3) Nvidia GeForce GT 555M (GF108, 96 core @ 753 MHz, 128 bit GDDR5) Nvidia GeForce GT 555M (GF116, 144 core @ 525 MHz, 128 bit DDR3) Nvidia GeForce GT 635M (Whatever's left over from the unsold 555M stock) Nvidia GeForce GT 635M (GF116, 144 @ "up to" 675 MHz, 128/192 bit DDR3/GDDR5 - 4 possible configurations plus an arbitrary clock speed) Factory Factory fucked around with this message at 00:21 on May 8, 2012 |
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May 8, 2012 00:17
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Oh it gets better: nVidia Geforce GT 645 (GF114, 288 core @ 776Mhz, 192 bit GDDR5) nVidia Geforce GT 640 (GK107, 384 core @ 950Mhz, 128 bit GDDR5) nVidia Geforce GT 640 (GF116, 144 core @ 720Mhz, 192 bit DDR3) nVidia Geforce GT 640 (GK107, 384 core @ 797Mhz, 128 bit DDR3) nVidia Geforce GT 630 (GK107, 384 core @ 875Mhz, 128 bit DDR3) The best part is that the Geforce GT 630 is faster than at least one of the GT 640 models.
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May 8, 2012 00:28
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Alereon posted:Pet peeve: Stop saying ATI, there is no such company anymore. There is a company named AMD that makes CPUs, GPUs, and APUs. Using the ATI name sort of made a kind of sense a few years back when they still had separated operations and used the ATI brand, but that was quite awhile ago. Alright, I know that, old habits, I guess
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May 8, 2012 10:38
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Alereon posted:Pet peeve: Stop saying ATI, there is no such company anymore. There is a company named AMD that makes CPUs, GPUs, and APUs. Using the ATI name sort of made a kind of sense a few years back when they still had separated operations and used the ATI brand, but that was quite awhile ago. Is this a moderator demand, or just something that bugs you? 'Cause I'm probably going to keep saying ATI, not to piss you off, but because I can't help but think of them as anything but ATI, or, charitably, AMD/ATI. Unless it's gonna get me banned. 
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May 8, 2012 11:04
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I've got a persistent issue with my What's really odd is that the TV will play the Windows startup noise at the login screen absolutely fine, then as soon as I'm logged in it claims it's not connected. Could this be an issue with the latest drivers?
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May 8, 2012 18:25
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Party Boat posted:What's really odd is that the TV will play the Windows startup noise at the login screen absolutely fine, then as soon as I'm logged in it claims it's not connected. Could this be an issue with the latest drivers? I'd try drivers first, to be safe - did you have any issues before updating to the most recent revision? Also, be sure to wipe the drivers, use Driver Sweeper/Driver Cleaner to get rid of remnants, then install drivers again and see what happens.
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Alereon posted:Pet peeve: Stop saying ATI, there is no such company anymore. There is a company named AMD that makes CPUs, GPUs, and APUs. Using the ATI name sort of made a kind of sense a few years back when they still had separated operations and used the ATI brand, but that was quite awhile ago. ATI NEVER FORGET 
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Ozz81 posted:I'd try drivers first, to be safe - did you have any issues before updating to the most recent revision? Also, be sure to wipe the drivers, use Driver Sweeper/Driver Cleaner to get rid of remnants, then install drivers again and see what happens. That fixed it - I'd already reinstalled, but not using Driver Sweeper so something must have been hanging on in there. Thanks!
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May 8, 2012 19:04
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Party Boat posted:That fixed it - I'd already reinstalled, but not using Driver Sweeper so something must have been hanging on in there. Thanks! No prob  Driver Sweeper is one of the best things ever, saved me a ton of headaches when doing driver updates or reloads. Glad it cleared things up for you 
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May 8, 2012 19:11
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Party Boat posted:I've got a persistent issue with my Actually, the Radeon HD 5000 series was the last to use "ATI" branding, so even though AMD produced it, it's proper name indeed included the name of the older company. 
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Agreed posted:Is this a moderator demand, or just something that bugs you? 'Cause I'm probably going to keep saying ATI, not to piss you off, but because I can't help but think of them as anything but ATI, or, charitably, AMD/ATI. Unless it's gonna get me banned.
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Agreed posted:Is this a moderator demand, or just something that bugs you? 'Cause I'm probably going to keep saying ATI, not to piss you off, but because I can't help but think of them as anything but ATI, or, charitably, AMD/ATI. Unless it's gonna get me banned.  Sorry, I couldn't resist It's just a thing that gets on my nerves for some reason, I'm certainly not going to punish anyone over it. I'm not even sure what bothers me about it, it just makes me read your post in the voice of a teenaged fanboy. Big red titles for people who admit to buying Bulldozers, on the other hand, are a thing that will happen!
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May 9, 2012 02:22
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So wait do I need to change my sign now?  
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May 9, 2012 02:57
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Geforce GTX670 NDA expired so reviews are out: reference GTX670: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_670/ ASUS GeForce GTX 670 Direct CU II: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GTX_670_Direct_Cu_II/ That is one good card, the ASUS one especially. ASUS one is on par with GTX680 performance with lower power consumption, less noise and is 80$ cheaper.  AMD is seriously hosed now unless they drop prices.
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Well, I would think supply issues and being in the UK are probably part of that. It will be interesting to see what happens this summer, presumably they'll be able to keep them in stock. I hope so anyway, because I'll probably have enough money to upgrade from my 580, which I know is stupid but dear god Kepler is sexy 
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Dogen posted:Well, I would think supply issues and being in the UK are probably part of that. It will be interesting to see what happens this summer, presumably they'll be able to keep them in stock. Time to get serious about a pact that if you upgrade to Kepler, you'll sell me the 580 and we can talk about maybe swapping power supplies. LOOK MAN I NEED 60 FPS, you've seen what it does to me! You've seen!
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Looking at those reviews, you'd have to be an idiot to get the reference design over that ASUS for 20 bucks more.
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May 10, 2012 18:07
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Agreed posted:Time to get serious about a pact that if you upgrade to Kepler, you'll sell me the 580 and we can talk about maybe swapping power supplies. What! I need that 1kW of power (despite the fact that the kill a watt I borrowed hits ~300 in Crysis 2). But yeah I'll keep that in mind, though it's not a blower design which I understand can be problematic when doing SLI (though I think if you have one blower and one axial it works out ok).
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May 10, 2012 20:11
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KillHour posted:Looking at those reviews, you'd have to be an idiot to get the reference design over that ASUS for 20 bucks more.
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May 10, 2012 20:39
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I feel so dumb for buying a 7950 now. The GTX570 eats the 7950 in everything I play. It's disturbing.
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May 10, 2012 21:36
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Goon Matchmaker posted:I feel so dumb for buying a 7950 now. The GTX570 eats the 7950 in everything I play. It's disturbing. You're behind a generation there. I'm glad I don't have the urge to go for top of the line graphics performance. It's expensive, and there's stuff like this that happens when you're impatient.
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May 10, 2012 21:45
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Still sittin' pretty wit' dual sixty eight fitties. 
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May 10, 2012 23:16
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It may be a good idea if someone industrious and diligent started a Nvidia discussion thread or a general video card chat. We can probably discuss Nvidia more efficiently outside of the AMD megathread.
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May 10, 2012 23:50
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Movax has been working on a GPU thread OP for a while now.
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May 10, 2012 23:53
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The GPU thread OP Movax and I are working on is at 16.7K words and it was supposed to be up a few days ago (since we still have at least 4K of non-critical content to go but the critical stuff is done). Totally his fault 
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May 10, 2012 23:53
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Post it and add more later! There's too much to talk about right now with GPUs.
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May 11, 2012 00:01
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Doing it now! Factory Factory I PM'd but you should GChat me as well.
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May 11, 2012 00:04
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It's up and getting filled in now.
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May 11, 2012 00:13
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I've renamed this the "AMD CPU and Platform Discussion" thread.
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May 11, 2012 01:29
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Anandtech's AMD Trinity (A10M-4600M) mobile review is up.
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Alereon posted:Anandtech's AMD Trinity (A10M-4600M) mobile review is up. Tom's review is here: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/a10-4600m-trinity-piledriver,3202.html I have to say, I'm impressed by the new Piledriver cores. AMD turned the total poo poo Bulldozer into a half-way decent CPU. It still doesn't match Sandy Bridge (and definitely not Ivy), but the Piledriver cores does get a lot closer and is certainly "good enough" for many people. And the GPU beats HD 4000 in almost every benchmark. Now if someone will put out a $600-700 14" 1600x900 IPS AMD Trinity ultrabook-style laptop I'd buy it for sure.
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