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Intel wants to charge 50 bucks to unlock preexisting features on your processor

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fohfoh:

--- Quote from: Lupin on September 20, 2010, 06:26:14 AM ---
--- Quote from: fohfoh on September 20, 2010, 05:22:35 AM ---I thought the AMD thing was a QC issue. Are you saying the video cards are also a QC issue?

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It's a QC issue but it can also be a supply one. If the demand for the lower models are high, AMD disables cores of the higher binned ones to keep up with the demand.

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Humm... and they still technically make a profit... less... but volume can make up for it... I schee.

But I concur... somehow intel still feels like it chugs along happier than AMD chips.

Lupin:

--- Quote from: fohfoh on September 20, 2010, 06:30:45 AM ---But I concur... somehow intel still feels like it chugs along happier than AMD chips.

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Intel's margins are better since they have the better chips and they can sell them at a premium. AMD has to cut their margins just to keep being competitive.

I hope Bulldozer greatly improves AMD's situation.

Mag-X:

--- Quote from: mgz on September 19, 2010, 07:27:55 PM ---
--- Quote from: Mag-X on September 19, 2010, 05:14:21 PM ---
--- Quote from: Natheria on September 19, 2010, 04:02:11 PM ---That actually reminded me of AMD's tri core CPUs that jut got pirate unlocked later to the original quad. XD

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It's not the same. AMD disables cores or cache because they're defective in some way. They don't like it when you unlock the disabled sections of the processors. Video cards are the same way. A Radeon 5850 is just a 5870 with cores disabled. A GTX 470 is a GTX 480 with cores disabled. Even the 480 ships with a bank of cores disabled.

Intel wouldn't allow an unlock if they weren't 100% sure that the CPU would work.

My current system is Intel, but with crap like this, and the upcoming CPUs being unable to be overclocked unless you pay more for the special K series is bullshit. I think this will be my first and only Intel system. Now if only it wasn't so hard to find an AMD motherboard that can do SLI.  >:(

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just dont run SLI get a single better video card and it often will cost less and do just as well

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That doesn't work if I want to run two high end cards.

AceHigh:
Or if you are a real SLI enthusiast, you will run 4-way SLI with graphic cards and motherboard delivered by EVGA

Yes, I said 4 way SLI, look here:
http://www.evga.com/products/moreInfo.asp?pn=170-BL-E762-A1&family=Motherboard%20Family&series=Intel%20X58%20Series%20Family&sw=5

Oh and yeah, AMD CPU are just not competitive on the high end... Actually it pisses me off that they will be dropping ATI brand from future graphic cards, when ATI have been much more successful lately. It's a bad joke that a company that does poorly assimilates a company that makes superior product on the market.

/end rant

rostheferret:

--- Quote from: AceHigh on September 20, 2010, 11:58:44 PM ---Or if you are a real SLI enthusiast, you will run 4-way SLI with graphic cards and motherboard delivered by EVGA
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I don't get the point of 4 way SLI. The only reason you would ever want one is if you were running the highest-end graphics cards around, and even then it wont be a 'true' 4-way SLI but two twin-SLI as there isn't the ability to crosslink more than two. nVidia cards have always run notoriously hot, and you want to run 4 right next to each other? How do you think you'll cool them? One fan and a heat sink? You can't liquid cool in that space. The cards alone will draw 600W of power when idle, and if you're very very lucky, you'll get a good couple of hours gaming in wearing nothing but your birthday suit and a towel to pat down the sweat in your custom built sauna before the top card begins to warp and/or melt. Assuming of course you actually override the failsafe and actually use them to their maximum capacity, because if you didn't, well we're back to the question of why the hell did you get 4-way SLI if you didn't actually want an improvement over 2-way.

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