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Intel wants to charge 50 bucks to unlock preexisting features on your processor
captiosus:
down boys down, this as a thread on how much intel is diving back into the shiathole AMD scared them out of with the athlon series. If you want to wage a video card war, http://boards.4chan.org/g/ they have them daily
Meomix:
I started a hardrive system upgrade thread and it turned into the best way to protect your hardrive from espionage. I'd just say that this forum is naturally serious.
rostheferret:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on September 21, 2010, 03:25:18 PM ---I wasn't arguing about how pointless or not it is, just that 4 way SLI is actually possible.
I myself have been an ATI fanboy myself and the last time I used nVidia is when it's main competitor was the Voodoo cards from 3DFX. Right now I have a Radeon 5750 card.
If I would have invested money in a better rig, I would have bought 2 5900 cards and be happy with that.
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Fair enough. 5770 here; great minds think alike apparently :P
As for the matter at hand, this is why I will never buy an AMD. If intel want to disable a portion of their chip, then they accept the risks in doing so (with the likes of pirates unlocking it) and I see little wrong with it.
sdedalus83:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on September 20, 2010, 11:58:44 PM ---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
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At the time AMD assimilated ATI, ATI was on the verge of releasing a product which would have killed the company had it not been assimilated - it nearly killed AMD for fuck's sake. AMD's process tweaking and ATI's design teams saved both companies when they produced RV670.
AceHigh:
--- Quote from: sdedalus83 on September 22, 2010, 03:14:11 PM ---At the time AMD assimilated ATI, ATI was on the verge of releasing a product which would have killed the company had it not been assimilated - it nearly killed AMD for fuck's sake. AMD's process tweaking and ATI's design teams saved both companies when they produced RV670.
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Do you mean they were on verge killing their own company? I am sure their sales were really good at the time of assimilation, and I don't remember them being on verge of bankruptcy at that time.
And if they would have killed AMD, good riddance, it would give new manufacturers a chance to present their product on the market.
Besides, killing off a brand like that is still very stupid in my opinion. There is a reason why Toyota doesn't kill Lexus.
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