Nvidia Licenses SLI to AMD, Did Hell Freeze Over?

[nstgc]

Always remember folks.

AMD CPU = Dead Torrenting.

Whats that suppose to mean?

[NaRu]

Always remember folks.

AMD CPU = Dead Torrenting.

Whats that suppose to mean?

what he saying is the AMD cant complete torrents?

[Meomix]

Always remember folks.

AMD CPU = Dead Torrenting.

Whats that suppose to mean?

what he saying is the AMD cant complete torrents?

Some AMD CPU's have a fatal flaw that conflicts with the uTorrents algorithm, so whenever you use uTorrent your internet becomes worse than dial up.

[Lupin]

Some AMD CPU's have a fatal flaw that conflicts with the uTorrents algorithm, so whenever you use uTorrent your internet becomes worse than dial up.

any links that support these claims?

[Meomix]

Some AMD CPU's have a fatal flaw that conflicts with the uTorrents algorithm, so whenever you use uTorrent your internet becomes worse than dial up.

any links that support these claims?

Apart from me experiencing this first hand, here ya go.

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=21178
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=200532

[kureshii]

So, I guess the motherboard of my main PC is from the future because it supports AMD CPUs (Socket 940, Opteron 2xx) and SLI.

It is in all likelihood an nForce motherboard, so AMD had no say in its SLI licensing :3

Lupin, you should drop by the IRC channel sometime. We’d have much more interesting hardware/computing discussions.

[Lupin]

Apart from me experiencing this first hand, here ya go.

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=21178
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=200532

Are you using similar setups to the ones on those threads? Those threads are pretty old.

I do use an AMD proc and experience the occasional network slowdowns but I always attributed these issues to my ancient dsl modem.

Lupin, you should drop by the IRC channel sometime. We’d have much more interesting hardware/computing discussions.

I'd like that but I'm scared of entering bakabt's channel. I feel like Duki's watching my every move

[Meomix]

Apart from me experiencing this first hand, here ya go.

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=21178
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=200532

Are you using similar setups to the ones on those threads? Those threads are pretty old.

I do use an AMD proc and experience the occasional network slowdowns but I always attributed these issues to my ancient dsl modem.

Cant remember but i think i was using a ASUS motherboard AMD Athlon 32bit 1.9GHZ. And no i'm using fiber optic 100mbps.

[kureshii]

Those are pretty old posts, and this seems to be an early issue with dual-cores that required an XP patch. Is it still a recurring issue now for XP SP3 and Windows Vista/7?



Lupin, no need to worry; Duki appears for like 5 minutes a week only anyway

[Meomix]

I was using XP SP3 at the time so it's safe to say that it is.

[kureshii]

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/20864

Whoops, looks like our hopes were dashed

[kitamesume]

FINALLY sli on amd, good thing bulldozer aint out yet. i`m still saving up cash, currently at 300$, i hope bulldozer aint disappointing. (by December i`m assuming it`ll be at 600$, not only that, Christmas discounts! yummy~)

[Wintereise]

Always remember folks.

AMD CPU = Dead Torrenting.

Whats that suppose to mean?

what he saying is the AMD cant complete torrents?

Some AMD CPU's have a fatal flaw that conflicts with the uTorrents algorithm, so whenever you use uTorrent your internet becomes worse than dial up.

How is that 'Dead Torrenting'?

Are you implying that uTorrent is the only torrent client in the world? Sigh.....
And, as it'd appear from that thread, Optimizer patches exist for that as of date.

And, I'm pretty sure that no recent AMD CPUs have that problem, I'm sitting on a Dual Opteron config as I write this and it has absolutely no problem utilizing the 1gbit/s connection it's hooked to, with uTorrent or not.

[Meomix]

Always remember folks.

AMD CPU = Dead Torrenting.

Whats that suppose to mean?

what he saying is the AMD cant complete torrents?

Some AMD CPU's have a fatal flaw that conflicts with the uTorrents algorithm, so whenever you use uTorrent your internet becomes worse than dial up.

How is that 'Dead Torrenting'?

Are you implying that uTorrent is the only torrent client in the world? Sigh.....
And, as it'd appear from that thread, Optimizer patches exist for that as of date.

And, I'm pretty sure that no recent AMD CPUs have that problem, I'm sitting on a Dual Opteron config as I write this and it has absolutely no problem utilizing the 1gbit/s connection it's hooked to, with uTorrent or not.

Whether i "only" used uTorrent or not and i tried Vuze, Firefox Plugins, Bittorent etc etc the issue back then still persisted. Frankly i'm just glad to have a powerful, stable CPU now.

[Wintereise]

Always remember folks.

AMD CPU = Dead Torrenting.

Whats that suppose to mean?

what he saying is the AMD cant complete torrents?

Some AMD CPU's have a fatal flaw that conflicts with the uTorrents algorithm, so whenever you use uTorrent your internet becomes worse than dial up.

How is that 'Dead Torrenting'?

Are you implying that uTorrent is the only torrent client in the world? Sigh.....
And, as it'd appear from that thread, Optimizer patches exist for that as of date.

And, I'm pretty sure that no recent AMD CPUs have that problem, I'm sitting on a Dual Opteron config as I write this and it has absolutely no problem utilizing the 1gbit/s connection it's hooked to, with uTorrent or not.

Whether i "only" used uTorrent or not and i tried Vuze, Firefox Plugins, Bittorent etc etc the issue back then still persisted. Frankly i'm just glad to have a powerful, stable CPU now.

And? The issue in question has been fixed. It sounds more like a windows failure than AMD failure. The drivers for that particular CPU weren't included. I see this as no reason to disregard AMD CPUs in general.

And I say that as an avid Intel user. Any and all AMDs I use are for my work, my personal desk is still an i7. AMD is simply the way to go if you wanna go 'cost effective and functional', as it seems.

[kitamesume]

too many quote chains.

anyway, on GPUs, if AMD gets a hold of physx i`d gladly become an AMD fan =D but still, on Processors, Intel still has some sweet spot, like super low idle states and a decent performance even with the low ends. if AMD fails to overthrow intel with their bulldozers then i`m still sticking with intel, not to mention ivy bridge is coming soon too which is 20% faster than sandy bridge as wiki says. is there anything amd is hiding that is more interesting than bulldozers right now?

if bulldozers were half of intel's price and performs the same then thats a win~

[Lupin]

anyway, on GPUs, if AMD gets a hold of physx i`d gladly become an AMD fan

considering most games don't utilize physics heavily or even use physx engine, it's a big waste of licensing cash for AMD.

on Processors, Intel still has some sweet spot, like super low idle states and a decent performance even with the low ends. if AMD fails to overthrow intel with their bulldozers then i`m still sticking with intel, not to mention ivy bridge is coming soon too which is 20% faster than sandy bridge as wiki says.

enjoy your expensive platform then

is there anything amd is hiding that is more interesting than bulldozers right now?

if bulldozers were half of intel's price and performs the same then thats a win~

if AMD is hiding something, it's benchmarks benchmarks benchmarks. This is very similar to how they launched clawhammer almost a decade ago--very little info. They even altered the benchmarks back then to make it look like it's under performing. quite the oposite of how they launched phenom

[kitamesume]

ahahaha yea, i hated intel for being too expensive, i hated amd for being old and doesnt support sli, amd hasnt launched anything for the past few years with a few exceptions, bulldozer took a loooooong time just to even get announced, now we're still waiting for "it" to be retailed. i`m always short on cash, it takes me months to save up some good amount, so i always tend to do at least dual cards, to save some initial expense on cash.

i got my eyes on HD 6670, cheap and neat, plus it scores wicked on HQV, good replacement over my GT240 for the gaming HTPC =D

if bulldozer's mainstream matches intel's mainstream under 200$ then that`ll be worth the wait.

[sdedalus83]

if bulldozer's mainstream matches intel's mainstream under 200$ then that`ll be worth the wait.

Unfortunately Intel is killing AMD at the $200 point right now.  The i5 2500k is at least as good as any Thuban in heavy multitasking and is far better in games and anything that uses 4 cores or fewer, all while drawing a lot less power.  And a decent P67 board costs no more than a decent 870 or 880G board while also giving you the option of SLI.

[kitamesume]

thats the reason why i`m still clinging to intel =P and only that reason.

BUT i still am using my AMD rig =D namely Athlon II X4 640 XD its my only quad with an HD 4770.