Intel vs. AMD

A lot quieter because they use better fans

 

oh ok...how big is 8800GTX size compare to R600?...

 

It's 11" long, R600 should be just over the 9" size of the X1900s...

 

holy..11"...thats long for a graphics card...doesn't look like it can fit into a mid-tower...

 

It can't, hence why I can't use one.

 

And the fact that your 4200 would hold it back. OC it to 2.4GHz and then you'll be in a *bit* better standing.

 

You reckon?

 

damn that sucks...i hope 7950GT can fit...

What! u didnt OC ur 4200+...i thought u did

 

ati fans will be happy.

@sam
its not your card but the theory is the same

edit

http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_37789.htm

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~114493,00.html

does this mean cheaper card for us all?

looks like i was right about the amd/ati wanting to build a platfrom to tackle centrino and that the aio chips would be for the lowend pcs.some intresting viewing.

 

GTR, yes the 7950GT is a standard length card.
I did OC my 4200+ but at the same time I did i picked up a software instability, that made my overclocks very confusing as to what was causing crashes, so i set it back to stock and haven't tried again yet. I think I'll make a clean OS on a second partition to test overclocks.

I already knew the R600 would only be GDDR4, I didn't expect anything else. I disregard the tom's hardware article, for the simple reason that my eyes (don't know about yours) aren't very good at determing between 100fps and 250fps. In no instance through those tests did I see a point where having a slower CPU will cause me to have a worse game experience. It's just numbers.
About the press release, if I was being a fanboy, I'd say it's because Intel want to see what AMD/ATi are up to... lol
Video interview is very interesting and confirms whati thought all along. Combined CPU&GPU chips are for more effective low end markets than high performance. Thermally it's just too difficult otherwise.

 

ya they're just making it more confusing...

 

sam i think you might want to try google for any terms you dont understand before you just dissmiss things. daamit as i would of expected you to know is a p£$%take name for the amd and ati, and ufo and pele is the codenames they assigned to the types of ram on the cards for their prototype r600 gpus.

i can understand your reluctance to belive that they would degrade their new cards with somthing like gddr3, but if they need to compete with nvidia on price i think the pro cards will and up with it and the xt cards will get the gddr4 as they are the premium product.

now im not saying the inquirer is allways right, but there is no smoke with out fire, is there?

as for the better cpu giving better better performace, give it a go yourself, but under clock, drop your multi 1 and see if it has an effect on the demo in fear. my current +14% gives me an av of 47fps over the 41fps at stock with the same gpu settings. as for the article on toms i did say it was the thoery, not the figures that would be the same.

amd phones, pdas and archos style multi-media players in the future then.

 

My apologies, I can't believe they actually chose that name!

 

ok that helped sorting out the problem/argument...

 

Did it? Real or not? I'm confused!

 

its taking the mickey,a p**s take, does look good tho, quite a few journos use the term as it is an anagram of, amd+ati=daamit

ati have got a new logo out, aparently its all curvy?

 

Not seen the new logo, but that sign had me real confused.

 

i have just seen the alleged new logo...hhmmm i couldnt tell the difference. but i have yet to find anything offfical.

 

uh...u can type slower...

well...not totally solve the confusion...just a little...i think...

oh my friend said that AMD is faster than Intel wen it comes to surfing the net etc but Intel is faster wen is comes to processor speed...is that tru...