AMD: R8xx Speculation
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AMD really should do something about its signage leaking company secrets.
It's still ok
while we wouldnt have RV670 class cards under heatpipe HS that has occasional meltdowns on its memory controller even with the latest drivers. So we still se freezes if we run windowed dx6/7 office game and suddenly only we could move a pointer and se that windows buttons (in old wxp style) meltdown like burned out .... and only reset helps. Or is it a pcie2.0 reason on old mcp55 nvidia board. Fuzzy. But still not oriented to customer satisfaction. Yep we need to buy new crap every two yers or so to keep the spice flow. in the days of RV100/RV200 these were reliable products not some expensive chinese crap. Well at least we can use free Hydravison on ATi setup. Priceless.They call it manyways before launch of that x1650xt. But in fact there were only two chips RV570 that get into X1950Pro/Gt, and X1650XT and later much later with getting rid of bad chips into X1650GT. And R580+ which was that X1950XT/XTX. There was much mumbo jumbo just like with todays botanical confusion. Biggest card gets the smallest plant name -- Hemlock? Weird?
Yep but we all doesnt live on the west coast
.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Hemlock and if theyre so strictly botanist they shouldn't confuse us Mistletoe
Itcould work if it came out at xmas But you dont usually hang a mobo above the doors bt graphic card could do the deal What Redwood is really Sequoia alter ego in Californias botanical circles. Well it's always time to learn something. I'd make apetittion ... Give us an old school code names back. Cause flucking silicon and fr-14 pcb are not so ecologoical in fact.
Juniper will hardly be a 100USD part but we cam dream. Or it will be poor cooler and no bundle card ... 139USD or so is more viable for fancy new DX11 part. Especiallyif envy would have anything to offer. And hd4850 was 249USD iirc and hd4870 hd299USD at launch
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Just a random inclination to celebrate the silly season, it's my favorite time of year.Haha. Did you just get the random inclination, or did something show up on your desk as well?
Nothing showed up for me.
Again, there are many different kinds of Hemlocks, some are very large trees that can reach 70-80m tall.
As for the 4850, I recall picking it up for $150 at BestBuy the first week it was released, pretty sure it was a $199 MSRP.
Edit- Yes, $199 for 4850 and $299 for 4870 at launch.
Sound_Card
Regular
It's more then likely on purpose.
If the launch date is September 10th what are they going to show at Quakecon?
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/...re_DirectX_11_Graphics_Cards_at_Quakecon.html
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/...re_DirectX_11_Graphics_Cards_at_Quakecon.html
Well i remember that HD4850 wasnt so cheap here in Europe around 170€ w/o tax in time when that was 250USD and MSRP was newer so low iirc but they lower prices to 200USD on newegg around early February.
Well intel at ther IDFs shows chips that will e in stores in 3-6 mont time so it's not so hard to believe. It's just preheat before cooking so the eggs would broke.
Silent_Buddha
Legend
What interesting timing. Intel set to launch Core i5 on Sept. 8th. And AMD set to launch Dx11 parts on Sept. 10th. Coincidence? Somehow I don't think so.
I can see a lot of people possibly being tempted to build a new computer after that.
Regards,
SB
I can see a lot of people possibly being tempted to build a new computer after that.
Regards,
SB
100 lucky attendants get to see HD58XX serie in action and get a free (numbered) shirt with it. Nothing mystical about it.
With review boards out this week (and at QuakeCon) it means it's finished board production so we should get some leaks like board shots and box-art in the coming weeks.
The only thing AMD has to do to win market share back on the cpu front now is to sell Single Cores that unlock into six cores and can be purchased for $50 along with your spanking new Radeon (* this offer includes a free copy of Windows 7)
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Huh, come to think of it that actually is some pretty interesting business dynamics going on there.
Silent_Buddha
Legend
OK this bit is interesting...
So 3 display outputs? Triple monitor on one card?
Regards,
SB
A Trilleon outputs! I kid...I suppose that's very possible, but with so many dual dvi monitors out there, I wonder why the choice. Displayport is hardly prevalent. I'd even understand one DP, one HDMI, and one DVI.
Just a random inclination to celebrate the silly season, it's my favorite time of year.
Nothing showed up for me.
That sir, is a travesty. Hanners? Keep hope, and sparkle on.
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THERE'S A RUBY ACTION FIGURE?!?!
Don't fret Turtle, I never lose my sparkle that easy...too much fun still to be had.
Don't fret Turtle, I never lose my sparkle that easy...too much fun still to be had.
Nothing new : PowerColor HD 4850 (DisplayPort, HDMI, DVI, and S-Video) or S3 Chrome 5 GTX (DisplayPort, HDMI and DVI)
... but only two outputs can be active at the same time.
Silent_Buddha
Legend
Yeah I knew about those, but it's always been common to have 2 monitor outputs and a "TV output."
In this case though, that's 3 monitor outputs. Displayport can feed a DVI monitor and DVI can feed a display port monitor.
It would be similar to a vendor releasing a card with 2xDVI-D and 1xVGA.
Well except the VGA output wouldn't be able to feed a DVI monitor.
It just seems silly to have 3 outputs with only 2 able to be activated when all 3 are capable of driving the same display. In that case it'd be cheaper to just do 2x displayport with a DVI-D adapter. Or 2x DVI-D with a Display port adapter.
Regards,
SB
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