Comments on: AMd pushes out Spider platform

By: wheeee

wheeee — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:29:47 +0000

You and your buddy haven’t been following technology all that long, go take a look around the net and then note the development being done in partnership with IBM on smaller die processes for their fabs. You don’t just churn out 32nm chips on a whim. Part of why NVIDIA and ATI are able to move faster in this realm is the outsourcing of the parts to TSMC. People have been debating that now for a while if they should or shouldn’t ditch their fabs so that the outside plants only have to worry about re-tooling.

By: costa200

costa200 — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:17:36 +0000

this is nothing, my company is going to launch a box with 8 cores…

By: mogolman

mogolman — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:27:55 +0000

“nvlddmkm has stopped responding 3 times and some of them have succesfully restarted. You can continue playing your game in half the screen” DirectX 10.1? Try playing a game in DirectX 10 in Vista, and then we’ll see about that 0.1

By: steven

steven — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:13:27 +0000

#22 and yours did add something useful? yeah it did about as much as mine

By: tvgetsdull

tvgetsdull — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:40:09 +0000

The simple rule I follow with PC hardware is this:

$1000 (Australian) per year, about $800-$900US

That covers top end motherboards, cpu and gpu one at a time. With that budget you can play any game on the market and some games play very well. I have lived like this for 4 or 5 years and played EVERYTHING. PC gaming rules.

By: George W Bush

George W Bush — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:59:26 +0000

@ 34

The max details on Crysis were on DX 9 mode, no cracks or tweaks. The cutscenes were choppy especially the first one, but the game was perfectly playable, only slowed down in really intense areas a bit.

@ 32

X, You must be joking instead, the ridiculous ‘everything is shiny’ effect on modern games like COD4 is hardly realistic. Lights don’t reflect off every wrinkle of leather like in those games, and really the ‘laser light’ effect was in use in Doom 3, and lighting on slimy things like blood and monster muscle is little changed now in a modern game like Jericho for example. Look at the latest update to the Source engine in Half Life episode two; apart from slimier looking vertigaunts, and better textures, not radically different from Half Life 2. Now compare the difference in graphics between No One Lives Forever from 2000 and Far Cry March 2004. I’d say I was totally correct that the diffence in that time period is a lot more noticeable than 2004 and now.

By: erazare

erazare — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:43:43 +0000

“Operating Systems, Games and Most softwarte cant even utilize the power of a Dual Core in most cases, let alone Quad”
laugh

obviously you havent tried server2003 or… even better get server2008

I am running Server 2008 (windows 7) thing smokes, can utilize 8 duos (I only have one…) and makes any previous MacroShaft windows OS look like an commodore vic-20

Server 2k3 and 2k8 are the only real OS’s vista is a joke and xp is crap.

on the flip, linux has had multiple processor support forever (in my experience at least since RH5) so really you need to be a little more careful in your terms.

multiple processor tech was never intended for your home user moron, it was intended for server enviroments. as of 2k3 those who actually tried it out will tell you that they were easily reconfigured for gameplay and in most cases far superior to the home-user OS variant (XP)

By: jonny_cool

jonny_cool — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:27:27 +0000

AMD isn’t trying to beat Intel and nVidia, but only trying to offer an alternative to their products. But their products have lower performances than Intel’s and nVidia’s products (but the they have the same performance to price ratio).
What I think is that AMD needs to lower the prices even more so it could be more competitive therefor people would buy it more.

By: DaLoon

DaLoon — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:27:21 +0000

my zx spectrum runs better than intell an amd put together

By: MEME

MEME — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:06:50 +0000

As I was saying to a buddy the other day, AMD is almost too far behind now to catch up, regardless of whatever cool names they come up with for their new gen stuff. Their new cpu’s are 65nm technology, or in other words, what Intel put out 16 months ago. That is why a Core2Duo runnig 2.13ghz can smoke a fx5200/6000 any day of the week. AMD should be putting out 45nm stuff to keep up, but instead they’re choosing to go with year and a half old technology (65nm) and hope that the neat other stuff they do will draw buyers. Sorry AMD, you guys are all washed up.

By: wheeee

wheeee — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:23:34 +0000

@36

Yeah a nuclear reactor, that’s a good one. Except the whole reduced power design of the 3850 and 3870 and the current processors using 95w TDP still.

It’s cool it seems a lot of people haven’t RTFA on the net.

By: blob

blob — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:07:42 +0000

SAV it’s better..
I hope AMD get this right if not, Intel and Nvidia will own our asses we need competition.
ATI’s dual 3870 X2 gpu card looks good two of those babies in crossfire yaa. I might be able to play Crysis at 40fps lol

By: SAV

SAV — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:05:07 +0000

Is this better or worse then Halo 3?

By: []D[][]v[][]D

[]D[][]v[][]D — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:40:52 +0000

guess you need nuk reactor to power all that crap lol

By: Sticky

Sticky — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:07:10 +0000

LMFAO i have a 3700+ and its only 2.2 but its rated for 3.4 LOL amd owns intel…. end of story