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    Upgrading From a 4890 - Best Bang for Buck Right Now?

    It's funny, I too have a 4890, and I just upgraded to a 7850 for $150, I was pretty pleased with that deal.
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    Chip rankings: Intel had highest share in over 10 years (EETimes)

    You are missing his point obviously, Apple technically isn't on the list because the overwhelming majority of their revenue is obviously from mobile devices, just as for Google, and Microsoft, who's revenue comes from obvious sources. That's kinda his point, that the majority of IBM's revenue...
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    GTX 680 launch video - Narrated by Ujesh Desai, VP Corporate Marketing - Nvidia

    Why would you sell a 7970...? Odds are, if you game at 1920x1080, your card is more than fast enough, if you game at a higher resolution, it would be better to stick with the 7970 and just OC it. There aren't even any OC reviews on this yet.
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    GTX680, images from THG review leaked

    I can already tell Nvidia is going to mess up the pricing on this great card...It's suppose to fill the shoes of the GTX 560 and GTX 570, and so it should be priced around there. I would say $359 would be a completely reasonable price for a card like this. We all know that the only reason the...
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    GTX680, images from THG review leaked

    I have 1200 hours in Shogun II, and play heavily modded Skyrim, so I might wanna consider upgrading my 4890 to a 3 GB+ card...
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    GTX680, images from THG review leaked

    Its called having new and shiny stuff, its always overpriced. Remember the last time Nvidia was first to the market with the next generation? You might not be old enough to remember given your antics, but I distinctly remember the GTX 8800's sitting pretty at just over $800. But that't not rape...
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    GTX680, images from THG review leaked

    You are out of your mind with definite statements like that...Both companies trade places for best value, lately they have stagnated, but before, one company would "rape" you for your money while the other had its way with you next generation. Its called profit, not rape btw...
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    GTX680, images from THG review leaked

    Only when the 7970 magically loses 10 or 20 FPS from previous benchmarks :hmm: That said though, who knows, no real benchmarks have been released, and with that little tidbit of info, I'm not so sure how legitimate these are.
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    GTX680, images from THG review leaked

    Have people figured out yet if this is middle end or high end? I thought people were saying the first card released would be the replacer to the GTX 560, and that its replacing GF104 type architectures. Now this is called GTX 680, and beats AMD high end...Was the community mislead to begin with...
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    AMD 7950s are on Newegg

    Why is everyone complaining about prices? For one, pretty sure AMD set the MSRP of the 7970 to $479, so these high prices aren't entirely their doing. Secondly, they just came out, why does everybody freak out when parts that just come out are overpriced and ones that are about to be replaced...
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    Do 'retina' displays eliminate the need for AA?

    I'm hoping we find a more elegant and advanced way of displaying images by the time resolutions reach that point. A breakthrough in the way we display things would likely be spurred on by a breakthrough in GPU's, so basically semiconductors all together. You will never see that resolution the...
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    Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7-3770K Overclocking

    I hope the multiplier is being limited or something, maybe its just a bad ES chip. I was hoping for this thing to hit 5.5 GHz honestly. I mean, this at 2 GHz will be faster than anything AMD has, but still...:$
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    Possible custom HD 7970 on (or near) release?

    I really love all MSI products, but their video cards are probably their best. The Twin Frozr cooler is one of the best, and MSI cards very generally OC the highest, use the least power, or are the coolest, and sometimes all 3 at the same time :thumbsup: Asus DCII is also quite nice, I'd say the...
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    [wccftech] Another leaked Kepler performance slide 760/770/780/790...

    Been put for a while, looks like its been photoshopped more from the original fake, and its obviously fake.
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    Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs will be available on April 8

    I know Intel has absolutely no competition and no reason to make these fast, but it really would be nice if they starting both cranking up the speed and price of the incoming CPU's. And by speed, I dont necessarily mean clock speed, but just architecturally speaking, make these faster. If...
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    7970 Overclocking with voltage control :o)

    :hmm: Troll harder? Expected? You gotta be joking me...
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    AMD Radeon 7000-Series 28nm (Southern Islands) | 7990 7970 7870 7770 | Discussion

    I think a lot of people are looking at this card all wrong. When you actually think about things, this quite is much better than a lot of people are thinking, or atleast, AMD's strategy with this card is much more commendable. Few points to consider: 1. When the 5870 first came out, it wasn't...
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    AMD Radeon 7000-Series 28nm (Southern Islands) | 7990 7970 7870 7770 | Discussion

    Same boat here. Performance doesnt seem high enough off the bat to warrant an unquestionable success, but its good enough to not be disappointing, so more features and details are needed to decide.
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    AMD Radeon 7000-Series 28nm (Southern Islands) | 7990 7970 7870 7770 | Discussion

    Yeh fortunately for me, Shogun 2 and Skyrim, along with BF3, are my main 3 games :awe: Although I must say, a more in depth review would be nice. I want to see overclocking, more games, non-reference cooling and noise, and so on before I make my choice. Most important pricing, along with the...
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    AMD Radeon 7000-Series 28nm (Southern Islands) | 7990 7970 7870 7770 | Discussion

    http://nl.hardware.info/reviews/2472/39/amd-radeon-hd-7970-review-conclusie First review I have found. Most benchmarks seem to put it at like 15% faster than the GTX 580, or atleast the ones that matter: And they werent kidding about the low idle power consumption either...
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    AMD Radeon 7000-Series 28nm (Southern Islands) | 7990 7970 7870 7770 | Discussion

    It is either capable of selling at that price, so high performance, or it is being gouged insanely bad. Either or both scenarios is highly likely. Since when is a card not price gouged on release?
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    AMD Radeon 7000-Series 28nm (Southern Islands) | 7990 7970 7870 7770 | Discussion

    You can say that again, who cares if you get an extra 2 FPS in Crysis if your GPU sounds like a lawn mower. I hope Nvidia releases a similar feature.
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    AMD Radeon 7000-Series 28nm (Southern Islands) | 7990 7970 7870 7770 | Discussion

    I highly doubt it will unlock into a 6970, but I'd agree it will be a much better value as usual and have some sweet OC headroom. To be honest, I'm more curious how GCN responds to higher clocks, VLIW5 and VLIW4 could be OC'ed 20% but only get like 12% more performance, where as say a GTX 560...
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    AMD Radeon 7000-Series 28nm (Southern Islands) | 7990 7970 7870 7770 | Discussion

    I don't see why people complain so much. The alternative is NDA is lifted same day as launch, so we get reviews the day they are released. If there's a paper launch, we get to see benchmarks and reviews of the card a few days to a few weeks in advance, so that we can make an educated choice of...
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    AMD Radeon 7000-Series 28nm (Southern Islands) | 7990 7970 7870 7770 | Discussion

    To be honest I agree. I mean, before a card is released, there is usually little to no negative info about it since everybody is trying to hype it up and Nvidia/AMD are releasing grossly overestimated performance charts. So to come to a negative conclusion about a card that nobody even has takes...
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    AMD Radeon 7000-Series 28nm (Southern Islands) | 7990 7970 7870 7770 | Discussion

    http://semiaccurate.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3825&page=231 There's the thread
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    [CPU World] Prices of Ivy Bridge desktop processors

    Very nice prices, seems like Intel is basically freezing their pricing scheme like this until (if ever) AMD chooses to release a competitive product. $1000 for super high end 6-8c $300-320 for highest clocked quad core with HT $220 for highest clocked unlocked quadcore w/o HT. These prices...
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    Extremetech: "AMD cancels 28nm APUs, starts from scratch at TSMC"

    As long as they keep making GPU's, who needs AMD? I have a feeling Intel is quite a bit more "scared" of ARM than they are of AMD, since ARM is actually rising in market shares and profit, where as AMD just released a CPU with worse performance than their previous generation. Even if they keep...
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    nVidia 285.69 driver - possible stutter and performance fix for BF3

    XP fanboy's are hilarious...
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    DT: Next-generation 28nm GPUs Could Be 45 Percent Faster

    Why is everyone complaining, its not like we really even have games that can really test current GPU's. I mean I'm playing BF3 with most of the eye candy on ultra and I'm using a OC'ed 4890, so 45% from the shrink alone and then perhaps another 10-20% with changes to the arch's is not only...
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    Ask AMD about BD?

    Why? BD for desktops is absolutely HORRID, but he works for servers. In all the reviews, the only apps where BD beat i7's were things similar to what you would see in server workloads. Therefore, BD could still be a beast for servers, and thats all he cares about, since thats the division he...
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    AMD PileDriver Discussion thread

    If Pile Driver is 10% faster/better IPC than BD, atleast then AMD will finally beat an i7...
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    In defense of "Bulldozer"

    I have a feeling AMD lost a lot of fans...and rightfully so. Intels design released 10 months earlier uses less power, costs less, and is faster, and now with IB and SB-E coming out in the next 4-6 months, AMD will be so far behind they wont even be a viable option. Not to mention by the time...
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    Dont pass judgement on bulldozer yet...

    There is no defense of Bulldozer, its a bad arch, that came WAY too late, and costs WAY too much, and no AMD is stuck with the design for the next 3 years.
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    Why is the response to Bulldozer so overwhelmingly negative?

    I dont really like this argument to be honest, I can understand BD might be better for about 1% of the 1% of enthusiasts, just as a 1090T was better than the i7 920 for a decent chunk of enthusiasts, but the differences are absolutely insane. A 8150P starts at higher clocks, and OC's less...
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    Modules are more effective than hyperthreading, right?

    I think the reason AMD named all these CPU's after construction machines is because they are digging themselves a bigger hole with each new release.
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    Fudzilla: Bulldozer performance figures are in

    Wait, you honestly think that Intel wont charge any more than the i7 2600K for the i7 3820 and 3830? o_O
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    NVIDIA promises to ship Kepler this year

    Hmmm, right, Ill believe this when I see it. I have a feeling if they moved it up, its gonna be a pretty shaky process and they are rushing it to compete with AMD, and if they are lying, we may not see these cards retail till Q1 or Q2 2012. AMD of course also isnt exactly always on time with...
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    Fudzilla: Bulldozer performance figures are in

    A new socket is almost always required for IGP, if any of these have IGP's then they would likely need a new socket. Same if there were large architectural changes.