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[LittleNemoNES]

This place is kinda shleepy @ the moment.
Seems like it should be more lively -- What with R600 coming out and G80 still hot...

Quickly, someone make up some rumor or something...

Here's one:

G80 SLI WHQL drivers for Vista coming out @ midnight!

<_<
>_>

 

[JAG87]

get a gf?

 

[40sTheme]

Yeah; i'm kind of disappointed with the lack of threads the past few weeks... we just need something huge to happen; some big news; etc.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

Originally posted by: JAG87


get a gf?

You did smile @ the end so I'm not too annoyed @ your response

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: 40sTheme
Yeah; i'm kind of disappointed with the lack of threads the past few weeks... we just need something huge to happen; some big news; etc.

The R600 rumor mill has been *very* quiet compared to previous launches. It kinda reminds me of the R9700 launch.

The trouble with R600 is that it's *late* and probably won't beat G80 by much at all.

 

[JAG87]

Originally posted by: gersson

Originally posted by: JAG87


get a gf?

You did smile @ the end so I'm not too annoyed @ your response

:laugh:

you know im just kidding, but yea we do need some insider R600 news already... like some spy pics. i remember the day the G80 spy pics were posted i was going nutz.

 

[40sTheme]

I wonder what AMD/ATi is planning... I don't think I'm going to believe the Inq's ideas... I believe R600 is going to be a very good launch for ATi as far as variety goes (rather than just having two ultra high end cards). I think they are paying attention to DX10's supposed scalability and are adjusting R600's PCB variety as such. It's hard to say what to make of it. It's almost eerily hush-hush as of now...

 

[lavaheadache]

Originally posted by: SickBeast

Originally posted by: 40sTheme
Yeah; i'm kind of disappointed with the lack of threads the past few weeks... we just need something huge to happen; some big news; etc.

The R600 rumor mill has been *very* quiet compared to previous launches. It kinda reminds me of the R9700 launch.

The trouble with R600 is that it's *late* and probably won't beat G80 by much at all.

I think differently, not on the late part though

 

[Wreckage]

SiS, XGI, PowerVR & VIA will merge to form a super chip that will conquer all.

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: lavaheadache

Originally posted by: SickBeast

Originally posted by: 40sTheme
Yeah; i'm kind of disappointed with the lack of threads the past few weeks... we just need something huge to happen; some big news; etc.

The R600 rumor mill has been *very* quiet compared to previous launches. It kinda reminds me of the R9700 launch.

The trouble with R600 is that it's *late* and probably won't beat G80 by much at all.

I think differently, not on the late part though

How many "pipes" does the R600 have then? We knew that info for R580 and such.

 

[apoppin]

start a Petition to UnBan Rollo
:Q



maybe the mods could give him a time-limited *guest pass* on slow days

20 minutes once-a-week sounds alright



btw, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. arrives on March 22nd

 

[Gamingphreek]

Originally posted by: apoppin
start a Petition to UnBan Rollo
:Q



maybe the mods could give him a time-limited *guest pass* on slow days

20 minutes once-a-week sounds alright



btw, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. arrives on March 22nd

Haha. Really outside of the viral marketing aspect, he was a really personable guy and would always help if he could. (I only know this through limited PM's)

Stalker looks good!

-Kevin

 

[BFG10K]

Call me boring but I'm still waiting for new G80 drivers for XP. The outstanding issues seemed to have been washed away with the torrent of Vista and R600 threads.

 

[BassBomb]

gerr why dont we just bicker about things we wish would happen?!

I hope, AMD/ATI's R600 comes out at like 600$ cdn (for reference 8800GTX came out ~800$)

to drive the prices down!!! because the high end price jumps are just ridiculous

 

[TheRyuu]

Originally posted by: apoppin
start a Petition to UnBan Rollo
:Q



maybe the mods could give him a time-limited *guest pass* on slow days

20 minutes once-a-week sounds alright



btw, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. arrives on March 22nd

lol
The minute I saw this thread I thought of Rollo.

And hurray about STALKER.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: wizboy11

Originally posted by: apoppin
start a Petition to UnBan Rollo
:Q



maybe the mods could give him a time-limited *guest pass* on slow days

20 minutes once-a-week sounds alright



btw, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. arrives on March 22nd

lol
The minute I saw this thread I thought of Rollo.

And hurray about STALKER.

don't you guys ... like

...

play video games .... or something?


... or check out SW/Games ... there ARE new demos ... GREAT bargain-bin games
[PREY/Fable/Q4/DM M&M/Tron2.0 ... games you never played ...
heck, i traded Red Faction for Bloodlines ... should be arriving this week]
:thumbsup:

howz that petition going?
:evil:


reminds me ... i am the *good hero* in Fable LC ... much work to be done

Aloha

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: SickBeast

Originally posted by: 40sTheme
Yeah; i'm kind of disappointed with the lack of threads the past few weeks... we just need something huge to happen; some big news; etc.

The R600 rumor mill has been *very* quiet compared to previous launches. It kinda reminds me of the R9700 launch.

The trouble with R600 is that it's *late* and probably won't beat G80 by much at all.

On the contrary! The most probable reason R600 is so late is because they wouldn't release it until it was just a scooch faster than G80. Maybe they had to go 512-bit memory bus because it has only 64 shaders? It just may have sky high clocks with no overclocking room. I'm thinking you can only compensate so much with memory bandwidth before the diminishing returns. So I thoroughly believe R600 will compete nicely with G80 and of course exceed it in certain areas. ATI has had paaaaalunty of time to insure this.

/gersson's rumour request.

 

[Stumps]

maybe getting Akshayt banned was a bad idea....at least he used to be good for a laugh.

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003

Originally posted by: SickBeast

Originally posted by: 40sTheme
Yeah; i'm kind of disappointed with the lack of threads the past few weeks... we just need something huge to happen; some big news; etc.

The R600 rumor mill has been *very* quiet compared to previous launches. It kinda reminds me of the R9700 launch.

The trouble with R600 is that it's *late* and probably won't beat G80 by much at all.

On the contrary! The most probable reason R600 is so late is because they wouldn't release it until it was just a scooch faster than G80. Maybe they had to go 512-bit memory bus because it has only 64 shaders? It just may have sky high clocks with no overclocking room. I'm thinking you can only compensate so much with memory bandwidth before the diminishing returns. So I thoroughly believe R600 will compete nicely with G80 and of course exceed it in certain areas. ATI has had paaaaalunty of time to insure this.

/gersson's rumour request.

It's anyone's guess at the moment.

The early rumors called the performace of R600 "disappointing" and "barely better" than G80. That was in late 2006. The more recent rumors were that ATI's AIB partners were quite pleased with the R600 performance. Perhaps they tweaked it up a bit. My guess is that it will be 20% faster overall. To me that's disappointing considering that the G80 came out 6 months sooner, pretty much a full generation.

With AMD/ATI both playing catchup (slowly and uneffectively thus far), I'm actually worried about the company! Their stock is at a 52 week low.

Also keep in mind that the G80 refresh should be ready to go by the time the R600 launches. It doesn't look good for ATI at the moment. G80 is too incredible.

 

[40sTheme]

Originally posted by: Stumps
maybe getting Akshayt banned was a bad idea....at least he used to be good for a laugh.

He got banned?! Geez... it finally occurred. In his final topic, I really thought he was beginning to have some LOGIC and THINK THROUGH PROBLEMS but then he proved me wrong once again. What a fool...

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: 40sTheme

Originally posted by: Stumps
maybe getting Akshayt banned was a bad idea....at least he used to be good for a laugh.

He got banned?! Geez... it finally occurred. In his final topic, I really thought he was beginning to have some LOGIC and THINK THROUGH PROBLEMS but then he proved me wrong once again. What a fool...

The bans have been good for the forum. I would rather silence than flame wars and AEG anytime.

 

[fierydemise]

STALKER, finally I've been looking forward to that game forever, heres hoping it lives up to the hype.

On rumors I predict R600 will be slightly faster then G80 (5-10%) then nVidia will release a refresh with higher clocks that is about equal to R600 which will drive down the price of first gen G80s and the consumers win.
/pipedream

 

[CP5670]

Originally posted by: 40sTheme

Originally posted by: Stumps
maybe getting Akshayt banned was a bad idea....at least he used to be good for a laugh.

He got banned?! Geez... it finally occurred. In his final topic, I really thought he was beginning to have some LOGIC and THINK THROUGH PROBLEMS but then he proved me wrong once again. What a fool...

Heh, I guess you didn't see the last page or so of posts. He started flaming everyone when more people realized that he was just messing with us and probably had no real problems.

 

[schneiderguy]

isnt ut2007 supposed to come out soon? that'll give us something to talk about

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: 40sTheme

Originally posted by: Stumps
maybe getting Akshayt banned was a bad idea....at least he used to be good for a laugh.

He got banned?! Geez... it finally occurred. In his final topic, I really thought he was beginning to have some LOGIC and THINK THROUGH PROBLEMS but then he proved me wrong once again. What a fool...

don't get too excited ... it's 2 weeks *vacation* ...

and it's about halfway ... i think

... and if you look very carefully ... he began to think logically because he was desperate and on the verge of being banned for quite a few posts after the mod warning.

IF he can settle down and respect forum limits and its tolerance, he could be a useful contributer here