[MaadDaawg]

What's an AMD ? Know I heard that acroynm a long time ago, maybe a decade or two? They were supposed to dominate something or other, can't remember what.

Oh, weren't they the main competitor of Cyrex? Weren't they the first one to put multi-media profiles on their chips. First in anti-virus too IIRC?. Or were they the ones that abused a licensing agreement to "invent" their own x86 compatible chips? Been so long ago, I get confused

Guess they dominated the brands who weren't going to survive, but? one must ask the question on whether or not this AMD thing had anything to do with their demise, or if it was Darwiniasm at it's best?

Had it not been the millions and billions of stars, wait - that's someone else, okay - if it had not been for the billions of dollars the courts ordered Intel to pay AMD, would AMD still be alive or would they have gone the way of Cyrex, Radio Shack, and all the other non-players?

Looking more and more that AMD, whatever it is, will survive as a niche player at best.

Oh well

[Witchdoctor]

Well I hope AMD still presses on, They have as good of chance at hitting something that works as well as something that doesn't

The new chip = FAIL for us but will see a lot of action in entry level laptops and desktops at the big box stores,

Maybe the next one will be good .............

My whole thing here is the lack of competition could bring a complacency to Intel and actually slow down progress as we are spoon fed small incremental bumps in performance to maximize Intels profitability

Lets face it, in the GPU market dominated by nVidia, AMD is close enough to keep them honest and one slip means the preformance crown

This keeps the R & D at nV on their game and motivated.

I just wonder what will motivate the fatcat chip maker in the CPU arena

[MaadDaawg]

A lot of maybes in that thar post WD :

[ShrimpBrime]

Originally Posted by BenchZowner

Maximum details in which game ? And at what resolution ?
Forget about the first question, because it is granted that no IGP can handle any serious game ( Crysis 1/2, BFBC2, BF3, Assassins Creed, Hawx, Resident Evil 5, NFS Shift, anything... ) at maximum details even at just 1024x768.
Unless you consider 5fps minimum, 10fps avg, 12fps max playable framerates

I suppose next time I get a chance, I'll slap in one of your suggested games and run it on the IGP and big screen. Most of those games are playable.

The Llano rig at my house here dedicates TWO gigs of Ram to the Gpu. That's more ram than most 70$ cards you'll purchase.

[Neuromancer]

I <3 AMD.

then again when it comes to RC, I prefer brushless to nitro. Nitro might be faster but brushless has that instant snap that Intel err I mean nitro lacks

[Mr.Scott]

Originally Posted by Neuromancer

I <3 AMD.

then again when it comes to RC, I prefer brushless to nitro. Nitro might be faster but brushless has that instant snap that Intel err I mean nitro lacks

I see what you did there.

[ShrimpBrime]

Crysis + 3850 stock Llano + IGP 6550D + 47" LG @ Med settings 1024x768 OR 1920 x 1080 on low. In a window @ 1024 it'll run High settings and is as large as my 22" monitor on the 47" TV and not using an HDMI cable either even though I should be.

Merry Christmas + Happy New Years btw!