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Overclocking the AMD Spider

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-fast-arachnid dept.

An anonymous reader writes "AMD has released two videos that show an overview of the new AMD Spider platform and how easy it is to overclock it with a single tool. The AMD Spider is based on AMD Phenom processors, the newly released ATI Radeon HD 3800 series discrete graphics and AMD 7-Series chipsets."

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  1. Choo! Choo! All aboard! by skoaldipper · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The marketing train...

    I felt like I just got ran over. Nice job AMD. Actually, the first flashvert was pretty slick with the transformer, and was fairly informative. Honestly, I didn't quite extract much information from the overclocking one, except for it's awailable date.

    Forgive me, but it's early Saturday morning here. And in the spirit of todays morning cartoon ritual, while munching on some Lucky charms cereal I fully expected the overclocking advert to finish with...

    "Shh! Be vewy vewy qwiet, I'm on my AMD hunting for more raw bits! Eh. Heh! Heh! Heh! Heh!"

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  2. Re:Why overclock when you can undervolt? by Jartan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I really don't see where the need to overclock comes from anymore.


    You seem to be looking at it from a non gaming perspective. Considering the article is about a gaming system that seems to be a bit off topic as far as viewpoints go.
  3. What's new? by mollymoo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perhaps I'm missing something, but this is noting new at all, is it? I mean, the only "innovation" here is that one company is making the CPU, chipset and graphics card. You know, like Intel have been for years. But AMD make one where the graphics card is targeted at gamers. Whoop-de-fucking-do.

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  4. I don't see the value by bl8n8r · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sucking up mass jigawatts of power off the grid to juice 4 video cards for gaming is insane. The target groups for this rig are people with compensation problems or ones with no concept or care for energy conservation. We're moving in the wrong direction folks.

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    1. Re:I don't see the value by slyn · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I don't think its a problem you'll need to worry about anytime soon. According to this, only 0.41% of about 165000 Steam users (when I just checked) have 2 GPU's. The number is probably way smaller for 3 card users, and probably barely anyone has a 4 card setup. The performance just doesn't scale well enough in SLI/Crossfire for it to be worth it to buy two GPU's. IIRC the performance increase in framerate is only around 30% if you are using two of the same model of GPU. It's just not cost effective enough for the masses to want to spend on these.

    2. Re:I don't see the value by Wrath0fb0b · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Sitting at home with any amount of computing power has to be more energy efficient than taking a car anywhere.

  5. I think this counts as insightful by Kupfernigk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In order to get to and from the office in a small European city car, with about the same real world consumption as a Prius, I use enough fuel to produce about 6KWH of electricity, enough to run a 4-GPU 2-screen rig for a morning (including the monitors). That is on the very low side for commutes; the guy who commutes from the next large city in his SUV uses as much fuel in a day as I do in two weeks. If one of the ultimate goals of these systems is virtual working in a photo realistic environment, they could be big enough to need a substantial water cooling system and still reduce global warming.

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