Sorry if it sounded like I was implying that you diddn't know the difference. What I meant is that there are people who would easily be fooled, and those people shouldn't build systems. Its quite amazing the smoked motherboards ive seen from people who know very little about building computer (not that its difficult)
Those same people then come to me with the broken parts and say "help me fix this".
At siggraph the demo wasnt running at full movie theatre resolution (i dont remember what the exact res is, but it blows this wimpy 1600x1200 i run on my monitor away!) Still, that sony box is pretty impressive.
Thats kind of silly. Blaming AMD for somthing an unscrupulous vendor does. As long as you buy from reputible vendors you don't have to worry. And If you get fooled into thinking there is such a thing as a "copper duron" you probally arn't well informed enough to be building a system yourself. Call Dell or Gateway, they can fix you up with a nice system (for a not so nice price of course)
-nite
From what I've heard we will probally have to wait untill early next year for 760MP. Good thing is that all the current chips (even the durons!) will be supported in SMP when the boards become available. What I plan on doing soon is building a descently fast T-bird system (800+ whatever is a good deal) then sometime next year when the SMP boards are out get another processor of the same stepping (but for less since there will be more price cuts by then) and having myself a nice dual system.
>Doesn't marketing do anything at Intel.
No, thats just it, they spent months comming up with that name. And, I bet they got well paid to do it. I must be in the wrong line of work.
Everyone whined when AMD announced 'Athlon' and 'Duron'... but at least they came up with new names.
-nite
You missed the point... sure the effort to create a CD is negligable and, hell, CD are dirt cheap. I dont mind making a cd for myself (how else am I going to listen to my music in the car?) but there is no way in hell I'm going to pay the man 20 bucks for the privledge of making my own CD's when I can go buy the originals for less and make my own CDs out of them.
> If Dell/Compaq/Micron/etc don't package this hardware properly, then the Intel/Rambus camp may continue to succeed in spite of its inferior performance.
You have your grouping wrong, Dell belongs with Intel/Rambus not Compaq/Micron. Dell has not (and does not plan to) ship any AMD based systems. Which is really a shame becaue Dell has made some great systems but will not acknowledge that AMD is here to stay.
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Sorry if it sounded like I was implying that you diddn't know the difference. What I meant is that there are people who would easily be fooled, and those people shouldn't build systems. Its quite amazing the smoked motherboards ive seen from people who know very little about building computer (not that its difficult)
Those same people then come to me with the broken parts and say "help me fix this".
I just have to laugh...
-nite
At siggraph the demo wasnt running at full movie theatre resolution (i dont remember what the exact res is, but it blows this wimpy 1600x1200 i run on my monitor away!) Still, that sony box is pretty impressive.
-nite
Thats kind of silly. Blaming AMD for somthing an unscrupulous vendor does. As long as you buy from reputible vendors you don't have to worry. And If you get fooled into thinking there is such a thing as a "copper duron" you probally arn't well informed enough to be building a system yourself. Call Dell or Gateway, they can fix you up with a nice system (for a not so nice price of course) -nite
From what I've heard we will probally have to wait untill early next year for 760MP. Good thing is that all the current chips (even the durons!) will be supported in SMP when the boards become available. What I plan on doing soon is building a descently fast T-bird system (800+ whatever is a good deal) then sometime next year when the SMP boards are out get another processor of the same stepping (but for less since there will be more price cuts by then) and having myself a nice dual system.
>Doesn't marketing do anything at Intel. No, thats just it, they spent months comming up with that name. And, I bet they got well paid to do it. I must be in the wrong line of work. Everyone whined when AMD announced 'Athlon' and 'Duron'... but at least they came up with new names. -nite
You missed the point... sure the effort to create a CD is negligable and, hell, CD are dirt cheap. I dont mind making a cd for myself (how else am I going to listen to my music in the car?) but there is no way in hell I'm going to pay the man 20 bucks for the privledge of making my own CD's when I can go buy the originals for less and make my own CDs out of them.
> If Dell/Compaq/Micron/etc don't package this hardware properly, then the Intel/Rambus camp may continue to succeed in spite of its inferior performance.
You have your grouping wrong, Dell belongs with Intel/Rambus not Compaq/Micron. Dell has not (and does not plan to) ship any AMD based systems. Which is really a shame becaue Dell has made some great systems but will not acknowledge that AMD is here to stay.
Anybody see friday's Outer Limits?? Hmm, this does sound familar...