With a few huge exceptions, like the old 9500 to 9800 mod, overclocking and modding graphics cards has been relatively unrewarding, to the point that I doubt it's much of a market concern.
I bet they neutered overclocking in the 580 so that we wouldn't have card reviewers telling us about melted video cards.
They are falling down on the execution; the additional cost of Ion 2 over GMA seems to push netbooks and nettops into the low-end desktop PC price range.
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This won't generate a request to every website in the search results list. This is very important when surfing from work (and also a good thing for security; those thumbnails have been the cause of a lot of drive-by malware infections).
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Also, I love posting a lovingly-crafted comment in the wrong thread. Cheers!
You just pointed out that there is a motive. Motive does not equal action.
In other news, captainpanic, you murder people for their money.
That's deeply interesting. Do you have a good source I could look at?
I hate to break this to you, but you aren't actually a proper anarchist. You're just a crazy person.
I'm sure there won't be any dirty jokes made about this at all.
My bubbles. They are MINE.
You are doing something wrong. nVidia cards don't just do that.
comprehension fail.
You need to get your fucking English checked, friend.
A counterpoint to the obvious: there's a place in the world for generous, naive people. They are GOOD people, generally.
It's a goddamned shame that scam artists take advantage of them.
With a few huge exceptions, like the old 9500 to 9800 mod, overclocking and modding graphics cards has been relatively unrewarding, to the point that I doubt it's much of a market concern.
I bet they neutered overclocking in the 580 so that we wouldn't have card reviewers telling us about melted video cards.
Remember the FX5900 and 3DMark03?
That's why we don't trust synthetics.
8800GTX is not "worth" $200 of gaming performance. It's worth maybe $65 on a few select cases where power consumption isn't a concern.
It costs that much because they're a niche item.
They are falling down on the execution; the additional cost of Ion 2 over GMA seems to push netbooks and nettops into the low-end desktop PC price range.
Unless you have six monitors, you were probably duped. A single 5870 is a goddamned powerhouse.
For anyone looking to compare this to the numerous chrome/firefox plugins that generate thumbnail previews:
This won't generate a request to every website in the search results list. This is very important when surfing from work (and also a good thing for security; those thumbnails have been the cause of a lot of drive-by malware infections).
Maybe they'll get the next billion dollars.
I'm gonna feed this troll.
What about Radeon 9700, 9800, x800, 4800, 5800 before Fermi, and 6850 before GF110?
Also, ATI cards play games and do it well. I don't know what driver issues you're talking about.
Right.
This is a bit offtopic, but I, like many people who have limited time, play all games on the easiest or next-to-easiest mode.
It's OK. We have Grooveshark.
I suspect the legendary "rotating noggin" was an engine issue.
And the person holding the gamepad isn't very technical either. Good QA testing could be done by a ten-year-old.
If the multiplayer is that short-lived, something is horribly, horribly wrong.
If only you were a PC gamer...
Only if you're an abject moron that downloads my_heart_will_go_on.mp3.exe