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Intel Quad Core Caters to PC Gamers
http://www.edn.com/article/CA6395573.html Funny that Intel's demo system used but a single Nvidia card - their mobo does not support Nvidia in SLI mode, but DOES support ATI in SLI mode. I wonder why they chose Nvidia? 8) |
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I wonder why they chose Nvidia? 8)
Maybe because AMD own ATI? |
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Because AMD bought ATI. ATI is now the enemy to Intel. So Intel uses
Nvidia boards. DaveW ---------------- "chrisv" wrote in message ... http://www.edn.com/article/CA6395573.html Funny that Intel's demo system used but a single Nvidia card - their mobo does not support Nvidia in SLI mode, but DOES support ATI in SLI mode. I wonder why they chose Nvidia? 8) |
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:17:27 -0600, chrisv
wrote: http://www.edn.com/article/CA6395573.html Funny that Intel's demo system used but a single Nvidia card - their mobo does not support Nvidia in SLI mode, but DOES support ATI in SLI mode. I wonder why they chose Nvidia? 8) Actually, despite what you might intially think, it probably doens't have too much to do with AMD and ATI being one and the same now. What's much more likely is that they just went for the higher performance video setup they could get, and right now nVidia is beating the pants off ATI. A single GeForce 8800 can match or beat the performance of two top-of-the-line ATI cards. -- Tony Hill hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca |
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chrisv wrote:
http://www.edn.com/article/CA6395573.html Funny that Intel's demo system used but a single Nvidia card - their mobo does not support Nvidia in SLI mode, but DOES support ATI in SLI mode. I wonder why they chose Nvidia? 8) And Nvidia is charging upto $120 for an SLI chipset for Intel. I've bought motherboards for less than half of that! It doesn't charge that much for AMD chipsets. Yousuf Khan |
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:17:27 -0600, chrisv wrote:
http://www.edn.com/article/CA6395573.html Funny that Intel's demo system used but a single Nvidia card - their mobo does not support Nvidia in SLI mode, but DOES support ATI in SLI mode. I wonder why they chose Nvidia? 8) Just further proof, if we needed it, that Intel's is a hate-based culture... with a dusting of bi-polar disorder.... sickos! -- Rgds, George Macdonald |
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"chrisv" wrote in message
... http://www.edn.com/article/CA6395573.html Funny that Intel's demo system used but a single Nvidia card - their mobo does not support Nvidia in SLI mode, but DOES support ATI in SLI mode. I wonder why they chose Nvidia? 8) Because a single Geforce 8800GTX is a match for a pair of X1950XTX's in Crossfire... http://www.techreport.com/reviews/20...ion-hdr-aa.gif -JB |
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Tony Hill wrote:
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:17:27 -0600, chrisv wrote: http://www.edn.com/article/CA6395573.html Funny that Intel's demo system used but a single Nvidia card - their mobo does not support Nvidia in SLI mode, but DOES support ATI in SLI mode. I wonder why they chose Nvidia? 8) Actually, despite what you might intially think, it probably doens't have too much to do with AMD and ATI being one and the same now. What's much more likely is that they just went for the higher performance video setup they could get, and right now nVidia is beating the pants off ATI. A single GeForce 8800 can match or beat the performance of two top-of-the-line ATI cards. Hmm... I guess I hadn't thought of that. Maybe I shouldn't be so cynical, eh? 8) Still, from what I've read, a high-end Conroe would probably keep-up with any video card on the planet, no quad-core needed... |
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chrisv wrote:
Still, from what I've read, a high-end Conroe would probably keep-up with any video card on the planet, no quad-core needed... Depends on the resolution. As soon as the FPS remains the same no matter what detail level you've set on the game, then you've reached CPU limits. Those do exist on Conroe too. Yousuf Khan |
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On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:36:53 -0500, Yousuf Khan wrote:
chrisv wrote: Still, from what I've read, a high-end Conroe would probably keep-up with any video card on the planet, no quad-core needed... Depends on the resolution. As soon as the FPS remains the same no matter what detail level you've set on the game, then you've reached CPU limits. Those do exist on Conroe too. Don't you mean CPU "contribution" limit? IOW what you've really reached is the GPU limit - i.e. it doesn't matter how much faster the CPU can deliver its info, the GPU is pegged. Interestingly that point seems to have moved up dramatically fairly recently. I'm not a gamer so only look at such benchmarks occasionally but I notice that the gamer benchmarks no longer even bother with 640x480 as a CPU comparison point. At high detail, the resolution point where the CPU performance quits "contributing" is now somewhere around 1600x1200... with exceptions of course. -- Rgds, George Macdonald |
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