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   #15. Posted at 10:22 AM on Oct 29th 2007 Edit   Reply
tesmar
chatty Taiwanese insiders

Does anyone at TR speak mandarin?
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#15, Does no one at Taiwan speak English? ;)  :  rxc6  (#26)  «

   #7. Posted at 07:51 AM on Oct 29th 2007, Edited at 07:52 AM on Oct 29th 2007 Edit   Reply
Vrock
Make it fast, quiet, cool running, and power efficient please. Oh, and cheap. Can you handle that, ATI? No? I didn't think so.
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#7, Are you looking for some banter or just having a bad morning...  :  poulpy  (#9)  «
#9, No, I'm just a pessimist! :)  :  Vrock  (#11)  «
#11, Well I'll be the optimist then, as I'm feeling fine to...  :  poulpy  (#12)  «
#7, It was Nidia's excellent idea to double clock their shaders ...  :  My Johnson  (#24)  «
#7, That is perhaps the most unsubstantiated opinion I've ever r...  :  d2brothe  (#25)  «

   #23. Posted at 04:33 PM on Oct 29th 2007 Edit   Reply
JoshMST
X800 chips had a higher limit on most DX9 functions, I believe they were considered SM 2.0b chips while the 9700 and 9800 were SM 2.0 (NVIDIA had the FX series as SM 2.0a).

If you want to find out some things they did for the RV670, I put some info up here: http://www.penstarsys.com/editor/so3d/q4_2007/index.html
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   #10. Posted at 08:26 AM on Oct 29th 2007 Edit   Reply
wingless
They should offer a trade-up program so us 2900XT owners can turn in these cards and get an HD 3870 much cheaper than retail. It sounds like AMD has ironed out all the bad things about the 2900XT with this new series. Hopefully the DX10.1 mandatory 4x AA requirement will mean this card can give good frame rates with AA enabled so I'm looking forward to that too. The 2900XT wouldn't have been so bad if it really did have a hardware UVD decoder on-board. Watching video has become a mess for me. They look like crap compared to my old 7900GT even!

Finally, I hope ATI has WORKING DRIVERS upon release of this new GPU. That will be a major key to it's success.
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#10, At very high resolution, you really don't need more than 2xA...  :  FubbHead  (#14)  «
#14, I don't know about you but I think that stair-stepping ed...  :  swaaye  (#21)  «
#10, Finally, I hope ATI has WORKING DRIVERS upon release of this...  :  willyolio  (#19)  «
#10, How would AMD benefit from a trade up program? Why would the...  :  0g1  (#22)  «

   #1. Posted at 02:35 AM on Oct 29th 2007 Edit   Reply
ssidbroadcast
I'll say it again; Marketers really need to come up with a more honest, easy to understand branding scheme.

Also, was the X800 series a refresh of the brilliant 9800 series hardware? Or was that a new chipset altogether over it's predecessor?
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#1, The X800 line was a new GPU altogether, compared to the 9800...  :  NeXus^  (#13)  «
#1, 9800 was a refresh of the 9700 Pro :)  :  Hance  (#18)  «
#1, 9800 and X800 are certainly different chips, but the technol...  :  swaaye  (#20)  «

   #5. Posted at 07:35 AM on Oct 29th 2007 Edit   Reply
DukenukemX
Same crap new day.

Until DX10 finds it's way out of Vista, the adopt rate is going to be low.
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#5, Why? That's not impeding the uptake of current DX10 hardware...  :  UberGerbil  (#17)  «

   #16. Posted at 11:37 AM on Oct 29th 2007 Edit   Reply
kvndoom
Nice coincidental "leak" there, same day as the 8800GT reviews start flooding the web.
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   #8. Posted at 07:58 AM on Oct 29th 2007 Edit   Reply
Mithent
I'm guessing that AMD are keen to look like they have an all-new architecture, following the underwhelming HD 2xxx series.
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   #6. Posted at 07:39 AM on Oct 29th 2007 Edit   Reply
Flying Fox
Get the hardware out on time and in quantity, and make sure it beats the G92. Nothing else matters.
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   #3. Posted at 03:58 AM on Oct 29th 2007 Edit   Reply
MadManOriginal
And are the 2950-cum-3000-series going to be hobbled with AA turned on or not? That's all that really matters to me.
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#3, Since 4xAA is supposed to be is mandatory in 10.1 I hope the...  :  dragmor  (#4)  «

   #2. Posted at 03:24 AM on Oct 29th 2007 Edit   Reply
UberGerbil
Well, a bunch of that was covered in the DX 10.1 Tech Preview in the August SDK (and in PPTs from earlier events), so it's not exactly a leak on the DX side of things. Though I guess the only "leak" is AMD's hardware plans.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/xna/aa937789.aspx
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