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Nvidia playing Hard-to-Get got Backfired

Serpentarius — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:43:45 +0800

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/15919/1/

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Nvidia partners discontinued GTX285 and GTX275
Written by Fuad Abazovic
Monday, 12 October 2009 11:32

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And GTX260

Several Nvidia partners have confirmed that they had to decide to cancel GTX 285 and GTX 275 based products, as availability was simply disastrous.

We still don’t now if this is Nvidia's strategy to keep the market hungry for Fermi or they simply didn't order enough wafers, but availability of GTX260, GTX275 and GTX285 was so bad that many decided to drop these products and wait for Fermi.

The lucky ones can sell Radeon HD 5870 and 5850, as they are selling good, but the 5870 is mainly on allocation and that doesn’t really help a lot.

The GT200 generation is slowly but surely running towards its retirement and if you want one, simply grab it while you still can, or get RV870 or Fermi when it comes out.

i hope it's not too old news to you all ...

maybe GTX285 and GTX275 prices is going to soar high after this ...

Intel ad campaign to shift focus from CPU to brand

Serpentarius — Thu, 07 May 2009 10:20:48 +0800

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For many, the word that first comes to mind when thinking of Intel is "processor". However, despite being widely regarded as the leader of its field, the semiconductor giant is hoping to change its processor-orientated image by launching its biggest ad campaign in three years.

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=18307

Deliciously taking the bigger slice in the computing hardware market, what's gonna happen to Intel CPUs in future? Will it be another Apple?
From specialization to generalization ...

AMD to Intel: Real men use real cores

Serpentarius — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:06:44 +0800

http://techpulse360.com/2009/04/06/amd-cou...formance-price/

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Real men use real cores. We’ve got real cores across our products. Hyperthreading is basically designed to act like a core except that it only gives 10 to 15 percent performance bump for real applications workload. That’s because hyperthreading requires the core logic to maintain 2 pipelines: its normal pipeline and its hyperthreaded pipeline. A management overhead that doesn’t give you a clear throughput.

what you guys think?

Core i7 a waste of money for gamers, says Nvidia

Serpentarius — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:48:44 +0800

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Intel’s Nehalem architecture might have generated a lot of excitement and rave reviews, but it turns out that Nvidia isn’t that impressed with its impact on gaming performance. In fact, yesterday the company described Intel’s claims about Core i7's gaming performance as “disingenuous” in a presentation to introduce Nvidia’s concept of an optimised gaming PC.

In the presentation, Nvidia’s technical marketing director Tom Petersen said “I have a copy of Intel’s latest deck that they share with press and customers, and on there they have a slide that is called The Intel Core i7 920 Processor, where they claim that gaming performance goes up by 80 percent when you use a Core i7. Now, I was impressed by that claim, and I was trying to figure out how they could possibly say such a thing, and it turns out that Intel is basing that claim on only 3DMark Vantage’s CPU test.”.............

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2009...y-says-nvidia/1