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R9 290X and R9 290 Owners Noise Discussion (Most Important Question)

The guys at AMD should think twice about their stock cooler, or hire sb who does! I'm not saying they need to hire a team of top industrial designers tweaking every single nozzle flexion for a futuristic looking design, as nVidia does, but rather think about their long-term business strategy...
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- Post #29
- Nov 5, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
AMD on track for launch of Kaveri in February 2014

So, you assume that Intel's 22nm production prices drop because they upgraded fabs to 14nm production?
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- Post #148
- Nov 1, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
The AMD Mantle Thread

Apart from the nv logo, I can't see any difference between a game using PhysX and a game using havoc or physics libraries integrated in the game engine.
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- Post #1,098
- Oct 24, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
Get to know Viral Marketers through Hardware History.

So, when's the opening of your museum?
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- Post #81
- Oct 21, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
R260/270/280/290/290x Review thread

Depends, and we need to find out at some point. There's those who buy one high-end card every 5 or so years in the hope the next one lasts an eternity, and there's others buying a handful high-end cards per year.
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- Post #440
- Oct 18, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
[PCPER] NVidia G-sync

As mad as it may sound, we're basically looking for a financially-starved, desperate-out-of-former-benevolence and soon-to-nearly-die company of sweet-natured engineers AND execs just to introduce a unified ISO standard, where another company of let's say equally-talented engineers is about to...
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- Post #57
- Oct 18, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
R260/270/280/290/290x Review thread

Take it easy, AMD isn't made up of marketing whizzes as the other remaining companies in that business. Doesn't prevent them from engineering great products though. Granted, their live-stream was entertaining as a documentary on limestone propagation where the only emotion arisen was anger for...
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- Post #353
- Oct 15, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
"Too Little, Too Late....Too Expensive" Did you agree?

Transistors is the least thing to worry about when talking prices. The issue with 20nm is far-higher-than-before fab upgrade and node development costs, wafer costs and lithography costs. And then, transistors are projected to be merely around 35% faster, unless upgraded to FinFet, which is even...
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- Post #58
- Oct 10, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
"Too Little, Too Late....Too Expensive" Did you agree?

This slogan as it stands leads to monopolistic (and in my view plain stupid) consumer behavior. No matter how a product is called and which company produces it, as consumers we should in all market situations embrace the variety of products, their respective features, flavors and ultimately...
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- Post #57
- Oct 10, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
videocardzAMD Radeon R9 290X confirmed to feature 64 ROPs

Sounds interesting. Where do you get that info from?
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- Post #108
- Oct 9, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
[fudzilla] The real reason behind apparent lack of Mantle devs

How about CUDA gaming edition?
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- Post #27
- Oct 9, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
R260/270/280/290/290x Review thread

Welcome to rebrand land! GPU-designers, OEMs and customers worldwide are happy about it. (I'm not, btw.) I wouldn't call Hawaii a farce but the R-rest a pity.
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- Post #163
- Oct 9, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
videocardzAMD Radeon R9 290X confirmed to feature 64 ROPs

Why bother about resale value at all when you're just happy with your graphics card (which ever company produced it)?
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- Post #42
- Oct 9, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
videocardzAMD Radeon R9 290X confirmed to feature 64 ROPs

Tahiti was AMD's first gpu on 28nm and they went with very conservative densities. As HurleyBird says, Pitcairn puts quite some more on the table. I've heard about the same rumor, but can't assign as to who said so. I have yet to find documents attesting that 28nm hpm has higher sram...
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- Post #40
- Oct 9, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
videocardzAMD Radeon R9 290X confirmed to feature 64 ROPs

let's see GK110-400-A1: 7,08bn transistors on 561 sqmm die area ~ 12,6m trans/sqmm Tahiti: 4,31bn transistors on 365 sqmm die area ~ 11,8m trans/sqmm Hawaii: ~6bn transistors (?) on 424 sqmm die area ~ 14,15m trans/sqmm So yes, if rumors are true, Hawaii is a massive jump in transistor density...
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- Post #16
- Oct 9, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards

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