Recent content by Chris_B

They were cheesy but funny, but cost a lot as well which didn't help.

A refillable AIO would be nice for a change, vs the current aio's that are sealed.

Well; whatever. It was near 30 years ago regardless. :D

Original voodoo was late 95, I recall seeing the term gpu around 98. But i do know it was long before nvidia released their geforce 256. I even recall ati try to float the term VPU for visual processing unit shortly after the 256 appeared but that was short lived.

Yes but the article states that: "Not only did the 1st-gen Nvidia GeForce 256 introduce us to its now famous GeForce gaming graphics brand, but it also brought the term ‘GPU’ to the gaming PC with it." Which is utter crap as the term was in use before the 256 made an appearance. Not getting...

The term 'gpu' was floating about long before the geforce, nvidia didn't introduce it at all. That's like apple laying claim to the term 'mhz myth' back when they were doing little vids showing how the p4 long pipeline affected its performance, that was a term long before apple latched on to...

I take it lil Burkey wasn't around for the 8800 series?

You gather right, it's happened on asus cards and even the odd FE card. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H9XeH8G_mM&ab_channel=NorthridgeFix

The current lack of a 7950 doesn't necessarily mean rdna 3 can't scale to 3ghz.

AMD claimed rdna3 was good for up to 3ghz so a 7950 was basically expected to show up around this point but never did. Seen a few posts on forums from around summer last year with expectations for it to pop up around January, but nothing to date. :cautious:

So has the reference card got a lower power limit or clocks? That's the one i was looking at as i like the reference design. Ed: apparently it runs at a lower power target.

Might pick one up depending on the UK price, its at a really weird price point where you can get a 7800xt for a bit less, or a bit more depending, and its not as if the GRE much faster, a few % at most, which some of the oc 7800's are at, or better.

Bit of a change from the xp-esque one that's been hanging around for the better part of 20 years now. Worth a try at some point i suppose.

Reading old reviews the nostalgia flows, looking at how comparatively small the old cards were 20+ years ago coupled with the bare bones cooling with tiny fans and heatsinks, vs the 10+ LB goliaths we have today with multiple slots being needed, multiple power connections needed etc.

Yeah, think I'll pass on paying $3500 to look like 1980's Randy Savage.