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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.

So more bollocks then more then likely. :oops:

Ahh ty

How is it he happened to have a camera secretly recording? Is this a known thing with tv repairs with repair people damaging the tv to get-out of warranty?

RGT

Ahh, the days of slot1\a cpu's in their own little cartridge type system. :cry:

At the time intel had basically written amd off as a competitor, the company was almost bankrupt during that period. NVidia are in a similar type of position in the sense they think they're basically untouchable considering the RT uplift they have over amd which is quite substantial. Time will...

It could happen, NVidia are in the same place intel were not all that long ago, basically with a virtual monopoly, on top of the world. AMD came out with Ryzen which was a kick in the balls for intel to say the least, nothing to say they cant do it in the gpu space.

That's been a "rumour" since around August\Sept last year.

Why don't they go with ultra again? That has its roots back in the Geforce 2 line. Super sounds almost childish.

I used to notice differences years ago between amd and nvidia, i switched from an nvidia card to an amd card around the release of Team Fortress 2 and found the amd card more colourful. But not really noticed it too much in games the last few years despite owning amd and nvidia cards at...

Looks nice but fuck that for that price.

Both companies have fucked around this gen, maybe the public backlash they've endured will make them play it straighter for the next gen, doubting it.

Maybe not, but the intention was there. Then their reasoning about '2 cards with the same name being confusing' was also a massive cop out. The 30 series had 10 gig cards, and 12 gig cards with the same name, coupled with LHR versions, yet somehow there was no confusion there. Suddenly...

It's not like NVidia are entirely innocent either, that whole 2 4080's bullshit that people immediately seen through for example. Dunno wtf they were snorting in the boardroom when they came up with that one.

Pretty dumb naming scheme then it has to be said. That's like saying the 7900xt isn't the replacement for the 6900xt and shouldn't be compared to it. Is that amd basically admitting that everything this gen was shifted up a tier, hence 7900xt is really 7800xt (before this new one came out)...

It surprised me HD-DVD didn't win. Simply for the reasons that everyone knew what DVD was, and for a few years by that point consumers had been beaten over the head with the phrase "High Definition". Seemed a no brainer, but Sony shenanigans won the day. :eek:

Lot of shite.

It's generally what people that go by word of mouth believe, AMD inherited the 'bad driver' thing when they bought ATI, back in the day (20+ years ago) their drivers could be dodgy, but apparently people still like to hold onto the myth that that situation somehow hasn't improved in a few decades..

Horrendous software support? Is this 2002 or have I missed something? It really is funny how many people still believe the 'bad driver' bs that hasn't been a factor in years. Both nvidia and amd have the occasional dodgy driver set, yet when its an amd driver there's uproar. Remember that...

And do you have "internal access" to know this or just firing off twitter rumours ? Ive seen this "nvidia killer" caper in other releases as well and it never turns out that way, just seems to be supposed leakers firing off bs to fuel the hype train.

Do we need planning permission to install this fucker? Is a vertical mount gonna potentially tip the case over? :eek:

To the shock of nobody :LOL:

More excited about my next bowel movement to be fair.

Shite! That is all.

Looks like hbm alongside the die in the image.