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Originally posted by: Rusin
Well AMD's graphics department has a lot more potential at the moment compared to their CPU department. CPU-front looks right now very bad and there doesn't seem to be anything arriving to change that.
Originally posted by: Bateluer
If thats true, it should coincide nicely with my Economic Stimulus refund.
Originally posted by: byronm
Originally posted by: Bateluer
If thats true, it should coincide nicely with my Economic Stimulus refund.
Ahh yes, the 2 tanks of gas rebate check
Originally posted by: ArchAngel777
Originally posted by: byronm
Originally posted by: Bateluer
If thats true, it should coincide nicely with my Economic Stimulus refund.
Ahh yes, the 2 tanks of gas rebate check
Quit driving that Ford Ecxursion and you should get several more tanks of gas out of that rebate check.
Originally posted by: geokilla
Seems like ATI/AMD is on a roll. First they had great success with the development of the HD3000 series, and now the RV770. Nothing can go wrong now for ATI. It should give NVIDIA a run for its money.
Now if only AMD could do just as well with their CPUs......
Originally posted by: Lithan
Originally posted by: geokilla
Seems like ATI/AMD is on a roll. First they had great success with the development of the HD3000 series, and now the RV770. Nothing can go wrong now for ATI. It should give NVIDIA a run for its money.
Now if only AMD could do just as well with their CPUs......
Great success? Used to be every time ATi or Nvidia released a new card it would unseat their competitors top card... and not just because it threw an extra core onto it... now just having a card that some people are willing to buy is a great success? I mean 38XX arent bad cards but I wouldn't consider them commercially successful. Now 9700pro? THAT was a great success for ATI... since then they've had enough minor success to stay afloat... but Nvidia has for the most part dominated.
Now, if they can combine Nvidia's recent ability to reduce power draw with new gens with their own ability to make mediocre families turn much better with new releases... then I'll stand up and take notice.
Originally posted by: Rusin
Geokilla:
Well last year AMD's graphics department did do +/- 0 result. This year reports are saying that AMD would have made losses in all areas [which would indicate also graphics department]. Wonder why people didn't buy more of HD3870 and HD3850 cards when they were new..they had price advantage then? Now 9600 GT costs something like what HD3850 costs..and 9600 GT equals HD3870's performance.
Originally posted by: Lithan
Originally posted by: geokilla
Seems like ATI/AMD is on a roll. First they had great success with the development of the HD3000 series, and now the RV770. Nothing can go wrong now for ATI. It should give NVIDIA a run for its money.
Now if only AMD could do just as well with their CPUs......
Great success? Used to be every time ATi or Nvidia released a new card it would unseat their competitors top card... and not just because it threw an extra core onto it... now just having a card that some people are willing to buy is a great success? I mean 38XX arent bad cards but I wouldn't consider them commercially successful. Now 9700pro? THAT was a great success for ATI... since then they've had enough minor success to stay afloat... but Nvidia has for the most part dominated.
Now, if they can combine Nvidia's recent ability to reduce power draw with new gens with their own ability to make mediocre families turn much better with new releases... then I'll stand up and take notice.
Originally posted by: evolucion8
nVidia dominated in the most part? X800XT outperformed the 6800 Ultra in sales and performance, the Radeon X1800XT outperformed the 7800GTX 256, the X1900XT outperformed the 7800GTX 512 and the 7900GT, the X1950XTX outperformed the 7900GTX and the 7950GT, so I guess that it means that nVidia had enough minor success to stay afloat, but ATi has for the most part dominated, until now that nVidia's high end market is dominating, while ATi is dominating the midrange.
Originally posted by: superbooga
Originally posted by: evolucion8
nVidia dominated in the most part? X800XT outperformed the 6800 Ultra in sales and performance, the Radeon X1800XT outperformed the 7800GTX 256, the X1900XT outperformed the 7800GTX 512 and the 7900GT, the X1950XTX outperformed the 7900GTX and the 7950GT, so I guess that it means that nVidia had enough minor success to stay afloat, but ATi has for the most part dominated, until now that nVidia's high end market is dominating, while ATi is dominating the midrange.
Enough minor success to stay afloat? Actually nVidia flourished while ATI stagnated this period. Not in technology but in financial success. Even though ATI had the performance crown, they over-designed their chips and could not make enough money from them. While the x1950xtx was awesome technology, it screwed ATI financially. Not having an effective solution to the 6600GT and 7600GT also hurt them badly; using a cut-down high-end card to compete, which is what ATI did, IS NOT the solution.
Originally posted by: darkrisen2003
Does anyone know for a fact that its going to be 600 bucks or is it going to be taxed based on your income or whatever? Im really curious.
Originally posted by: byronm
Originally posted by: darkrisen2003
Does anyone know for a fact that its going to be 600 bucks or is it going to be taxed based on your income or whatever? Im really curious.
I believe it will just be part of your 08 stated income and a pure check/refund.
While i'm sarcastic about the price of gas, i do look forward to my rebate. Several credit cards have it claimed already.
Basic Information on the Stimulus Payments
Updated March 17, 2008 ? new 1040A-3 package
You've heard about it. Now find out how to get yours.
What is it? It's an economic stimulus payment that more than 130 million households will receive starting in May. It's not taxable, and it won't reduce your 2007 or 2008 refund or increase the amount you owe when you file your 2008 return.
In most benchmarks, the 9600GT sits right between the HD 3850 and HD 3870, in games where shader power counts, it tends to lag slighly more, with Anti Aliasing activated, the 9600GT tends to be as fast or slighly faster, specially on lower resolutions.