AMD, FTW!

Post by **Neophyte** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:59 pm

AMD (gamer's favorite CPU) acquires ATI for a cool $5.4 Billion. Says, GPU's will be integrated into CPU's in 2 years.

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/07/24/amd_acquires_ati/

Post by **Baron[CotC]** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:05 pm

Nooooo

Death of another good Canadian company at the hands of the USA.

SLIDER · Post by **SLIDER** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:43 pm

NO WAY!! your kidding right!

Post by **D.A.R.K.[CotC]** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:58 am

Sweet!!!

Post by **Akira** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 7:43 am

Oh, also, AMD dropping their CPU prices this week by 47%

Good time to get some cheap CPUs!

YouTube · Post by **NightReaver[CotC]** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:24 am

yeah...but why would you want to ruin a great chip by adding ATI????

Post by **Serpent** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:25 am

this is my favorite combo......ati and amd.....thats awesome.
i have onboard nvidia chipset, etc...b/c my mobo is that... with an amd cpu, but i have a seperate ati radeon that i am actually using. lol

TooLBlue · Post by **TooLBlue** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:50 am

Aagh, I think I'm going to be sick.

Post by **Neophyte** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 12:15 pm

NR, I suspect that an on-board chip is the target market that this goal will break in to. With MS Windows Vista and the Aero interface, you need a really robust GPU to run the GUI. This isn't present in chipset based graphics on mobo's today. And instead of asking Nvidia to bundle a more expensive GPU on the chipset AMD can combine the GPU into the CPU and provide these features. This puts pressure on Intel since they do not have a chipset which can run Aero yet. When you buy a computer in a few years Athlon will have a clear advantage over Pentium.

Now, if they would just stop using the stupid 4600+ clock performance ratings!

Post by **D.A.R.K.[CotC]** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 1:28 pm

I've trusted ATI ever since I bought my first vid card, and it's still here too! 128MB ATI Radeon 9600-XT!! It may be 3 years old, but ran everything!! And to make things better, when I bought that video card, it came with, free downloads of ALL the valve games at the time, up to CSS and HL2. I own 13 valve games, non-demo ones thx to ATI!!

Post by **Serpent** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 1:54 pm

D.A.R.K.[CotC] wrote:I've trusted ATI ever since I bought my first vid card, and it's still here too! 128MB ATI Radeon 9600-XT!! It may be 3 years old, but ran everything!! And to make things better, when I bought that video card, it came with, free downloads of ALL the valve games at the time, up to CSS and HL2. I own 13 valve games, non-demo ones thx to ATI!!

ditto, i used the ati bundle offer when i first got stuff via steam. hehee... and now i have two steam accounts with everything valve has done...except one thing and that is hl2:ep1...which i only have on one accnt. hehe