Hi, Guest
07-29-2005, 02:11 AM
NOS2Go4Me
I'm intrigued by your assessment of the AMD vs. Intel wars, you sound as though you have your hands buried in the guts of a PC far more than I do even on my worst day ;) I wonder whether now with the world focusing on the energy consumption of every appliance in the home, whether both major chip makers will be under the gun even more to get the heat/power issues down (I still think that multi-processor cores won't come into their own as a useful thing for a few years yet myself, besides M$ will just use one core for drawing the pretty graphics behind Windows Vista :rolleyes:).
As to the ATI vs. Nvidia, ATI too was caught with their hands in the cookie jar of "benchmark friendly coding" for their drivers more than once. It's all a giant game of "flag waving" (PG term) As long as my games run at a decent resolution and framerate I'm happy, I hardly need the "k3wl3st" graphics board out there (Still running an ASUS card based on an Nvidia 4200 Ti chipset)
As to HD's, again, purely anecdotal on my part, HD's are by their nature going to fail, its just a matter of what fails first :ph34r:
NefCanuck
I'm intrigued by your assessment of the AMD vs. Intel wars, you sound as though you have your hands buried in the guts of a PC far more than I do even on my worst day ;) I wonder whether now with the world focusing on the energy consumption of every appliance in the home, whether both major chip makers will be under the gun even more to get the heat/power issues down (I still think that multi-processor cores won't come into their own as a useful thing for a few years yet myself, besides M$ will just use one core for drawing the pretty graphics behind Windows Vista :rolleyes:).
As to the ATI vs. Nvidia, ATI too was caught with their hands in the cookie jar of "benchmark friendly coding" for their drivers more than once. It's all a giant game of "flag waving" (PG term) As long as my games run at a decent resolution and framerate I'm happy, I hardly need the "k3wl3st" graphics board out there (Still running an ASUS card based on an Nvidia 4200 Ti chipset)
As to HD's, again, purely anecdotal on my part, HD's are by their nature going to fail, its just a matter of what fails first :ph34r:
NefCanuck