AMD and ATI May Merge

[Echilon]

I never realised ATI cards were such power hogs. Does this mean next week we'll be seeing 'ATI/AMD merger confirmed to be false', then the week after 'ATi and AMD have merged'? :shifty:

[ANova]

Obviously there are a few problems here and there with a few 7900GTX's just like there are minor problems with the X1900. There isn't any card in history that has had 100% non-failure rate.

I never said otherwise, was simply stating that I have never had any kind of major problem with ATI's drivers.

P.S. With the power consumption the x1900 uses, you mine as well get two AC's in your room to cool you off :|

I little off topic don't you think? Where did power consumption come from? At any rate, yes the X1900 draws a little more but like I said it's also faster, especially in newer games.

[sundayx Veteran]

if it happens, intel nvidia better collaborate

[PyX]

Strange... nVidia did well with AMD.. I mean... nForce4+AMD=good.. anyway

I hope ATI will suck less with AMD, but I can't really imagine two companies doing different things merging together, it might take years or months before they can actually do something valuable... like Adobe and Macromedia, they did the same software, so it was easy to merge, but Video cards a& Processors... at least one of the two can go in the other one :p

Oh and I hope AMD will have better prices... I remember when Intel had processors twice the price of the AMDs, but now it's very similar..

It'd be nice for AMD if Intel did processors for apple only because "they felt prisoner before and now they can unleash the power" I might buy one intel and one AMD then but these things only happen in my dreams

[jerry]

P.S. With the power consumption the x1900 uses, you mine as well get two AC's in your room to cool you off :|

Ironic that even then Nvidia seems to have more issues.

PsykX, you remember right. The general combo is Intel+ATI and AMD+Nvidia. (I meant that they seem to collaborate more with each other)

[L3thal Veteran]

Ironic that even then Nvidia seems to have more issues.

Ironic as well that nVidia has nothing to do with these problems, rather the manufacturers of these cards for overclocking them beyond their potential.

Straight from your source -

NVIDIA firmly stands behind their stock core and memory clock specifications for the 7900 series and tell us that they are not seeing any unusual problems with 7900 series video cards that are not overclocked.

[jerry]

Ironic as well that nVidia has nothing to do with these problems, rather the manufacturers of these cards for overclocking them beyond their potential.

Straight from your source -

I know but they're still well Nvidia cards! :rofl: People who had such an experience will probably look somewhere else and they might recommend others to do the same.

The point of not being a power-hungry goes out of the window if you dont execute it well, like evident above.

[L3thal Veteran]

Yes, they're nVidia cards, but its not nVidia themselves the culprits for the malfunctions. Obviously ATI doesn't have this problem because they don't have various card manufacturers building their high end cards. If that were the case, I am sure ATI would face the same issues; it goes both ways.

[jerry]

Yes, they're nVidia cards, but its not nVidia themselves the culprits for the malfunctions. Obviously ATI doesn't have this problem because they don't have various card manufacturers building their high end cards. If that were the case, I am sure ATI would face the same issues; it goes both ways.

The problem is not because ATI doesnt have 'various card manufacturers' ( :rofl: )but because of not good enough policies, quality testing and assurance in place.

[L3thal Veteran]

Quality testing? Apparently, nVidia has good enough testing, judging by their low failure rate of stock cards. What manufacturers do to nVidia produced chips is beyond their control. Though I do agree that policies should be set forth to control these OC'ed cards, these manufacturers are taking it overboard, considering eVGA and XFX are the ones having issues and not BFG, which overclocks as well, but not to the degree that the former two have with the 7900 series. They (XFX, eVGA) should stop trying to beat out BFG Tech with bigger overclocks to gain customers, which they have and look what is happening.

[jerry]

Quality testing? Apparently, nVidia has good enough testing, judging by their low failure rate of stock cards.

Apparently not, especially after this development.

NVIDIA has taken some of the responsibility as they have not worked closely enough with the board builders in explaining how overclocking domains have changed on the 7900 series, and that they would be correcting that. Still overall, the problems lay at the feet of the people that “made” your video card. Interestingly enough, as of writing this, no matter who you got your 7900 series card from, they were still all built by Flextronics in China with the exception of a few VIVO models from XFX, so most of the cards in question are being built to NVIDIA’s demanding specification.

[L3thal Veteran]

Still overall, the problems lay at the feet of the people that ?made? your video card.

Exactly what I have been saying for the past three po:rolleyes:yes:

[jerry]

Exactly what I have been saying for the past three posts :rolleyes:

Yes but Nvidia accepts responsibility and in the end they get a bad name; what I've been saying since ..

My point in-a-nutshell was that the advantage of not being a power-hungry is moot if you dont execute it well.

[L3thal Veteran]

Point(s) taken.

Now back to the rumors of an AMD-ATI merger :p

[viciv]

Point(s) taken.

Now back to the rumors of an AMD-ATI merger :p

it's way off topic :rofl: