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    11/18/09

    In reply to ATI Radeon HD 5970: The World's Fastest Graphics Card
    I came.
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    11/18/09

    In reply to ATI Radeon HD 5970: The World's Fastest Graphics Card
    Forget gaming... can it bitstream 7.1 lossless audio?
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    Image of Odin Odin
    11/18/09

    In reply to ATI Radeon HD 5970: The World's Fastest Graphics Card
    DX11? Christ, we're barely moving on to DX10 as it is. Most games are still DX9 compatible.

    I'm still looking for a reasonable graphics card for my new rig. Something powerful enough to be viable right away and with enough staying power that I won't have to replace it for a while... and something £200 or less.

    Yeeeeah I'm asking a lot there aren't I? #atiradeonhd5970
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    11/18/09

    @Odin: you could get a 4870 or 5870 or something in between #atiradeonhd5970
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    Image of Odin Odin
    11/18/09

    @yuriythebest3:
    I was thinking a GTXsomething or other. I generally lean towards nVidia cards.
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    Image of Kirkaiya Kirkaiya
    11/18/09

    @Odin: If you like ATI, you could pick up a Radeon HD 4890 for quite a bit less, and it's the fastest card ATI made from it's last-generation line (the 4800 series). Alternatively, check on prices for the HD 5850 cards.

    I'm not sure about NVidia's line - check TomsHardware.
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    11/18/09

    @Odin: Take a look at the 5770 or 5750. I just picked up a 5770 for $170. At current exchange rates, you could get two 5770's for £200. I've also been an Nvidia user forever, but the reviews of the Radeon 5000's are hard to ignore.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/18/09

    In reply to ATI Radeon HD 5970: The World's Fastest Graphics Card
    That costs more than my entire computer..
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    11/18/09

    In reply to ATI Radeon HD 5970: The World's Fastest Graphics Card
    Wait.. That's no moon... #atiradeonhd5970
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    11/18/09

    In reply to ATI Radeon HD 5970: The World's Fastest Graphics Card

    yeah but it probably takes #atiradeonhd5970
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    Image of Kirkaiya Kirkaiya
    11/18/09

    In reply to ATI Radeon HD 5970: The World's Fastest Graphics Card
    NVidia's upcoming Fermi-based cards had better be some seriously bad-assed hardware if they don't want their clocks cleaned for the next year.

    Granted, this is basically two 5870 cards in crossfire, but glued to one board - but the rendering power of the gods in a single pci-x slot? Priceless (okay, actually $600, but still). Meanwhile my HD 4870 seems so... retro :-( #atiradeonhd5970
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/18/09

    @Kirkaiya: Don't forget the fact that you can Crossfire the beast too, so you could have, in essence, four 5870s in Crossfire.
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    11/18/09

    In reply to ATI Radeon HD 5970: The World's Fastest Graphics Card
    Sweet. Nvidia, time to show your cards plz. #atiradeonhd5970
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    Image of Kirkaiya Kirkaiya
    11/15/09

    In reply to AMD Phenom II Breaks 7GHz Barrier
    While impressive from an engineering point of view (and a sheer "how badass can we get?" POV), the fact that they needed to use liquid helium to run the cpu at 7 GHz is more proof that we're heading for a massively multicore future - at least until another set of materials to replace silicon and aluminium gets in widespread use and which can run faster without getting hotter. I think we'll see 80-core x86 chips first, though.

    And daqman - I can sympathize! I worked in a plasma physics lab in college, and we used a lot of liquid nitrogen and helium both, and while liquid nitrogen was fun (a colleague froze a slug at one point, and I took a thermos back to a party to pour into a punch-bowl, etc), the liquid helium was tough to work with. Not to mention time-consuming, since filling a dewar meant a *massive* amount of super-cold "fog" coming out of that flexible metal pipe from the big tank, and then air was always freezing onto the rim of the dewar (and I got some pink skin a few times, but never actual frostbite, doh!)
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    Image of Ninety-9 Ninety-9
    11/17/09

    @Kirkaiya: Just remember, it took the same kind of extreme cooling to achieve 1GHz, at one point in time. #amd7ghz
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    Image of Kirkaiya Kirkaiya
    11/18/09

    @Ninety-9: True - and I'm not saying we'll *never* see 7 GHz speeds in consumer CPUs. But my high-end notebook in 2004 had a 1.8 GHz CPU, and in 2009, high-end notebooks still are in the 2.0 - 2.5 GHz range. Five years later. So we're not seeing the dramatic increases in clock-speeds we did from the 90 MHz chips up to the 2 GHz ones (that's a 22-fold increase in 10 years, vs maybe 20% increase over the next five years). Desktop CPUs have followed similar trends (drastic increase in clock speeds from 1995 - 2005, then modest speed bumps, with proliferating cores).

    So unless there's a materials-science breakthrough, I doubt we'll see 7 GHz before 2015, if then (more likely we'll see 16-core and 32-core CPUs then instead). #amd7ghz
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    11/14/09

    In reply to AMD Phenom II Breaks 7GHz Barrier
    EEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKK!!! How did the spammers find this site? Eeek, kill it, kill it! #amd7ghz
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    11/15/09

    @Software_Goddess: Working on it, working on it... #amd7ghz
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    11/15/09

    @Rosa Golijan: Oh thank the maker. Can I get down off this chair now? #amd7ghz
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    11/15/09

    @Software_Goddess: Yes, ma'am. Let me know if the vermin returns. #amd7ghz
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    11/13/09

    In reply to AMD Phenom II Breaks 7GHz Barrier
    Leave to an ad campaign to make nerds and very boring things look really cool. :P #amd7ghz
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    11/13/09

    In reply to AMD Phenom II Breaks 7GHz Barrier
    You see, this is why my heart belongs to AMD.

    <3 #amd7ghz
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    11/13/09

    @Software_Goddess: Mine too, and I've never looked back. #amd7ghz
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    11/14/09

    @Software_Goddess: I've been solidly in the AMD camp for many, many years myself. I've never been anti-Intel, but I always appreciated lower-cost alternatives who tried harder to innovate. I even used to build my own systems with Cyrix processors, back in the day. #amd7ghz
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    11/13/09

    In reply to AMD Phenom II Breaks 7GHz Barrier
    So that's where the liquid helium for the LHC went! #amd7ghz
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    11/14/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee: Apparently, but will a random bird also destroy this treasure with bread? #amd7ghz
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    11/14/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee: Yes! And they could have reached 8 GHz but i hear that a bird dropped some bread on there system to. #amd7ghz
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    11/12/09

    In reply to AMD's Atom-Mauling Bobcat and High-End Bulldozer Chips
    Awesome! I love AMD. I’m glad to see they are back in the running. #processors
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Intel Pays AMD $1.25 Billion To End Antitrust, Patent Wars
    I like how billion is in italics, like it is a lot of money

    /smokes cigar made from hundred dollar bills and Megan Foxes pubes. #intelantitrust
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