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Things to do todayThings to do todayPosted Sep 6, 2007 5:28 UTC (Thu) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803)In reply to: Things to do today by bojan Parent article: AMD to open up graphics specs
Absolutely. I have been looking forward to my next big box next year -- probably a quad core Intel, hindered by a GMA X3000 or something graphics.
Now, assuming AMD follows through, it will likely be a quad-core Athlon64 with a high end ATI card.
I hope AMD folks are reading this. Way to go! :-)
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Things to do today Posted Sep 6, 2007 8:56 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] Lets hope the specifications include ATI-based motherboards.
The only peice of hardware more poorly supported then ATI graphics cards are ATI (and nvidia) motherboards. Intel still has a massive leg up on AMD in this department (which is sad because AMD-based boards have had excellent AMD to Linux support backing them up)
Even if the graphical stuff gets fixed then those motherboards are still going to be a huge weak link in AMD's hardware line-up.
Of course that leaves running AMD video cards on Intel hardware, which should still be very nice.
If AMD opens up the ATI motherboard chipsets also then probably what will happen is that AMD stuff will be ideal for high performance desktops and workstations while Intel stuff would be ideal for mobile devices.
Things to do today Posted Sep 7, 2007 22:04 UTC (Fri) by AWJ (guest, #47173) [Link] Err, what isn't supported, exactly? Now that AGP is dead and buried, there isn't really much left in a chipset that needs specific driver support. SATA and onboard audio are standardized now (AHCI and Intel HDA respectively)
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