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hyrichter
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Just saw this headline on google and was rather umm, surprised? Looks like AMD is buying ATI for about $5.4 billion. Here's the article:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/15109769.htm

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Chris Franklin
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Posted: 24th Jul 2006 17:57
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That means i'll be running a pure amd pc when i get my new pc

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Seppuku Arts
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Quote: "That means i'll be running a pure amd pc when i get my new pc
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Then you yell 'bollocks' when you realise your ram is a kingston...

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Oddmind
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Posted: 24th Jul 2006 20:43
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haha that means im running on pure AMD righ no... ah crap no im not...

MoBo is asus and ram is some other company.

plus AMD doeant make HDD's or Cd roms....

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 24th Jul 2006 21:30
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Cant see why they shouldn't... They've out-done Intel in a very short period. If they can turn ATI around to whoop nVidia then I cant see why they shouldn't go for Mobo, HDD amd CD/DVDROM.

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Oddmind
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Posted: 24th Jul 2006 21:51
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they make mobos alredy. not too good from what ive heard. Ill stick with meh asus for now.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 24th Jul 2006 22:19
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What's going on with the Wii graphics chip, then?


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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Jeku
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Posted: 24th Jul 2006 22:36
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Nothing-- why would that change? They're not closing ATI down or anything


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Oddmind
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Posted: 24th Jul 2006 23:07
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the new consoles have PPC processors right? I have heard this.

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why would ATI sell?

quick, dump your stocks!

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Posted: 25th Jul 2006 01:05 Edited at: 25th Jul 2006 01:05
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NVIDIA + INTEL ALL THE WAY....THE AMERICAN WAY!
(dont ask...dont tell...dont think)


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UnderLord
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Quote: "NVIDIA + INTEL ALL THE WAY....THE AMERICAN WAY!
(dont ask...dont tell...dont think)"


Ummm I'm American, and I don't use intel....I use AMD + Nvidia = PURE PWNAGE on a intergalactic scale...

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hyrichter
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For the record, I'm American, and I'm using an AMD CPU and an ATI graphics card. I think by Intel and NVidia, you meant "The American whey"

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Pulsar Coder
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Quote: "why would ATI sell?

quick, dump your stocks!"


Actually, ATI's stock quotes went up almost 18.8%. AMD's stock quotes were the ones that went down after the news ...

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thats even funnier

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Matt Rock
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I'm American and I use Intel, but not because I'm trying to be patriotic or anything.

What about your sound card? Does AMD/ ATI make sound cards? I know AMD has on-board audio, but I doubt many (if any) people on TGC have on-board audio, and I'm pretty sure that if they do, it isn't intentional


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Posted: 25th Jul 2006 07:02
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Quote: "why would ATI sell?

quick, dump your stocks!"


With open arms. http://www.ati.com/

IMO both companies are gonna benefit from this.

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Agent Dink
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Now this is pretty cool to hear. I wonder how its all gonna turn out! I love AMD, so hopefully I'll love ATI after this too.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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I have on-board audio. Why? I use headphones and wouldn't benefit from wasting $20 on a sound card.


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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Dark Eternity
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Posted: 25th Jul 2006 19:57
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actually intel cpus have problems with nvidia graphic cards, besides intel is terrible i actually spent more for a laptop that had a weeker cpu then another one that was intel just so i could have amd 64bit

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AMD graphics cards? Could life be anymore sweet? Ati CPU's,

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Matt Rock
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Posted: 26th Jul 2006 21:32
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Quote: "I have on-board audio. Why? I use headphones and wouldn't benefit from wasting $20 on a sound card."

I didn't think of the headphone users. I like my soundcard, a Creative SB Audigy LS. BF42 sounds beautiful in 5.1 surround It was about $50 at the time of purchase, pretty nifty. I have a friend who spent something rediculous like $150 on her soundcard... insane. How much better can it possibly sound lol.


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Dark Eternity
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you can get surround sound headphones if you wanna spend $20 on a sound card, intergrated just kills it...

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Sid Sinister
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AMD and ATI, a perfect match if you ask me. This makes me very happy.
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My sound card is a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS 7.1 surround sound, and I use 7.1 speakers.


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ionstream
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I'm using AMD and nVidia, so I don't know what the deal is there .

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um.. my onboard sound has 7.1, which i am perfectly happy with.

i like both ati and amd so am plaesed to hear about this development.

AMD came first with the home market 64bit processing, and ATI are still the only graphics chips to support full screen anti aliasing and HDR lighting at the same time. pwnt nvidia users

amd and ati, at least until recently both seemed to offer better value for money than their competetors, which is the main reason i'm with both of them. (ati were also faster out with vista drivers, still aren't any for nvidia on their website.) although i must admit my asrock mobo is an nvidia chipset with onboard nvidia graphics (that work very well for onboard graphics)

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