amd and ati

[Lord Of The Ming]

Interesting note, but arn't all of AMD's MOBO's made by nVidia? this might cause some friction, since AMD will become nVidia's only competetor in the graphics card industry... If anything, AMD should have bought nVidia, so they would get their mobos cheaper...

 

[StrangleHold]

Interesting note, but arn't all of AMD's MOBO's made by nVidia? this might cause some friction, since AMD will become nVidia's only competetor in the graphics card industry... If anything, AMD should have bought nVidia, so they would get their mobos cheaper...

Nvidia make chipsets and GPUs. Other makers make the boards-Asus- Gygabyte-MSI-DFI and so on! Plus ATI-SIS-VIA-Nvidia all make chipsetsets for AMD processors

 

[Jet]

Yes, but the vast majority of the chipsets are Nvidia, as also the highest quality. Both Sis and Via are lower end and more "compact" pc chipset makers, while Nvidia has held the high end for quite some time.

 

[SirKenin]

I can't believe anybody would even view SiS and Via as contenders. Both of them completely suck. nVIDIA has offered the only decent solution for AMD since AMD stopped making their AMD 760.

 

[StrangleHold]

I can't believe anybody would even view SiS and Via as contenders. Both of them completely suck. nVIDIA has offered the only decent solution for AMD since AMD stopped making their AMD 760.

Yea I am stumped that SIS is still even around and I know VIA has took a big hit from Nvidia

 

[daygowop]

A lot of the speculation on why these two companies merged, is that fact they most likely will start pushing integrated cpu/gpu chips. This would eliminate the need for a seperate video card, give it access to more ram, but also in my opinion restrict upgradability. I think it was a pretty good move, Intel is so powerful, ATI needed some help since they are bankrupt, it is either a brilliant move by AMD or a company ending one. We shall see.

I have never heard of integrated cpu/gpu chips, but that sounds awesome and would be a huge improvement on the mobo. have they actually produced any of these cpu/gpu chips? or r they still working on them?

 

[bball4life]

I have never heard of integrated cpu/gpu chips, but that sounds awesome and would be a huge improvement on the mobo. have they actually produced any of these cpu/gpu chips? or r they still working on them?

I am sure that some company somewhere has prototypes of these somewhere. But this is the way that most people think that the industry will go, so it was just AMD preparing for the future. I mean a great possiblity would be a quad core cpu, 2 cores being the actual cpu and 2 cores being the gpu. Personally though I hate this idea. You would be stuck with very limited options on everything, and imagine the heat coming out of one of those things, it would be incredibly hot. What I think would be awesome is to make the regular motherboards like server motherboards with 2 sockets and 8 plus slots for RAM. This way you could have a cpu and a gpu slot, along with 4 slots for ddr RAM, probably more like ddr3 by then and then have another 4 slots for Gddr Ram. Would increase customization of computer components even more compared to the other way which would decrease it.

 

[daygowop]

yea i see what u mean, maybe the cpu/gpu chip would not be for us computer savy people. who knows what will really happen, im looking forward to it.

 

[Bobo]

I can't believe anybody would even view SiS and Via as contenders. Both of them completely suck. nVIDIA has offered the only decent solution for AMD since AMD stopped making their AMD 760.

Yeah, I am going to miss Nvidia chipets. But oh well, AMD will come out with something better.

I really don't care either way....