Nvidia renames old stuff again

[energyman]

renaming, a game for the whole family. So much fun to rip off costumers:

http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/08/...2xx-parts-3xx/

[deanjo]

Originally Posted by energyman

renaming, a game for the whole family. So much fun to rip off costumers:

http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/08/...2xx-parts-3xx/

At least they will work fully featured in linux upon launch.

Besides these cards at least add 10.1 support. Same thing ATI did when they renamed the Radeon 2xxx series to the Radeon 3xxx series.

[kernelOfTruth]

that's one of the reasons why I stopped buying nvidia cards:

they're not honest to their customers

and guess how they do energy-savings / energy efficient cards ?
they down-clock cards and sell them as green editions; adaptive up- and/or down-clocking on non-green cards often is broken or simply not implemented

the only "joker" they're having right now is still their somewhat better binary blob but that will change soon

I'm glad I bought and ATI/AMD card earlier this year

[deanjo]

Originally Posted by kernelOfTruth

and guess how they do energy-savings / energy efficient cards ?
they down-clock cards and sell them as green editions; adaptive up- and/or down-clocking on non-green cards often is broken or simply not implemented

Actually they do better then their ATI brethren at least until running in full bore premium performance mode. ATI's cards have been brutal on non premium modes for power consumption.

[energyman]

Originally Posted by deanjo

At least they will work fully featured in linux upon launch.
.

but for how long until the bumps break and the chips fall off?

[deanjo]

Originally Posted by energyman

but for how lung until the bumps break and the chips fall off?

Those chips are not even the same series.

Back to power consumption:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...0,2262-13.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...e,2364-17.html

[energyman]

ugh - tomshardware...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/vid...0_6.html#sect0

and nvidia's insurer - as DM - claim, that not only integrated parts are defective - desktop parts just go on a bit longer.

[Michael]

Originally Posted by energyman

renaming, a game for the whole family. So much fun to rip off costumers:

http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/08/...2xx-parts-3xx/

Wow, SemiAccurate finally rolled around... I saw that site back in January of 2008.

[energyman]

they have some nice stuff there Michael - without cutting into your benchmarking business

some more on bumpgate, Nvidia's g300 and when it will maybe become reality. TSMC+40nm. Why is it so hard to get a HD4770 ....

The Magny Courts article posted a view days ago was the best I have seen so far.

[benmoran]

Maybe this explains whey those two ex-AMD bigwigs were hired recently