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AMD is not amused
« on: June 27, 2013, 12:48:05 am »
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Relax AMD.

Even if your products aren't always the best, at least you let me pay 200 bucks less for the same thing.

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Re: AMD is not amused
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2013, 12:53:57 am »
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That one nerd in that video is totally doable.
1H stab is the fastest, strongest and longest 1H animation. There's no reason NOT to use it in all instances. I don't know if it's OP, but it's boring. 1H used to be fun because you had a fast (left), long (right) and the most devastating attack (stab) and had to choose the best attack for each occasion.

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Re: AMD is not amused
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2013, 01:27:51 am »
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 :lol: this is why I´m an AMD fanboy.
Maybe it woud be better for me to find out where you life and kill you when you are satch a Soziopath. You have enough now.
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Re: AMD is not amused
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2013, 03:34:23 am »
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After all the driver problems I've had with AMD in the past I'll always be buying nVidia cards.

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Re: AMD is not amused
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2013, 03:41:32 am »
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This type of "advertising" is just cheap and offensive.
entertaining though, I must say  :)

Not that I really care to defend multinational companies, they don't deserve that but still.
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Re: AMD is not amused
« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2013, 09:21:19 am »
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This is an advert not saying that their product is good, just that they think they are better than the competion, useless as fuck, 0/10 wouldn't convince me to switch to AMD.
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Re: AMD is not amused
« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2013, 10:38:25 am »
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allways had amd, nvidegay always overpriced as fuck.
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Re: AMD is not amused
« Reply #7 on: June 27, 2013, 07:34:42 pm »
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there are times and tiers when nvidia is cheaper than ati

but the main reason why my ait was not worth the savings is ITS FUCKING WAY TOO LOUD!!

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Re: AMD is not amused
« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2013, 09:10:25 pm »
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I've been thinking about Nvdia for PhysX tbh but my HD6870 is still way too good to be replaced. Not to mention my cpu and hdd are the bottlenecks in my rig anyway.
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Re: AMD is not amused
« Reply #9 on: June 27, 2013, 10:02:30 pm »
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Went with nvidia for years and always had issues. Switched to AMD and never looking back. Computer has never run so smoothly  :)

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Re: AMD is not amused
« Reply #10 on: June 27, 2013, 10:22:27 pm »
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AMD basically offers like 90-95% of the power of comparable Nvidia cards(More in some games)for a lot less money.Plus they always have a mid-tier card that´s very cheap(Around 100-150 euros)and very powerful for it´s price, which is the main reason I love their cards so much.I dont want to buy a card for 400 or 500 euros, I want to buy one for 150 and still be able to play modern games on high settings.
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Re: AMD is not amused
« Reply #11 on: June 27, 2013, 11:11:42 pm »
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Currently, only Radeon 7970 and 7950 are cheap compared to nVidia. Other cards offer similar performance for same amount of money.

I'm long time AMD/ATI Radeon user, and I'm planning to stop buying their products. Why? Because their drivers for everything that isn't DirectX related are pure crap and I have the need for certain OpenGL applications.

AMD hardware is great but software support is seriously lacking.

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Re: AMD is not amused
« Reply #12 on: June 27, 2013, 11:53:01 pm »
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AMD did eat a large chunk of the market with the dirty cheap 4800 series and their graphics-centric architecture some years ago (while Nvidia was busy making the best supercomputers). As modern games hardly require more than a good GC from that period to run, that generation is still quite relevant. More recently they sort of inverted the roles with Nvidia's Kepler architecture being much better for gaming.

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Re: AMD is not amused
« Reply #13 on: June 28, 2013, 12:26:36 am »
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Had a 4890, really nice card (still working :)).

Never had any problems of any kind with it (afaik, nothing major / game breaking).
It was just loud and hot.

Switched to Nvidia recently, physx was an incentive (although you can get limited physx with an AMD card).
Mainly I was just looking to build an ultimate rig to tide me over for the next couple of years +.
(Pretty much everything in the old rig was outdated, I would have Xfired if I could)

Nvidia got their next gen of cards out first *shrugs*.

Also I didn't fancy getting a couple of years in to find I couldn't have a decent dual gpu configuration.
(Current AMD cards seem to have problem with microstuttering in Multi-GPU configs)

Though Nvidia's drivers suck atm. (Crashed 3 times personally within 10 hours of starting it up)
Just google 320.18 WHQL and you'll see why. Hopefully they will be better in the long term.

Not sure which company is better / worse. With AMD backing the next gen of consoles + games, AMD wouldn't be a bad choice. I just couldn't (wouldn't ;) ) wait till ~November.

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Re: AMD is not amused
« Reply #14 on: June 28, 2013, 01:28:19 am »
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Software that matters to me and doesn't work well on AMD: Limit Theory, Outtera, SpaceEngine, Planet Explorers, Linux games, ... pretty much anything that either runs on a GPU or uses OpenGL as API.

Software that matters to me and will work better on nVidia: Star Citizen, Witcher 3, possibly M:BG.

Sofware that doesn't mean anything to me and will probably work better on AMD: most console ports (including most AAA games from big studios).

I was interested in new game from Avalanche Studios, expecting something truly epic sandbox like Just Cause 2 but it seems they are making Mad Max game. I hope it will be sandbox but you never know with games based on movies.

AMD can satify the need of an average gamer very well, but same goes for next gen consoles (many games will run in 1080p with 60 fps which is enough for almost everyone). But if you want to play something really innovative, something that will become mainstream in years from now you have to stick with nVidia.