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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 45825

According to reports from Forbes, Sony will make use of AMD technology for next generation console (Playstation 4). The source of this Forbes report is former AMD employees.

Sony is working on an as-yet-unannounced new gaming console, former AMD employees say, and the processor designer may play a key role in the ne

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Tom · Elite Member Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 4194

I ain't touching shit from Sony. Piece of shit company that fucks it's customers over and rips them off. Petty company. To offer Premium memberships and on expiration they rip all the free stuff you got. That's just petty but typical of Sony. Now they got ATI/AMD in there, even more reason to stay away. Company notorious for buggy drivers and quick discontinuation of their products. Ya, there's a solid choice. Fuck why not just put some shit Intel video card in there???? Make it as cheap as you can and grab a few more suckers.

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2545

actually, it would be better for them to put intel's sandy or ivy bridge in there instead of AMD's pos cpus.

El_Coyote · Elite Member Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 611

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2545

Tom · Elite Member Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 4194

Never had a problem with ANY Nvidia card I've owned and while drivers come out all the time, I don't jump on every driver. Why? Because everything works all the time. I'm currently running a beta driver and it's never caused me any problems. When I had ATI and even TV tuners, they were all a total pieces of sht. Crash, stutter, control panel that never loads, games that were fucked up, locked up screens you name it. I got so pissed off I replaced the card with a low-mid end nvidia card and POOF no problems what so ever and it even played video's better. Once after 1 year of owning an ATI card, they discontinued the thing and before a few months later the drivers were non-existent. Then ATI had some lame tradeup program and my card that was a year ago $300 only warranted $50 from ATI. Wow, that's amazing. I still have an ancient PCI nvidia card, guess what, I still have drivers and it works perfectly fine even on Vista. ATI is a piece of junk and it's cheap and that's why ATI is using them. Less cost, more money back in return from fools who'll buy their junk. I'm no fool anymore and Sony and their PS4 can go fuck themselves.

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2545

I agree with you Tom, but you are wrong about one thing - ati cards ain't cheap at all. They have pretty much same price tag as nVidia cards because somehow people tend to think that they are actually even better than nVidia. Mainly because review sites use POS games for test, which more or less have sequels that run on the same engine for past 5 years. I mean really, what PC gamer cares about resident evil or tom clancys hawks? And those aren't the games with same ol' engine I had in mind, games like CoD...

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gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2545

Tom · Elite Member Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 4194

As I said, Sony is a POS. They are cutting corners putting second-rate hardware and wait till you see the price. Look at their Vita, another piece of shit and I heard some games take like 2 minutes to load. Wtf, who'd be crazy enough to buy that POS. My android has more power than that POS.

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gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2545

"If money is no object, then get Intel, but if you want to save allot of money for almost the same performance, get AMD. There is nothing wrong with AMD. "

most common misconception these days. You can get a decent (more than decent) Z68 motherboard for less money then the decent AMD mobo costs, I am talking under 100$.

You can get amd 1xxx series 6 cores CPU for the same price intel's SB i5 2500 costs and intel's is the faster one. Only, and I repeat ONLY intel's extreme and highest end CPU's are overpriced and wear the 1000$ mark.

and btw. AMD never had faster CPU than intel. They had "as fast as" or similar for a bit less money but that's it. It might have been faster for some specific things but as far as I can recall, never all around faster Wink

I can recall pretty far back, even back to times of first pentium processor...

"If AMD never existed, you would be paying five times more for a..."

Don't go there. It's hypothetical. If intel never existed AMD would do the same etc. etc. AMD also sold you one and the same CPU under two different names many times over. Did they not lock the CPU cores and multipliers and sell the chips for less money? Then you could (still can since they are still doing it) unlock or back in the old days just pencil over the pins on the bottom of the CPU to get the more expensive version.

AMD is far from "the saint" company. Look at what they are doing now, they are pulling back Phenoms such as P2 955/955BE so they can sell you crappy bulldozer instead. They they F'ed up but they don't care, they are gonna make the people buy their new CPU's whatever it takes.

AMD is doing the same thing intel is, but in GPU market with their ridiculously overpriced 7xxx GPU's because they can, because nVidia has not yet released their new GPU. So don't think that AMD wouldn't do the same in CPU market if they could. It's all just business.
5 years back you could grab AMD CPU that is slightly slower than intel's counter part but 30% cheaper. Show me that kind of CPU from AMD today please. Smile

Average user that will not overclock is better of with some i5 2400 then with any Phenom in that price range, better than with more expensive 6 core or worse yet 8 core CPU's that they managed to screw up because they perform slower than 6 core ones lol