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Old 10-26-08   #21 (permalink)
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ehh at that it'd still be one hell of an upgrade over my 78GT!

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AMD/ATI really needs to work on their product launch quality control. The K10 launch has TLB errata problems, and now the 4830 has the wrong bios. It might not be a big problem in this case, but it still makes the product look bad.
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AMD/ATI really needs to work on their product launch quality control. The K10 launch has TLB errata problems, and now the 4830 has the wrong bios. It might not be a big problem in this case, but it still makes the product look bad.
At the end of the day, i'd rather a company admitted that these flaws were there than try to cover it up.

Goodness knows how many bugs some products have that are never publically announced.

Im personally thankful that, both with the TLB erratum and the SP Mixup, AMD has openly admitted the mistake and taken some measure to fix it.


And also, the only cards affected were ATI reference review samples. Sub vendors usually flash on their own BIOS's so it shouldnt affect end users at all.

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Oh no! I guess I'll hafta spend $20 more for a 4850!
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Oh no! I guess I'll hafta spend $20 more for a 4850!
Or just use the bios fix
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<3 ATI. Atleast they admit when they screw up and offer a way to fix it.


AMD/ATI: We care about the customer, because after all, they fund all this crap.
And customers right now are the only thing keeping their heads above the water.
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I don't think it was that. Early PR leaks always said 640.

And also- they cut SPs to 640 not 560, right?
Maybe they were at 560, but AMD thought "Why not 640, everyone's saying that..."
lol, probably not, but still, maybe a really early beta style thing?
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So they released the cards anyway even though they knew
Uh, no. Considering only <400 cards have this problem, it's likely they DIDN'T know.
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wait a second... wonder if the rest of the shaders that make up the 800 from the 4850 are also bios unlockable?
No. I would think they have less SPs natively to fit more chips on a wafer to reduce manufacturing costs, or the additional SPs are just physically disabled (possibly 48xx series GPUs that didn't pass QC?)
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And customers right now are the only thing keeping their heads above the water.
Dumbest comment on the forum. Customers are the only thing keeping Nvidia above as well. Customers are the only thing that can. Long cat is long.
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