dham

I saw the apology comment, but even if this was true who gives a ****. I think it would be cool just crossfiring a 5870 and a 4890 or my 4670.

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lordikon

This is pretty much the same news that was out a few days ago.

I decided months ago to buy ATi for my next card(s) due to the way nvidia has been doing business, but if they prevent something like Hydra from happening, I'll never touch a product of theirs again. They would actually be purposely lower framerates for the entire gaming industry, including people using nvidia cards.

Should be illegal.

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JKBenchmarks

You'd be surprised how much money Nvidia would get if they allowed their GPU's to work with ATI cards. PhysX would be adopted more by developers.

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saulin

No company looks out for their customers. They look out for themselves. Sure companies may say pretty words in front of a crowd but yeah they will always go for what is best for the company.

However there are companies that reward their customer very well by supporting the product they sell. Good product support is a must.

So what will happen when Nvidia starts thinking about making CPUs? Will AMD and Intel allow it? I don't think so. Not without a fight.

I have to say that it's sad how no one gets along lately though. Nvidia suing Intel, Intel suing AMD. AMD bad mouthing Nvidia all the time. Even hardware reviewers may be picking sides these days.

Thanks to ATI PhysX is growing very slowly. ATI just doesn't want to support it. And developers don't just want to pick sides either.

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JKBenchmarks

ATI can't support it. They weren't offered by Nvidia to support it.

They want GPU Havok to replace PhysX, and every GPU could run GPU Havok.

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mr.derp

And pigs would finally be able to fly! GREEDY DIRTY CORPORATE AHOLES!

sLowEnd

AMD has no say in Nvidia making CPU's. (They do not own x86)
Only Intel does and so far they've said no. (Hence Nvidia's movement towards GPGPU stuff)

Thanks to Nvidia, game physics are growing slower because they want companies such as AMD to adhere to their own proprietary standard instead of an open standard (OpenCL.), despite the fact that no one loses with an open standard.

What is wrong with an open standard? Absolutely nothing.

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Grim

Wow.

I wonder if we all realize what this technology could have potentially been!

This is EXACTLY The sort of thing that Intel would do.
Its true. Thats why I didnt like them over the years. Those who have been into PCs for a long time will attest to the similarity of underhanded tactic.
Still dont like their BUSINESS ethics. For which, I would default to AMD.
That being said - I cant wait to finally own a C2D (great chips! ).

This would be soo soo awsome.

Imagine support for "legacy" cards.
Where the guy with 5 PCI slots, could use 5 FX5200's to get himself running Call of Duty..

sigh.

Perry

Good on Nvidia if the block this. They need to watch their bottom line more than ever since Intel isn't licensing new chipsets.

I don't like it but good on them.

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Hueristic

GUYS! This is from the exact same article from Semi-Accurate.

REPOST sorta

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