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Brien
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Aug 30, 2010, 10:39 AM
 
The brand, that is. AMD is going to use the its branding from now on, so get ready for those AMD Radeons.
     
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Aug 30, 2010, 11:05 AM
 
I'm surprised it took so long.
     
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Aug 30, 2010, 11:34 AM
 
Makes perfect sense given where the semiconductor market is moving.
The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
     
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Aug 30, 2010, 12:00 PM
 
That sucks. I saw a videogame at a bar this weekend, and it flashed a 3DFX logo. Immediatly I felt nostalgic. I loved 3dFX and GLIDE.
     
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Aug 30, 2010, 12:02 PM
 
AMD Radeon.. fine by me. I never thought they'd use the ATi brand indefinitely.
I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
     
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Aug 30, 2010, 12:05 PM
 
anandtech has a comprehensive article about it today. Farewell to ATI, AMD to Retire the ATI Brand Later this Year - AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News

I'm looking forward to their Fusion APU to see what it offers.
     
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Aug 30, 2010, 05:55 PM
 
I guess we might see AMD Macs then Just not in that way...
     
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Aug 30, 2010, 08:32 PM
 
I once played a videogame
Emergency Medicine & Urgent Care.
     
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Aug 30, 2010, 08:53 PM
 
With a fast CPU, 3dfx Glide in the Voodoo3 3000 and Unreal Tournament and even with OpenGL and Quake III was totally awesome.

The ATI Rage 128 Pro that came after, supposedly a superior card, still couldn't compete for basic smoothness.

In any case I'm sad to see that Canadian brand finally die out. Well, I suppose there's still Matrox.
     
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Aug 30, 2010, 11:24 PM
 
Originally Posted by Eug View Post
With a fast CPU, 3dfx Glide in the Voodoo3 3000 and Unreal Tournament and even with OpenGL and Quake III was totally awesome.

The ATI Rage 128 Pro that came after, supposedly a superior card, still couldn't compete for basic smoothness.

In any case I'm sad to see that Canadian brand finally die out. Well, I suppose there's still Matrox.
Totally. My original frankeniMac had the Voodoo2 gamewizard card, and it ran pretty decent when it was still only 333mhz. When I installed the 600mhz Harmoni... WEEEEEE!!!!!
     
   
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