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> I'm pleased to say that I have no idea how fast my CPU or GPU are. They work. I'll buy a new one in a few years. Relax and do something useful with your compu

> I'm pleased to say that I have no idea how fast my CPU or GPU are. They work. I'll buy a new one in a few years. Relax and do something useful with your computer. Then you're entirely missing the point of this article and of the product it writes about. This class of video card (Radeon 7970, or Geforce GTX 680) cost $500-$600 each. They cater to those who want the absolute best GPU performance they can get -- and are willing to pay heavily for it. Your quoted comment characterizes how you don't at all understand the target market of these cards. "I'm pleased to say that I have no idea how fast my CPU or GPU are" is the last thing you'd ever hear from an owner of this class of video card.

tylerritchie 14y ago
>... is the last thing you'd ever hear from an owner of this class of video card. No it's not. The original statement is exactly how I feel. And how most people who I know who are gamers feel. When I was 10 years younger I cared much more about all of that. But now all my gear is fast enough right now. I have a quad-core phenom running somewhere between 2.5 and 4 Ghz, 8 gigs of ram and a radeon 6990 (bought it shortly after it was released), from ASUS, I think. I could go find out what everything is running at, but I don't really care about any of that because it all works and is fast for everything I throw at it. When that is no longer the case I'll probably toss in another video card and maybe a newer more-cored phenom. The article is garbage. There is some legitimate complaint there, but it's worth a paragraph. AMD should be pushing its partners to release the updated BIOS, but there are reference designs for a reason, and when manufacturers stray from those designs the consumers have certain benefits, and associated risks. One of those risks is that your card won't last as long, one might be that it can't receive updated BIOSes from AMD. A benefit might be increased performance over the reference design due to BIOS modifications that the manufacturer is using...

tylerritchie 14y ago

>... is the last thing you'd ever hear from an owner of this class of video card. No it's not. The original statement is exactly how I feel. And how most people who I know who are gamers feel. When I was 10 years younger I cared much more about all of that. But now all my gear is fast enough right now. I have a quad-core phenom running somewhere between 2.5 and 4 Ghz, 8 gigs of ram and a radeon 6990 (bought it shortly after it was released), from ASUS, I think. I could go find out what everything is running at, but I don't really care about any of that because it all works and is fast for everything I throw at it. When that is no longer the case I'll probably toss in another video card and maybe a newer more-cored phenom. The article is garbage. There is some legitimate complaint there, but it's worth a paragraph. AMD should be pushing its partners to release the updated BIOS, but there are reference designs for a reason, and when manufacturers stray from those designs the consumers have certain benefits, and associated risks. One of those risks is that your card won't last as long, one might be that it can't receive updated BIOSes from AMD. A benefit might be increased performance over the reference design due to BIOS modifications that the manufacturer is using...