Gigabyte, others to produce ATI cards in favor of nVidia/Info on the R300
Gigabyte, Hercules, and others have now opted to stop producing nVidia GeForce 3 graphics cards, in favor of producing ATI cards (Radeon 8500). This move is apparently in response to some problems they were having with nVidia and the fact that ATI has restructured their business practices.
I'm thinking this could be good news for us Mac users. Why? It would basically give us the same situation that we have in flashing GeForce cards to work on our Macs. However, I also realize that with future ATI cards that come to the PC it wouldn't work because the cards wouldn't be compatible for some time. One thing is we will be able to get the 8500 cheaper and at higher clock speeds.
Details are coming out about ATI next-generation graphics,the R300. This new GPU is dubbed "NV25 killer" and will be DirectX 9 compatible. Reports say ATI will release the R300 at CEBIT which is in March.
Hmmm, the Radeon 8500 Mac Edition is going to ship in Febuary. If these reports are in fact true that means a month after the Mac gets the 8500, ATI will unveil its next generation Radeon product. That would really suck.
I'm thinking this could be good news for us Mac users. Why? It would basically give us the same situation that we have in flashing GeForce cards to work on our Macs. However, I also realize that with future ATI cards that come to the PC it wouldn't work because the cards wouldn't be compatible for some time. One thing is we will be able to get the 8500 cheaper and at higher clock speeds.
Details are coming out about ATI next-generation graphics,the R300. This new GPU is dubbed "NV25 killer" and will be DirectX 9 compatible. Reports say ATI will release the R300 at CEBIT which is in March.
Hmmm, the Radeon 8500 Mac Edition is going to ship in Febuary. If these reports are in fact true that means a month after the Mac gets the 8500, ATI will unveil its next generation Radeon product. That would really suck.
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<strong>Gigabyte, Hercules, and others have now opted to stop producing nVidia GeForce 3 graphics cards, in favor of producing ATI cards (Radeon 8500). This move is apparently in response to some problems they were having with nVidia and the fact that ATI has restructured their business practices.
I'm thinking this could be good news for us Mac users. Why? It would basically give us the same situation that we have in flashing GeForce cards to work on our Macs. However, I also realize that with future ATI cards that come to the PC it wouldn't work because the cards wouldn't be compatible for some time. One thing is we will be able to get the 8500 cheaper and at higher clock speeds.
Details are coming out about ATI next-generation graphics,the R300. This new GPU is dubbed "NV25 killer" and will be DirectX 9 compatible. Reports say ATI will release the R300 at CEBIT which is in March.
Hmmm, the Radeon 8500 Mac Edition is going to ship in Febuary. If these reports are in fact true that means a month after the Mac gets the 8500, ATI will unveil its next generation Radeon product. That would really suck.</strong><hr></blockquote>
You speak of this like a fact. Why is it gaurenteed that we'll be able to flash these cards when we currently cannot flash a PC Radeon card. I mean maybe we will be able to (it'd be nice if we can) but unless there's something I'm missing there's nothing saying we will be able to (like the Radeon). <img src="confused.gif" border="0">