Radeon HD 2900 is Not HD

Crossy · 26 May 2007 at 19:13

http://www.megagames.com/news/html/hardware/radeonhd2900isnothd.shtml

Please delete if repost

Cyber-Mav · 26 May 2007 at 19:27

ouch

wellibob · 26 May 2007 at 19:33

Be nice to hear somethink good about Ati/AMD

LoadsaMoney · 26 May 2007 at 19:36

Oh dear, its getting worse for em.

evilcrowuk · 26 May 2007 at 19:41

Big deal, look at me on the floor crying my eyes out because my CPU may have to work a bit harder when playing HD DVD, which i will never use my PC for.

IceShock · 26 May 2007 at 19:56

evilcrowuk said:
Big deal, look at me on the floor crying my eyes out because my CPU may have to work a bit harder when playing HD DVD, which i will never use my PC for.

agreed

Cyber-Mav · 26 May 2007 at 19:56

evilcrowuk said:
Big deal, look at me on the floor crying my eyes out because my CPU may have to work a bit harder when playing HD DVD, which i will never use my PC for.

LOOOOOOOOL

wellibob · 26 May 2007 at 19:58

Meow

weringo · 26 May 2007 at 20:00

Leave AMD alone and let them try and compete with nVidia is what I say, thats surely whats best for the consumer. A lawsuit against them isn't going help matters.

jaykay · 26 May 2007 at 20:02

I dont really think much people brought the 2900 as a media center or to play hd dvds. Its too power hungry to be viable, so it doesnt really matter much to most 2900 owners.

killer_uk · 26 May 2007 at 20:24

Yeah this was already posted.

HighlandeR · 26 May 2007 at 20:25

weird cos that article then says afterwards it will be enabeled in the drivers in the future....

?

Meh like people say its nothing major...

not when u got a quad core either

Hamoodii · 26 May 2007 at 21:14

evilcrowuk said:
Big deal, look at me on the floor crying my eyes out because my CPU may have to work a bit harder when playing HD DVD, which i will never use my PC for.

very true

eracer2006 · 26 May 2007 at 21:24

the only good thing about ati now is bringing out lots of hyped up tripe which should lower the price of nvidia offerings for now ex-ati fanboys such as me

V F · 26 May 2007 at 21:55

Seriously though, why did they put the HD part in the name then...

It would be like saying for example, its Vista ready but it doesn't work on Vista.

evilcrowuk · 26 May 2007 at 22:02

V F said:
Seriously though, why did they put the HD part in the name then...

It would be like saying for example, its Vista ready but it doesn't work on Vista.

Well lets see now, why did they put HD in the name, maybe the fact that it does work with HD content and this UVD thing has got nothing to do with its ability to run HD.

Boogle · 26 May 2007 at 22:02

V F said:
Seriously though, why did they put the HD part in the name then...

It would be like saying for example, its Vista ready but it doesn't work on Vista.

Because HD is the latest buzzword

Like FX and XP before it.

Ambro · 26 May 2007 at 22:52

So does this card actually have any benefit over the 8800's for playing HD? :confused:

wellibob · 26 May 2007 at 23:12

the ati card is a good card, time will tell how good.

Lonz · 26 May 2007 at 23:17

Can I just ask, what else are you going to be doing on your PC while you're watching an HD-DVD...?