Ryan Shrout on Nvidia vs AMD value for money

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sl__2PEHRI&feature=youtu.be&t=29m17s

"Nvidia would be committing suicide to keep 770 prices high"

More on Nvidia's current prices in Video.

 

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Ocuk forum legend and Greg's best mate AMD Roy linked to this on his twitter feed. I held off posting it though as i had already reached my daily quota here for AMD Roy tweet posts.

lol.....

 

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I did a little digging and it appears that he is never around at the festive period, so my further investigations brought me to this image....

Is AMD Roy Sant Clause? The man who keeps on giving and giving???

I think i can see my R9 290X xFire on that list

 

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I'm sure it is just to maximize compatibility, like apple lightning connector and other propietary ********.

I tell that to myself when I cuddle my red napkin.

This ^^^^ i would imagine the cable (They supply with the card) works best with the product. its not as if you have to buy that cable separately.

 

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Who cares, it's a GPU not a soundcard

Are you sure its not a sound card with a GPU as a bonus?

 

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lol...

 

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They actually said it has to do with blocking non-bundled DVI-HDMI adapters. If you desolder the chip or in some way disable it, you get no audio too. That's whack.

The only explanation they offered was "not wanting to support other peoples' hardware" but I think it's inexcusable.

Where did they say that?

 

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I think people are getting a bit to exited over this audio / cables business and seeing conspiracies everywhere.

"If you desolder the chip or in some way disable it, you get no audio too. That's whack" well, take out the CPU in your computer, you get no computer, surprisingly.

And if something "doesn't work" with this or that cable that is not "blocking it" its simply that "it doesn't work with that cable" hence why they are supplying cables.

 

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So to get True audio to work, you will need to use audio over the HDMI cable supplied and this is just for the true audio and not your normal 2.1/5.1/7.1?

The True Audio chip is a part of the GPU's silicone, so you can't "desolder the chip or in some way disable it" anyway...

I wouldn't have thought on GPU sound would have anything to do with your Motherboard or Sound Card sound.

AMD's GPU's have always had on board GPU sound that operates over HDMI, i would think this is the same. you can't pipe GPU on board sound into the Motherboards sound processor or indeed through the DVI cable as it has no Audio conections to the Monitor or TV.

It has to be done through the HDMI, this is hardley a revelation, there is no other way to do it.

 

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As i have understood it the True Audio is nothing more than a chip that does the calculations for special audio effect that are written for it so your CPU dont have to. When it is done the sound is still sent off to your active audio output to be processed be it onboard audio, HDMI output or your Asus Xonar sound card..im kidding. I mean any sound card..

that's possible, tho i don't know how external sound processors would deal with the decoded audio stream coming from the GPU, i would suggest it probably couldn't, the audio coming from the GPU is already streaming as it should be (its own way of producing its sound) going directly into your amplifier, an external sound processor would not recognise it let alone reproduce it.
It will have to go through the HDMI, but certainly not through the DVI

 

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What is going on here is AMD may well be supplying a (HDMI to Audio Splitter)

So you can plug the DVI into your screen as normal and then plug the audio into whatever amplifier your using, again as normal.