Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 9th Nov 2009 21:29 UTC
3D News, GL, DirectX Over the past few years, there have been persistent rumours that NVIDIA, the graphics chip maker, was working on an x86 chip to compete with Intel and AMD. Recently, these rumours gained some traction, but NVIDIA's CEO just shot them down, and denied the company will enter the x86 processor market.
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The real problem is with the pc market
by nt_jerkface on Tue 10th Nov 2009 04:03 UTC in reply to "Comment by flanque"
nt_jerkface
Member since:
2009-08-26

Consoles and piracy are taking down the high end.

With more games being designed as multiplats there is less of a need for pc gamers to upgrade.

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flanque Member since:
2005-12-15

There's a degree of truth in that I think, but not entirely. It feels as though the hardware is lasting longer, but that really depends on your usage profile.

I'm only just upgrading from an Athlon64 3200+ 754 and have been playing Crysis, on lower settings of coarse and been more or less "happy" as I still got to play the game just with less candy.

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nt_jerkface Member since:
2009-08-26

The game came out in 2007 and yet it is still used for benchmarks.

High-end games that push pc hardware sales used to come out more often.

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