You may as well talk about talk about cultivating land here. Because there is a game with a goat, and goats need hay/grass, so why not speak about good fertilizers? There should be a boundary, and while this topic may not be crossing it much/ at all, methinks this is not the place to post this.
If someone is interested in GPUs/gaming hardware he probably already saw this on other site. I'm not saying don't post this here, just I don't think it should be.
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I'm sure all gamers have gaming hardware. A subset of them have AMD GPU's or APU's. You don't have to be a hardware enthusiast for this to be relevant.
By this token you'll throw away any posts where people ask what hardware to buy or talk about problems they have. Come on, it's a gaming forum, these things are relevant.
Sure, the SG forum has largely moved from a place for discussion to a place where each post is expected to include a giveaway, but that's not necessarily a reflection of forum health.
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i agree, problem is: most gamers do not know how a hardware or software development process works, they do not even have an idea, how complex such systems are.
to gamers: no developer or test department can test every configuration and no system of this complexity is free of errors. most developers (is not hindered by greedy publishers like in most of the gaming industry) are happy to investigate and fix every bug they get to know of - but to fix a bug, someone has to find it.
you often complain of bugs in games which are not fixed for month. this sucks and the publishers of these games deserve every shitstorm.
now a developer of a part of your comupter that has an effect on every game and application on your computer is eager to improve the quality by asking you to report errors. so, this is your chance - if something does not work - report it and they will try to fix it.
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Not going to lie, AMD GPUs are fast and good for mining Bitcoins. NVIDIA cards have better optimisation but they cost more too, while AMD is mostly about brute force with less optimisation. Needless to say, their drivers still need a lot of work.
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I may do the survey when i will have time because it's very long but since i have brought amd cpu/gpus since back to 2007 i will do it but in terns of gpus i might go with nvidia next year because if the 750 ti even if i just recently got an hd 7790
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thanks for the information.
beeing a software deloper, i appreciate the effort you take to improve the quality of your drivers, and gladly will fill out the form if i find any bugs.
we all profit from better and more stable drivers, not only in gaming but also in other applications. if you think it takes a lot of time to fill out the form - reading and analyzing it and finding the bug is much more effort.
perhaps you can motivate the community by rewarding reports that result in a bug found and fixed. that could increase the effort people take in better describing the problem and therefore decrease the effort for you investigating the bug.
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argument? that was a comment or you can call it the truth XD
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Well, Mr. Self-Professed AMD Fanboy, I hope you will share with us the cost-benefit analysis supporting those bold claims! And that's not to sound confrontational, I just don't follow the hardware market as religiously as I used to.
Given the opportunity I would love to support the AMDerdog, but not to the detriment of my game-buying funds.
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check out FX 6000,FX 8320/50.The first one costs less than I3 processors,it haves 6 cores clocked at 3.5 ghs with unlocked multiplier and turbo boost up to 4.2 ghs.It compeats with mid range I5s for so much less in price.The second one is the same,only it haves 8 cores and compeats with i7,again it only costs as an i5.
R7 270/80 offer incredible performance for a mid ranged price tag,they are much better than Nvidias GTX 750 in that price range.
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Sorry but no...3 or 4 modules (not cores) that only compete with Intel in highly threaded scenarios. In every day use and not well threaded scenarios (which is the majority of what you do) they don't compete at all. Games are noticeably more stuttery because the IPC is just so low.
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Nope. AMD and Intel have very different architectures at this point. Modules are closer to large single cores but with separate integer units. Intel has more traditional cores. SMT is implemented through different hardware.
As you can see, Haswell i3's are far from loosing badly. It only happens in highly threaded scenarios which is not web browsing and desktop usage. If you specifically need the thread count, then by all means buy one of AMD's FX processors.
The bigger problem can be seen in this review. For whichever reason, whether it's the architecture or the IPC, AMD's cpus just can't keep as steady frame rates as Intel.
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Unfortunatly i will admit with you since you clearly know more about hardware,and i was just guided by my fanboysm.I will remain AMD fanboy tho,i will keep posting stuff like this and hopefully nobody as well argumented as you dont come my way.Cheers.xD
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This was posted on many forums, and I figure SG is a good place for this, so copied this from Anandtech. Here's the original post:
Hello everyone,
AMD needs your help --
As we continue to improve our Catalyst Driver suite, we kindly ask you to help us by submitting any issues or bugs you have experienced with our drivers by using the form below. We value your feedback and intend to use the information you provide us to make our Catalyst Drivers better.
Note that this form, which closes on September 12, is different from the standard Issue Reporting Form we regularly use; therefore I ask that you use this form even if you already submitted to another form in the past. For the next 7 days we are making a concerted effort to increase the number of reports we receive to create a “bible” of bugs encountered by our customers.
Please click here to access the form.
Your feedback is greatly appreciated, thank you in advance!
Sam
Community Manager, Enthusiast and Component Channel Communications
Official AMD Representative
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