Zalman enters video card market
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PostPosted: Sun, 24th Jun 2012 19:58    Post subject: Zalman enters video card market
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PostPosted: Sun, 24th Jun 2012 20:05    Post subject:
i was hoping they would build their own GPUs from the ground up. i guess at this point it's almost impossible to make a company that could compete with nvidia/amd.
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PostPosted: Sun, 24th Jun 2012 21:09    Post subject:
I don't think they ahve that kind of money or engineering. They're just using reference cards. They've always been a cooling solution company..and a mediocre one at that. Not a lot of money comes in from that especially when they've been falling behind in building enthusiast performing cooling for CPU's.


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PostPosted: Sun, 24th Jun 2012 21:25    Post subject:
So they will be "cheap generic reference board with colorful cooler #731"
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PostPosted: Sun, 24th Jun 2012 23:19    Post subject:
LeoNatan wrote:
So they will be "cheap generic reference board with colorful cooler #731"


hey, i ALWAYS buy those! Laughing
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PostPosted: Sun, 24th Jun 2012 23:21    Post subject:
its all about the cooler and not the brand these days.
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PostPosted: Sun, 24th Jun 2012 23:23    Post subject:
It has always been like that with reference boards.
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PostPosted: Mon, 25th Jun 2012 03:08    Post subject:
:shrug: I'm an nVidia fanboy now.
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PostPosted: Mon, 25th Jun 2012 09:14    Post subject:
Intel_NVIDIA wrote:
i was hoping they would build their own GPUs from the ground up. i guess at this point it's almost impossible to make a company that could compete with nvidia/amd.

If anyone, it would be one of the mobile ones. Imageon (formerly part of ATI, now Qualcomm, Adreno GPUs) but much more likely Imagination Technologies (PowerVR). Joining the desktop market would be a huge investment. Technically speaking it would be possible though: the PowerVR 6-series does upwards of 200 GFLOPS (the exact number escapes me) on a part that fits into a smartphone.
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PostPosted: Mon, 25th Jun 2012 14:41    Post subject:
I miss the days of my Kyro II. It had some of that Voodoo feel.


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