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To: pgerassi who wrote (254082)	7/16/2008 3:59:09 AM
From: bnsbhat	Respond to of 275872

SFF set up: This is quite interesting: fudzilla.com Hope it sees light of day. Regards S. Bhat PS: Just 17cm by 17cm!

To: pgerassi who wrote (254082)	7/16/2008 7:25:19 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Centrino 2 issues - 65% CPU to playback a DVD They're working on fixing the drivers. If it's still like this at launch it will be a disappointment for buyers, to say the least. When you claim 6 hours of battery life, it's best to be able to get through a 90 minute DVD without the battery crapping out. As we mentioned earlier in this article, we couldn't get the hardware video decode acceleration working properly on the GM45's integrated graphics. We used a beta version of Cyberlink's PowerDVD 8 Ultra (v8.0.1903.50) with support for GM45, but when playing back Gone Baby Gone we ran into some issues. CPU utilization did go down, but so did our frame rate. It was almost as if the video decode engine was only decoding half of the frames, the stuttering was that bad. Granted this is pre-release hardware, with pre-release drivers and a pre-release Blu-ray player, but going back to what we originally said - we expected a little more polish less than 30 days away from availability. anandtech.com

To: pgerassi who wrote (254082)	7/16/2008 9:19:15 AM
From: eracer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: You full of BS today. Fusion is mobile, but OEMs have been known to use mobiles in desktops usually in SFF setups. And what percent of the desktop market will that account for in 2009? 0.01%? And most of that would just come from cannibalizing other AMD sales rather than Nehalem sales anyway. As for the "Roadmap", its already out of date. That roadmap had R700 class GPUs not showing up until Q2/09 for Consumer Enthusiast Platfotm Desktop. Sorry (not much) to break it to you, R700 class GPUs are already here in very early Q3/08. You know them as the HD4850 and HD4870. The rest of that class of GPUs are to show up this quarter. Given that 9 month pull in from a roadmap about 7 months old, whose to say what it shows now? Certainly you are unqualified to say what it shows now. Until we hear or see something different from AMD there is no reason to believe the roadmap has changed in regards to Fusion. Since a IGPU two generations forward is as fast as a mid-high end card, like the RV610 (HD3450) is about as fast as a R430 (XT800), having a R810 should be as fast as a RV670 (3850). One data point does not make a trend. Thus R800 class will start in Q2/09, just in time for Shrike...Granted some of this is the clock increase at same power due to the better process 2nd gen 45nm SOI (likely this means HiK/MG) versus 55nm bulk. R800 could be nothing more than R770 on 45nm SOI HiK/MG. Riiiight. So AMD is going to ditch the TSMC 40-nm process and by Q2 2009 AMD will already be on a second-gen 45-nm SOI process for the R800 launch. That's about as likely as 5GHz $100 quad-core Nehalems launching in Q2 2009. As for 780G not being able to play games at minimum settings, look at this for COH4: You've changed the subject! The conversation was about the importance, or lack thereof, for check-the-box support for new versions of DirectX. Thankfully you've proved my point. You are bragging about the DirectX 9 performance of CoH4 on the 780G, even though it is a DirectX 10 chipset. Would you also brag about DX11 being a feature in Fusion by showing us a benchmark some old DX10 game playing at minimum details?