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Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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![]() | ![]() THERE'S PLENTY of news about HP's new Voodoo-inspired gaming machine, the Blackbird. Indeed, our own Charlie pondered its existence just yesterday. However, he missed one thing - the fact that the Blackbird runs Crossfire on an Nvidia chipset motherboard. http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42213
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| ![]() Hmm, does it really? Can they actually do this in hardware without resorting to a software hack? Otherwise soon as someone installs updated drivers they could be in for a rude surprise. ![]() |
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Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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![]() | ![]() they can lock driver updates to only HP drivers; like most laptops now do for GFX mobile parts
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| ![]() By the way it's CustomPC... Are they making fun of the magazine? Aren't they any legal issues with this SI/Crossfire thing? |
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Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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![]() | ![]() They use tons of "nicknames" ![]() http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inq...nd_terminology # Bogger - Blogger. # Cappuccino - Cupertino # Captain Canuck - ATI # Chipzilla - Intel, coined by Terry Shannon, as known as Charlie Matco # Chimpzilla - AMD # DAAMIT - The merged ATI and AMD. Coined by Brian Briggs of BBspot. # Fruitzilla - Apple # Graphzilla or the Green Goblin - NVIDIA # Hocus Pocus - The merged HP and VoodooPC. # iAMD64 - Intel version of x86-64, the EM64T or Intel 64 # Itanic - Itanium # Mozzarella Foundation - Mozilla Foundation # Open Sauce - Open Source # PR Bunny (as known as Spin Paramedic) - a Spin Doctor # Wackypedia - Wikipedia. # The Boy Wonder - Anand Lal Shimpi of AnandTech. # The Pabster - Thomas Pabst of Tom's Hardware Guide. # The Vole - Microsoft http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=8069
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| ![]() You gotta love wikipedia.... ![]() I didn't know about te nicknames thing. |
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| ![]() Well, here's the word: Quote:
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Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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![]() | ![]() interesting, what's keeping people back from using CF on retail Striker 680i boards?
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