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Post by spazsterian on Feb 21, 2014 9:38:18 GMT -8
Guys, I've been selected as part of a special program at AMD (not officially announced yet). Some of my duties are going to include travelling to E3 and PAX West  But also I'm here to help out my fellow gamers with answers to questions about AMD products. While this isn't a "paid' gig there obviously are some perks to be forthcoming. If you guys have any questions about AMD products, go ahead and fire away, I will do my best to get you an answer. Be patient though, like anything else , I have to go through channels to get the replies. Thanks for your input! tORNTV AMD READ TEAM+ |
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Post by neverender158 on Feb 21, 2014 12:06:38 GMT -8
That is great Ian. You answered all of my AMD questions last fall when I was upgrading.
Congrats on the gig!
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Post by spazsterian on Feb 21, 2014 12:50:28 GMT -8
Your welcome Jim, as you know... excellent customer service runs in this household..lol
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Post by Knight of Redemption on Feb 21, 2014 14:37:47 GMT -8
Sweet, nice one man |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2014 15:17:23 GMT -8
Congrats Ian!!!!! Sounds like an awesome gig! So when are you going to break out the AMD-sponsored car for Spazcar (if I haven't seen it yet  )? |
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Post by spazsterian on Feb 21, 2014 15:29:45 GMT -8
LOL I been running it all season, just my busy ass hasn't gotten any videos done yet. & Thanks Paul |
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Post by zero7159 on Feb 21, 2014 16:20:32 GMT -8
When is AMD going to stop selling their cards to these bitcoiners that are causing the prices to skyrocket? The problem is that you no longer get better bang for your buck with AMD cards at these high prices. Take a look at this recent article from ExtremeTech: www.extremetech.com/gaming/176724-amd-graphics-card-pricing-skyrockets-due-to-cryptocurrency-mining-could-kill-amds-gaming-effortsHere are a couple of interesting quotes: "At $400, the R9 290 was faster than the GTX 780 — and the GTX 780 is $100 more expensive. When the R9 290 is selling for $600, the entire value equation around AMD’s MSRP’s falls apart. An R9 280X for $489 is an absolutely terrible investment; the Nvidia GTX 780 will demolish that price-performance ratio — but that’s where things sit today. These price trends are particularly worrisome given that AMD has just launched its new Mantle API. It’s essential that AMD illustrates strong demand for its graphics cards in gaming. GPUs sold into the cryptocurrency market at huge prime premiums could wind up driving gamers away from AMD at the very time Sunnyvale needs to win them over. That’s not to say we’ll see companies dropping Mantle — it just makes the way forward that much harder for AMD. When it comes to Mantle, a GPU sold to a gamer and a GPU sold to a miner aren’t fungible. The modest positive impact on AMD’s graphics revenue may not be worth the long-term complications or potential loss of market share." |
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Post by spazsterian on Feb 21, 2014 17:55:17 GMT -8
I'm in 100% agreement with you Craig. It's my beef with them right now too. They need to repackage and modify their GPU's for both industries. A gaming market and a mining market. I've brought this up and will do so again when I tour headquarters in Austin, in May. It's a sore spot for me as well.
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Post by Dan W. on Feb 22, 2014 0:01:12 GMT -8
What is this mining everyone keeps talking about? I don't get it.  |
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Post by F1Fan07 on Feb 22, 2014 0:42:03 GMT -8
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_protocol#Bitcoin_miningEssentially as I understand it, Bitcoin is virtual currency that you can purchase/sell/buy things with. There are Bitcoin ATMs, websites that take Bitcoin... I even saw a guy at iRacing selling his entire sim rig and accepting Bitcoin. You can make more coins by solving the cryptography that is part of the transaction chain. Bottom line appears to be that people that were smart enough to get in at the beginning made a lot of money as the currency rapidly increased in value and people now have to spend a ton of money on specialized hardware to try and turn a profit on it and then make money. There have been several high-profile thefts of Bitcoin via vulnerabilities in websites. Silk Road (open market peer-to-peer sales for drugs, etc) lost about $2.7M in Bitcoin they were holding in escrow for transactions. That alone keeps me away from even considering it. I prefer my money to be backed and secured by banks and governments and not vulnerable to some teenager with a lot more time on his hands than me.
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Post by neverender158 on Feb 25, 2014 7:02:23 GMT -8
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Post by spazsterian on Feb 25, 2014 7:50:53 GMT -8
Yup I would like see it crash it out, but there's enough people in the world doing it now. I don't think it's going to go away. There's one that is ANSIII based, and it relies on processer , not gpu. I hope that becomes the "mainstay" instead.
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But also I'm here to help out my fellow gamers with answers to questions about AMD products. While this isn't a "paid' gig there obviously are some perks to be forthcoming. 
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