AMD Spider platform video
The platform combines AMD Phenom processors, ATI Radeon HD 3800 series discreet graphics and AMD 7-Series chipsets.
Next week I will be attending an AMD Spider Webinar hosted by Patrick Moorhead, vice president of Advanced Marketing for AMD. He will explain the features of the AMD Spider and provide live demonstrations.
UPDATE: check the overclocking video too...
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Comment by Phoenix, on 18-NOV-2007 02:16
Looks like AMDs big comeback is at hand......and its been a long time coming.
Comment by John Rockefeller, on 18-NOV-2007 03:33
Jeez.. that video was hard to watch. They have got a lot to learn about talking to gamers. It's annoying to hear that many buzzwords and so much marketing in a 3 minute video clip..
Comment by Jeff, on 18-NOV-2007 04:36
Man, that's pretty sweet. It's been painful to watch AMD be shafted by Intel and nVidia recently, hopefully they'll make a comeback with this. It looks like a new approach to gaming platforms, and those are usually the most successful (Nintendo Wii, anyone?).
Comment by srmalloy, on 18-NOV-2007 06:11
If it takes a quad-core CPU and a quad-SLI setup with bleeding-edge graphics cards to get the performance they're talking about, then I think they're pricing themselves well out of all but a miniscule fraction of the home-gamer PC market.
Comment by wowterraflops, on 18-NOV-2007 07:37
This video contains so much misinformation it's not even funny. It is hard to watch it and ignore the blatant marketing attempts from AMD, which, unfortunately for them, are quite ineffective for their target audience, since most of the people interested in buying "terraflops" will NOT look at their platform. Additionally, the numbers they quote and the claims that they make make me cringe in pain. I really hope this is not the standard in AMD marketing materials because I really like AMD (I am writing this from an Athlon X2), and I hope they can do better than Intel's Core 2 Duo series...eventually.
Comment by Paul, on 18-NOV-2007 09:12
I've been a huge AMD fan since the Athlon days, and I totally want to see them get back to where they were in the Clawhammer days, but this is just a bunch of marketing.
Get it in our hands and WE will decide how much better it is than the competition.
Comment by seph, on 18-NOV-2007 10:23
You can tell they don't have a solid product yet or they would have released benchmarks.
Talking up your platform is well and good, but until you show me graphs advertising better performance than the competition (intel, nvidia) I'm not interested.
Comment by Uwe Dippel, on 18-NOV-2007 13:44
"Sorry. This video is unavailable".
Hahaha. Probably due to its link on msn.
What a pity.
Comment by fred rogers, on 18-NOV-2007 19:53
I bought stock in AMD after the Athlon 64's came out, B4 Intel launched dual -core. I've been waiting for AMD to whip it out, but this video is total crap. I agree that they don't have a viable product, or they wouldn't have bothered with this fluff. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth that they're damaging their own credibility...Damn. We'll give it another year...
Comment by acebaron, on 19-NOV-2007 01:39
I figured it would take AMD/ATI a few years post-merger to up the ante with a new cpu/chipset/gpu platform and now spider seems to be the end-result. Regardless of performance vs Intel or nVidia, etc, competition is good for all of us.
Comment by Koko56, on 19-NOV-2007 03:35
ZOMG quad XFIRE!!!
"This will allow to run Crysis on Ultra settings" they should've said... lol
Comment by ibz, on 23-NOV-2007 11:18
i dont knw abt u guys ...but i wont be spending 10000$ plus to play crysis at the highest resolution -.-
Comment by Maks, on 26-NOV-2007 18:24
After the buggy Phenom I suggest to rename AMD. It should stand for American Master of Disaster.
Comment by KKatkhuda, on 27-NOV-2007 21:22
At least AMD is making an effort to punch Intel where it hurts. As of today maybe we wont be able to afford the Spider, give it few years and we will have super computers in a coke can that is affordable. Marketing strategy or not a marketing strategy, AMD is making a statement.
But what baffles me is why cant AMD/Intel put their heads together and make a super computer for everybody? Why keep the public waiting in line? Forget 32/64Bit computing, 128bit/256bit or greater computing set. But I guess its the competitive edge of the army not to have such computing powers to the public.
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Comment by sdumper, on 17-NOV-2007 09:50
OMG whats left to say....
Time to consider AMD again ;)