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Thread : Is a Video card "CPU aware"...?
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Profile: enthusiast
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This may seem like a dumb question but...
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Not really. The Nvidia Intel thing is possible, since Nvidia could tweak their drivers to throttle performance when using an AMD cpu in conjuction with one of their cards. But I really can't see them doing it, it would just hurt sales.
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Profile: old hand
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With all of nVidia's talk about how they're neutral between AMD and Intel, I doubt they would do it. They couldn't care less if a system used an AMD processor, or an Intel one, just as long as the graphics is being provided by one of their cards or internal graphics chips. |
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As others have mentioned, anything could be possible through the use of drivers. Frankly, I don't see anyone doing this, as it would be easy to catch. The backlash wouldn't be pretty.
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U win some, the rest u smoke
Profile: old hand
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There was a TGH article on this a month or 2 ago.
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Actually, the 2D/3D clocks have been implemented far earlier than the X1800 cards. I'm running a fairly ancient 6600GT on my office PC and it has separate 2D and 3D clocks. |
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Sorry, ATI fan here, not sure how early Nvidia had them. Actually, the x800 series might have had it also, but i'm not 100% sure. (if anyone with an x800 series card wants to educate me, please do.) I know the 9800 didn't have it. |
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I believe my Geforce4 MX440 had 2D/3D clocks as well. I think I remember trying to tweak it for some silly reason. |
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The video card "thinks", is smart, it "knows" the CPU, it "knows" the user.
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No real problems. I just avoid all problems with the law now... It did cause me to add the troll comment to my sig. Some people are just so stupid that your best not replying to them at all.
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I had an GeForce 4 MX440 SE. It didn't have separate 2D/3D clocks.
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Nope, not completely sure but I remember trying to tweak it a while back on something. It could very well have been my 5900 which I spent more time trying to make faster than actually playing on it lol. |
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Hell yeah. The GMA950 gfx chipset actually rivals the hd2900xt in terms of performance. It's just that ATi and Nvidia have struck up deals with all the leading game developers to optimize games for THEIR products. It's fairly common knowledge, but Intel isnt going to do anything since their gfx division accounts for such a small percentage of sales, and ATi and Nvidia pay Intel tons of cash under the table to keep quiet about it.
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Not quite. Intel graphics suck because they only make onboard graphics. Onboard graphics needs to use system memory instead of their own. This means that GPU memory is smaller then card amounts, has a much longer path to go through (request for ram needs to go through the NB AFAIK), and the memory bandwith is lower then the mob informant in the east river. I'm kinda curious how well Intel GPUs would be if they put them on their own card with their own memory. |
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To add to this, ATI has now implemented the 3D to 2D settings in hardware, I cant remember if they fixed it for AERO tho |
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Profile: enthusiast
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In a way, what you've said is possible, but unlikely considering the consequences for being discovered. The drivers for any device sitting on the bus (PCI Express, for example) do the translation for the device. They pass data needed by the card to the card and take information from the card to pass it on to the rest of the system. This is all done through a standardized bus architecture, though, so any "corruption" like you speak would have to be at the driver level (and therefore easily detectable) or in the OS. The cards themselves are not really "aware" of anything on the other side of that bus unless it has been passed to it by the drivers.
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