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Win An ATI Radeon 4870 Video Card!

Get your questions in for the SkinCast!

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Although we had to take another break from the WinCustomize SkinCast last week, this week we are returning and will have a special guest, along with some huge prizes we are giving away.  For an upcoming episode of SkinCast, we will be talking with Darren McPhee, the Sr. Marketing Manager in Gaming for AMD.  We will be discussing several topics with Darren including AMD/ATI products, graphics, gaming, and much more.

We will also be taking user-submitted questions from the community for this episode, and the top three questions selected will win a prize.  We will select three of our favorite questions, and the users who submitted these questions will win one of the following:

  1. Grand Prize Favorite - ATI Radeon 4870 512mb video card courtesy of AMD/ATI. 

  2. Second Favorite - Copy of Demigod, when released and beta access.

  3. Third Favorite -   Copy of Sins of a Solar Empire.

User submitted questions must be submitted as comments in this thread only, no other means will be accepted.  Questions can be related to ATI/AMD, skinning, Vista, technology, gaming, etc.  The deadline for submissions is 11:59pm EST, Wednesday, August 13th 2008.  Good luck and get those questions in!

*Employees, family, direct friends of Stardock, AMD/ATI, GPG, IC can ask questions, but are not eligible for prizes.  :)

 

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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Because I run dual monitors I can load GPU-z and set on my secondary screen while playing Crysis (1600x1200 high) and watch the temps run up. Without the profile settings my temps went over 100C under heavy load. I'm not worried about the video card...I'm worried the ambient temp increase might fry my CPU, HDDs, memory or some other crucial part.
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I can't imagine the ambient temp going up too terribly much. My current processor (Pentium 930D) runs around 75C idle and my case's ambient temp sits around 30-35C. All other components (that I can measure temps with - HDD's and video card) are all within normal ranges.
Siege of Centauri
Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Why can't Nvidia get it right?  X-( 
Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
What is ATI's plans to challenge Intel in the processor market? How will ATI re-enter into the high end market, or will it?
Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Boxers or briefs?
Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Two questions: 1) What effect will ray tracing have on rasterized graphics, if any? And how will this affect AMD/ATI and their development of video cards? 2) Will AMD/ATI be partnering with game developers to help their development and ensure maximum compatibility, much like Nvidia currently does? Thank you.
Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top
my question is a very simple one: when can i expect the delivery of the complimentary radeon 4870 to my door?
Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Two questions: What can we look for in the future regarding AMD/ATi's tools for developers?
What progress has AMD/ATi made with Fusion? Are you getting the increased performance you were hoping to get by combining the CPU and GPU?
Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Through the years, I've seen people (including myself) upgrade their top-of-the-line motherboard just because there was newer processors/ram available that used a higher frequency than the chipset was able to handle. Do you expect that in the future all motherboard could be "pretty standardized" that you could upgrade only the socketed chipset (like we do with CPU/RAM) ? To me, it would be a revolution for Desktops and even better for Notebooks.
Reply #36 from WinCustomize Forums Top
In recent years, VPU speeds have skyrocketed. Is there plans in the near future to change the socket for Video cards to allow for the ever increasing speeds? and how will this affect the general gaming market?
Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Can we ask multiple questions without disqualifying ourselves? How does ATI plan to change the future of advanced skinning and animations? For example will there be significant improvements to technologies such as Dreamscene to allow more hardware optimization taking load off of the CPU? This would lead to the ultimate interface if even animations and video files could be displayed 100% independent of the CPU, as well as advanced transparency effects and motion reactions in windowblinds skins.
Reply #38 from WinCustomize Forums Top
As a mid-range to power user, and an unquestionable devotee to AMD processors, what benefits can I expect from using an ATI graphics card along side my AMD processor rather than that of an Nvidia or Intel base, if there are any benefits to be had? Question #2 (if this is allowed): I enjoy participating in open source driver projects (such as OmegaDrivers), and I was disappointed in your company's choice a few years ago to discontinue allowing them to write drivers for your chipsets. As a result of that decision, I switched to an Nvidia card. However, I now see that Omega Drivers is again able to write drivers for the ATI chipset. What benefits do you see in allowing open source drivers to be written for your graphic cards, and what concerns still exist in allowing open modification to your drivers?
Reply #39 from WinCustomize Forums Top
1 In future AMD and Intel will be alloyed and create the most Smart Procesor ever created? 2 How manny procesor need thw strongest Computer in the world? 3 I have an amd athlon 64 3000+ single core and Ati radeon 9550 ..do you think AMD it is better than Intel?..because i want to excange then.
Reply #40 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I only have PCI space in my computer and need to know what would be the BEST Video Card I can use?
Reply #41 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I can't imagine the ambient temp going up too terribly much.
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HWMonitor shows HDDs up 7-9C w/o custom profile(s)
Reply #43 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Are there any plans for a low power passively cooled gaming video cards? While performance is key for many people, I'd rather have a nice quiet low powered card that doesn't need a 500 watt power supply to run (preferably no separate power connector required), and still be able to play games at reasonable settings (not maxed out eye candy settings) without heating up my case/room and running up my power bill. How come there are no adaptations of mobile graphics cards for desktops? Sure the performance level isn't the same, but they don't use 100+ watts of power either.
Reply #44 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Im running an ATI Mobility Radeon x1400. I seem to have a couple of graphical issues with the game City of Heroes. Ive noticed that moving enhancements around, the mouse jumps about 1/2 an inch on the screen when i try to click and drag one of the enhancements. Nvidia cards dont seem to have this problem. Im just wondering what would cause the mouse jumping issues with the ATI cards.
Reply #45 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Stream processing, although not a new idea, is getting closer to the consumer level. Does AMD plan to support any stream processing functionality with the Radeon line and what do you think will be the first consumer level uses for stream processing? I imagine that since any such functionality would, in the near future, provide performance advantages for non-gaming applications, this would give consumers yet another reason to buy a Radeon.
Reply #46 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Question: The new HD4xxx series of ATi graphics cards offer an excellent price/performance ratio for consumers. Does AMD/ATi plan on continuing this with future products instead of trying to make a $700 monster card that a very small percentage end-users can afford? Having cards that offer high-performance at a relatively low cost could prompt OEM's to ditch (or at least reduce usage of) low-end Intel Integrated graphics chips that are usually combined with a pretty decent CPU to create a massive bottleneck that turns ignorant users away from games because when they try a game it runs horribly. Elimination or reduction of that situation could really give PC Gaming a boost.
Reply #47 from WinCustomize Forums Top
One thing that prevents many mainstream computer user from becoming involved in "hardcore" gaming is the low processing power of integrated graphics that are standard on most prebuilt systems. AMD/ATI has some models of these used in laptops and some desktops. Does ATI plan to make integrated graphics that are better equipped for recent games?
Reply #48 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Before answering to the next question, please have in mind the following : I'm from Romania. A good friend of mine lives in the USA. And now the question : When do you think I will be able to really slap him during an online game tournament and he actually takes physical " damage " ?
Reply #49 from WinCustomize Forums Top
With touch screen technology now available, it would seem the future is finally catching up. I would imagine that virtual imaging technology for computers is right around the corner and we'll soon be wearing goggles and gloves to surf the web. Does ATI have anything in the works for this frontier?
Reply #50 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Boxers or briefs?
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I approve of this question. Anyway:
While ATI has displayed an impressive ability to innovate, particularly with the HD4000 series and the Crossfire update that lets you mix and match graphics cards, AMD is still lagging slightly behind Intel in the processor market (particularly in the high-end market). Are there any new innovations or performance boosts planned for the future?
ATI seems to be leading Nvidia in the graphics market at the moment, but Nvidia is currently launching PhysX, which will run on all their recent cards. Do you think that physics processing is going to be an important feature? Does ATI have any physics-related plans?
AMD looks stronger in the low-end and midrange markets than in the high-end. Do you think that computing in general is moving toward massively parallel architectures, or one monster chip that does it all?
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