Quote Originally Posted by Sushi Warrior View Post
Man, your ideas are just TERRIBLE The instant AMD decides it's a great idea to launch a water cooled GPU because you have the greatest idea ever I will start walking dogs for a living 7970GE already pushes Tahiti past the power efficiency curve, asking for MORE clocks out of it would lead to a Fermi problem for AMD. Hawaii really is not as far off as everyone thinks. Just think rationally for a minute before you get too carried away with "I told you so!".
1. If Gigabyte can get 1100MHz base clocks out of Tahiti, AMD can get 1200 with some binning and water cooling that pulls air from outside the case. Selling it at $550 makes it $100 less than a 780 and a "new" high end product. As GHz Editions sell for $450, that gives them $100 for a closed loop cooler plus whatever GHz coolers cost. (as you wouldn't need one of those with the water)
As the "GHz Edition" itself if a new cooling solution and some factory OCing, it's pretty obvious AMD likes ideas like "a new cooling solution and factory OCing" as a refresh, and I sent this to one of their staffers.
I really hope they make the card, because if they do, I'll buy a dog and have it kenneled in your city and pay you some tip money to walk it.

2. Nice source-less rumor "Hawaii is comin' soon!".

3. The bundles of games are getting stale and the FX8350 bundle a. wouldn't cost much more b. if you took the seven games away and added the FX8350 the profit margin should be close c. you could give the option, game or chips to appeal to a wider base of customers d. giving people FX8350s gets AMD cpus in people's boxes

The fact of the matter is AMD is getting slammed in the high end GPU market, and slammed in the desktop CPU market.

They need creative ideas to sell the products they have to sell- not products coming 6 - 10 months from now.