farewell to ATI

[Jaskanwar Singh]

1985: The Founding - Picture Story - Tom's Hardware

 

[asingh]

^^
Really nice read. Seeing the chronological line up and development of a brand. My exact card featured in there too...!

Thanks.

 

[rajan1311]

good read..thanks...

surprised they did not mention 4850, was a good seller i think..

 

[vickybat]

Still amd will use the radeon brand anyway. They have the expertise to produce great cards in the future.

 

[asingh]

^^
It was not Radeon which was removed. ATI is out.

 

[vickybat]

Yaa.... gonna miss that symbol though. That red and white symbol looked great.

So from now on its amd radeon right?

 

[thetechfreak]

gonna miss ATI and also the symbol..legendary..

 

[Liverpool_fan]

ATI for me is synonymous to buggy drivers and poor support for Linux. Thing have improved tremendously since the AMD takeover. Hopefully with the name change, we have an omen for superb Linux support.

 

[coderunknown]

good read..thanks...

surprised they did not mention 4850, was a good seller i think..

HD48** series named as a whole & remember what reviewers told about HD4850 when first launched? it was one hot card. using a single slot cooler for a highend card is never good (custom coolers were used later). small flat fan, perfect for making a cup of coffee

Yaa.... gonna miss that symbol though. That red and white symbol looked great.

luckily, i got ATI, not AMD.

So from now on its amd radeon right?

should be.

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

you are welcome asingh and rajan.

 

[Piyush]

nice pick jassy
its been months since i visited TOMs

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

thanks baba

 

[rajan1311]

HD48** series named as a whole & remember what reviewers told about HD4850 when first launched? it was one hot card. using a single slot cooler for a highend card is never good (custom coolers were used later). small flat fan, perfect for making a cup of coffee

Well, sometimes you could like that...when you hear you fan at full rpm while playing crysis, you kinda "feel" that its doing a lot of work and is one powerful card! Well, back then it did feel like that...

 

[coderunknown]

yes, back than it was a nice performance card (still is, just out of stock) till it uses a custom cooler. BTW your card uses the reference cooler? if so, i may come to your place for a cup of coffee than

 

[rajan1311]

^anytime mate, just that even with stock cooler, it runs at just 70C in my new cabby. In my old cheapo cabby, it used to go around 107C,used it for almost 1 year at those temps,still runs like a champ !

 

[coderunknown]

^anytime mate, just that even with stock cooler, it runs at just 70C in my new cabby. In my old cheapo cabby, it used to go around 107C,used it for almost 1 year at those temps,still runs like a champ !

107C so reviewers were really serious when they said this card do heats up really bad & may burn itself.

 

[asingh]

^^
HD48xx series were made for one thing. 3D processing POWER. Rest of the metrics went out the window. Users still lapped them up...!