Official PC Thread

[Fe 26]

Well, if someone wanted to play with us I might buy it for them.

But you have to play it and not ladder it to your pile of Uninstaller steam games.

[gamevet]

I just saw this today. It's really f'en cool.

http://www.amazon.com/Fallout-Anthol...out+collection

[ChaoofNee]

I'm keeping my eye on this:
https://www.humblebundle.com/

Spintires!

[Fe 26]

No one are we going to voice chat while playing this? Which software do you use?

[Rtificial]

We need to get a TNL broforce game going. Anyone here playing dungeon defenders 2? I just started giving it a try.

[gamevet]

AMD has a Class-Action lawsuit against them for falsely advertising the Bulldozer as a real 8-core processor.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/...er-core-count/

A class action lawsuit has been filed against chip-maker AMD for allegedly tricking consumers into buying its Bulldozer processors by overstating the number of cores contained in the chips. The suit claims that while Bulldozer was advertised as having eight cores, functionally it actually only had four.

AMD's multi-core Bulldozer chips use a unique design that combines the functions of what would normally be two discrete cores into a single package, which the company calls a module. Each module is identified as two separate cores in Windows, but the cores share a single floating point unit and instruction and execution resources. This is different from Intel's cores, which feature independent FPUs.

The suit claims that Bulldozer's design means its cores cannot work independently, and as a result, cannot perform eight instructions simultaneously and independently. This, the claim continues, results in performance degradation, and average consumers in the market for a CPU lack the technical expertise to understand the design of AMD's processors and trust the company to give accurate specifications regarding its CPUs.

Because AMD did not convey accurate specifications, the suit argues that tens of thousands of consumers were misled into buying a Bulldozer CPU that cannot perform in the same way as a true 8-core CPU. Allegedly, this would mean AMD violated the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, California’s Unfair Competition Law, and was guilty of false advertising, fraud, breach of express warranty, negligent misrepresentation, and unjust enrichment.

AMD is being sued for damages, including statutory and punitive damages, litigation expenses, pre- and post-judgment interest, as well as other injunctive and declaratory relief as is deemed reasonable.

This is not a good sign for the future of AMD. A lawsuit like this could pretty much break them.

[Yoshi]

I'm not sure how that's different than the Neo Geo being advertised as "24-bit" or the Jaguar being "64-bit," though maybe those statutes didn't exist or people actually took responsibility for their own purchases back then.

[Fe 26]

Good. Fuck companies that lie on specs

[kedawa]

Except this isn't about specs. It's vague marketing bullshit that doesn't represent the actual functionality of the product, but that's nothing out of the ordinary.
I'd rather see people gang up on flash memory products that don't deliver on the stated capacity.

[Yoshi]

Exactly. You can't protect an idiot from himself.