* Posts by Crash71

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AMD foundry spin-off breaks $4.2bn ground

Crash71

Legacy as in AGP?

@ UBFusion, well I don't know about linux, but AMD/ATI posts Catalyst AGP drivers with every new driver release, they are here: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/CatalystAGPHotfix.aspx

And if yer GPU is 4+ years old you wont gain much/if anything by running the current nosebleed drivers anyways, and likely will get better performance with older drivers that were specifically catered to when that line of GPU was in its heyday.

Nvidia does no better on the driver front. And they abandon hardware left right and center. Ask anyone with a Nvidia Nforce 2-4 mobo chipset (like myself) (Of which my Nforce 3 is less than 4 years old, and they manufactured a chipset that fails if you use a Dual+Core). Nvidia also abandons their GPUs, my 7600GT that is a little over a year old and now useless due to faulty GPU and severe pixelation - and even if it wasn't -- it is no longer supported by the Driver releases.

AMD may have some financial woes, but at least they're honest and support their hardware. Just look at the new AM3 Chips coming down the line that are pin-compatible with AM2 boards.