next Gen video cards...ATIs Hypermemory technology

[logan1]

damn i am really looking forward to these, i currently own a 9700pro .
the kewl thing is they r gonna be cheap

http://www.megagames.com/news/html/hardware/atihypermemorynewchipsetdetails.shtml

 

[pxc]

there was a thread almost 2 months back about it: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=809132

 

[coz]

Hypermemory does the same thing AGP did - use main memory for texture storage. Ok, PCIe x16 is faster than AGP 8x but you're still getting textures from main memory at 4GB/s compared to 35GB/s from video memory. This technology doesn't really interest me as a gamer.