AMD GAME!: first of all, the platform

After the AMD LIVE! and Better By Design programs, now we have AMD GAME!. Once again, this involves the Sunnyvale company promoting a complete platform consisting of a minimum of a Phenom, Turion X2 Ultra or Athlon X2 5600+ processor, an AMD chipset and a Radeon HD 3650 or higher (the 3400 seems excluded for the moment but no one will complain). Any AMD GAME! configuration will be enough to run the latest games for Microsoft Windows.

If in actuality this won’t change anything for the conscious buyer, the new marketing campaign is quite a good idea. While AMD LIVE! was a response to Intel’s Viiv and Better By Design aimed to improve the quality or set a minimal for graphic performances (discreetly putting VIA out of the game), this time the company stresses the one thing they are the only ones to provide at this time: a complete gaming platform. Intel does not yet have a real GPU and Nvidia doesn't have a CPU in its catalogue.

AMD GAME! configurations are already available online at Alienware, Cyberpower, iBuypower, Maingear and Velocity Micro. Otherwise, we will have to wait until the second half of the year to see them in stores. ACER, ASUSTeK, Corsair, Qimonda and many others have already pledged their support.