In 1997, personal microcomputers were still tall objects, and many schools were equipped with microcomputer rooms, with anti-static floors on the ground and shoe covers in and out.

When the baby is cared for, I am afraid that if I am not careful, I will overturn the car.

A computer is often tens of thousands, although under the big knife of Aihua Technology, the price of brand computers has plummeted, but three or four thousand computers, the performance is not satisfied, and the performance you want to see the quotation is six or seven thousand.

What to do?

DIY!

But I don't know how to DIY CPU, motherboard, and memory!

It doesn't matter, there is a computer newspaper!

Two pieces of five, one issue a week, the price of mainstream computer accessories on it, plus the evaluation of "experts", the recommended configuration list, is simply the gospel of the majority of DIY enthusiasts who seem to understand whether they understand or not.

Of course, this is also what the bosses of the computer city like to see.

Ge Ning has a shop in Zhongguancun Computer City, and what he likes to see the most is the stunned young man holding the computer newspaper.

"Boss, a computer!"

The salesperson hurriedly poured a cup of tea and said politely: "Brother, drink saliva, by the way, what do you plan to do with this computer?"

"Office, games or something!"

"Oh, brother, if you play a game, then you must have a better CPU, a better graphics card, and by the way, the memory should be larger, so let's write you a configuration list first!"

A few minutes later, a freshly baked configuration sheet appeared in front of the customer.

"Athlon 2nd generation 533 processor, the king of performance, this CPU is not at all stressful to play games. ”

The young man nodded, he had been looking at this processor for a long time, and there was a very authoritative review in the computer newspaper.

"The Athlon II 533 processor is too expensive! How much is your Athlon II 266?"

"480, you go and inquire, the lowest price in the whole computer city!"

The young man with the computer was excited for a while, and he earned it, and the reference price on the computer newspaper was 620, and he just asked a circle, and there was no less than 580, 480, which was more than 100 cheaper.

This face naturally fell into the eyes of the sales.

The difference is that in the eyes of sales, a small fat sheep is waiting to be slaughtered.

"Is the quality guaranteed?"

The sales patted this chest and said: "Brother, we are a first-class agent here, go is the quantity, you look at this, we write it clearly, in our computer, protect you for three years, that is to say, these three years, whether your computer is a cold or a cold, you just need to move the computer over, we will help you repair it for free." ”

One sentence dispelled the young man's doubts.

Compared with the computer newspaper, look at the other quotations are basically the same, but on the chassis power mouse and keyboard, it accounts for seven or eight hundred yuan.

"I see that the power supply of the chassis over there is only more than two hundred, and you have more than four hundred?"

The salesman said earnestly: "Do you dare to use more than 200 of them?" You dare to use them, I don't dare to use them, the power supply cuts corners, maybe the computer will be burned, and it will be too late to cry when the time comes." ”

Think about it, too, you also need a good keyboard and mouse to play games, and it's no problem to spend two or three hundred.

A total of 4700, the graphics card with it is naturally the ripper Pro.

This scene happened to fall in Wang Anran's eyes, the market is a weather vane, Wang Anran is used to running around the computer city in Zhongguancun if he has nothing to do.

Regardless of the brand machine for the time being, in the DIY market, Huaxin Technology's Athlon™ processor and ripper graphics card occupy an absolute dominant position.

"The value of these two million flowers can also be invested in additional investment, and there are more advertorials. ”

According to the computer newspaper evaluation, the ripper graphics card has created the 3D era, and the performance of the ripper Pro graphics card has generally increased by about 30%, and even the lowest-end 130Pro graphics card can run Counter-Strike smoothly.

"Good article!"

Wang Anran pointed.

The development of graphics cards is inseparable from games, hardware drives the progress of games, and games naturally promote the development of hardware.

But now the embarrassing thing is that Counter-Strike has created a precedent for 3D games, and for more than a year, there have been few 3D masterpieces in the world, and the consequence is very direct, that is, the demand for graphics cards in the world is not so strong.

In fact, most people buy discrete graphics cards for the purpose of running the Windows system smoothly, and then be able to play VCD videos, preferably two Counter-Strike, then perfect.

And this, the ripper graphics card can do it completely, of course, if you want to open more special effects, the second generation of the ripper is also a good choice.

This embarrassed Nvidia.

The performance of its own graphics card has reached the top in the world, why is the sales still not ideal.

"Lao Huang's knife skills still have to be honed, it is estimated that this time, Nvidia will lose as pants!"

Wang Anran didn't expect that NVIDIA's finances last year turned out to be a loss.

When you look at the market, you can understand that Nvidia graphics cards have good performance, but the price is generally more than 1,000 yuan, and the price of Huaxin Technology Ripper 109 Pro is also 1,000 and 5.

This is not the main reason, Rebus also specially invited people to post advertorials all over the world, a central idea is that although the performance of Nvidia's graphics card is good, it is in the field of professional graphics cards, playing games, or relying on cheap and easy-to-use ripper graphics cards.

Admire, admire, Rebus is a total marketing genius.

Wang Anran is also sincerely admired, Rebus can always find a selling point at once.

A few months after Nvidia was released, the sales of Ripper graphics cards overseas fell off a cliff, but now, sales have risen steadily, and last month it surpassed the highest level in history.

But......

Nvidia has always been a stumbling block in front of us.

The crisis remains.

Wang Anran knew very well that in 1997, the CPU manufacturing process would be revolutionized again, and after the 500nm manufacturing process, the 320nm manufacturing process would soon come.

If competitors adopt new processes and launch new CPUs and graphics cards, Huaxin Technology will once again be in a passive state.

In addition, after more than a year, 3D games are bound to usher in a blowout development, and it is not impossible for Nvidia to turn over.

The performance of the product lagged behind for a while, Wang Anran was not worried, he was worried about the standard.

For example, the display interface.

Will OpenGL make a comeback, and will Dircet 3D, which Microsoft just exited, go bigger?

That's what kills!

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