AMD Releases Fusion for Gaming RC1

by Lee Mathews Oct 6th 2008

AMD's Fusion for Gaming tool is finally out of beta, and ready for download. So what's it all about?

Well, for starters, it's no doubt intended to create a little buzz for a platform that has taken a bit of a beating in the recent past.

Beyond that, Fusion is designed to boost performance by shutting down background processes and applications automatically before you settle in for a gaming session. While most power users already know how to do this using services.msc and other tools that ship with the OS, the average user or ~~lazy~~ efficiency-minded geek will find Fusion a very handy way to get the job done.

There really aren't any other tools out there right now that offer Fusion's one-click simplicity.

Overclocking features are built-in as well, though they'll only be available if you happen to be running a pure AMD platform (Athlon CPU and ATI video card). If you do, Fusion will automatically tweak your CPU and GPU to squeeze out a few extra ounces of gaming muscle.

Is it worth it? Try it yourself and see, you may get a few extra frames for your trouble.

Tags: amd, gaming, overclocking, tweak

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

kojo87 said 5:38PM on 10-06-2008

doesn't work on Vista Ultimate 64bit. thats disappointing. i guess i'll overclock my Athlon 64x2 6400+ like a normal person now

mvp said 10:57PM on 10-06-2008

Software is okay, not to easy to understand at first.

Kojo what kind of cooling system you have going? I have the same processor and know how much of bitch it can be when it comes to insane temps, don't even wanna oc.

kojo87 said 1:27AM on 10-07-2008

im using an Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro so its just air cooled but it is a nice cooler. i've taken it from 3.2GHz to 3.5GHz without much trouble but i don't really run it at that for too long. i really don't OC it that much. 3.2 dual-core is plenty fast most of the time

Haze said 7:46AM on 10-08-2008

i thought this would work with my intel laptop

wht the hell ,, it says u hav to hav AMD first

i knw u will say: fool this is for AMD!

so wht i thought they said it will optimize services in windows so it shouldnt tell me that

but still i will be able to use other options this SUCKs!!

mvp said 3:41PM on 10-08-2008

Woah, grammar and punctuation would help so much in understanding what you actually meant to say.

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