Chapter 293 A promise is a promise, double happiness!

Mid-July, Zhonghai.

Although the development of "The True Story of Aba" is still going on, Chen Ba has already left Jiangning and drove to the headquarters of China Mirage Electronics.

There is a big event today! After a long wait, Mirage Electronics is ready to release a 7090Ti graphics card for the PC market.

Of course, release is release...

The press conference is just to inform the majority of players that the graphics card market has welcomed a new player - Mirage Electronics. As for when this graphics card named "Sword God 7090Ti" can be purchased, it is still an unknown.

All parameters are fine.

After all, this is the first graphics card made by Mirage Electronics, so they are definitely sincere in stacking the materials, and the expected pricing is also quite impressive.

Other competitor products with the same core frequency and video memory specifications are mostly priced at 8,000 to 9,000 yuan, while the 36G version of the "Jian Shen 7090Ti" from Mirage Electronics is only 6,499 yuan! "So awesome?"

Guo Mo, who came across this news by chance, had not originally planned to change his graphics card, but the price still made him very tempted.

After all, you can buy a 7090Ti for only 6,500 yuan, which is nearly 2,000 yuan cheaper than its competitors. It would be a lie to say that I am not tempted.

It just so happens that the 60 series graphics card he is currently using is a bit out of date, so he can take this opportunity to upgrade it to a 70 series.

After Guo Mo came up with an idea, he immediately opened the homepage of Xianyu Digital and planned to buy a "Sword God" graphics card.

Who would have known...

This thing can only be pre-ordered now, there is no stock at all! Moreover, if you pre-order, even the customer service of Xianyu Digital can't tell you the specific delivery date.

"Dear, our production capacity is currently insufficient and the launch of new products requires multiple rounds of testing and baking. Please understand..."

The explanation given by Xianyu Digital is that as a new brand and new player in the graphics card field, Mirage Electronics' production capacity is indeed very poor. Even if Nvidia and AMD provide enough chips, it still cannot produce them.

It would be great if they could have 2,000 graphics cards in stock in the early stage! In fact, the truth was far more cruel than Guo Mo thought. The first batch of trial production of "Jian Shen 7090Ti" by Mirage Electronics was only 167.

Yes, 167! The first batch was less than 200, and the second batch was less than 500. These two batches were either given to game studios at home and abroad, or used for extreme testing or to burn in the machine. Anyway, consumers could not buy them.

Chen Ba also knew about this problem, so he required that the third batch of "Jian Shen" graphics cards must be produced to meet market demand as much as possible, and the number must not be less than 2,000! Then the fourth batch, no less than 5,000...

After producing the fourth batch, we can take a break and think about the next flagship "Swordsman" series, "Sword Demon" series and "Sword Princess" series graphics cards.

After all, Jiansheng is a top-level flagship graphics card with a high price and high configuration. The market demand may not be that great. Producing six or seven thousand graphics cards will be enough to sell.

"Jian Shen is a high-end graphics card, so the demand is not that great. Besides, this is the first time that Mirage Electronics has made graphics cards, and many consumers don't trust the craftsmanship and design, so the sales volume will be very low. We can just make some casual products."

Chen Ba gave instructions: "This is your first foray into the graphics card field. You should focus on creating the "Sword Princess" series represented by the 7060 and 7060Ti."

This is the main force of shipment!

Seriously, every year when a new graphics card is released, there seems to be a lot of buzz online about the 90s and 80s, with some saying about squeezing toothpaste to reverse upgrade configurations, etc. The popularity is simply unprecedented.

But in fact, the main contributors to sales of each generation of graphics cards are basically the 60 and 60Ti cards, while AMD's is the X600 series.

Anyway, graphics cards priced between 2000-4000 are always the most sold.

Chen Ba believes that the "Jian Shen" series of cards, which are high-end flagships, can be used casually. If Mirage Electronics wants to gain a firm foothold in the field of PC hardware, the "Jian Ji" series is the absolute trump card!

"We are a new player. This is our first time making graphics cards. We don't have that many loyal fans and advocates. So if we want to expand the market, the best strategy is to offer low prices..."

"Can!"

Chen Ba agreed, saying, "It's fine to use low prices to gain market share and sales. We are a new brand, so we have to give consumers some profit for the first time."

Not to mention making money, when entering the market for the first time, Chen Ba’s requirement for Mirage Electronics was “don’t lose too much.”

That’s right!

It is acceptable to make a small profit, or even sell at the cost price and lose some shipping costs. After all, if a new brand wants to rise, it must first sell graphics cards, right? If the price is not favorable and the brand is not blessed with the faith of "Da Renshuo", why would consumers buy your cards? "By the way, Mr. Chen!"

"After our graphics cards are released, they will definitely be bought by many people for testing. Besides running renderings on the machine, the most likely way to test them is to play games..."

At this point, several Mirage Electronics executives smiled knowingly and all looked at the leader, Brother Ba.

After getting a new graphics card, shouldn’t I play some games to test the frame rate changes and heat generation?

What game should we play?

Most of the popular games on the market, except those from Tencent and QQ, basically come from Tianba Studio, which is a sister company of Mirage Electronics.

So here comes the question.

We are all family. After all, we all work for Brother Ba, so is it okay to take care of our own people?

I sell a graphics card with the same specifications, frequency and memory as you, but my price is lower than yours. My frame rate is higher than yours when I play games like "Star Emperor 2", "Cultivation Fantasy", "Speed ​​Racer", "Marble Storm" and so on. Isn't it natural that I sell well?

"Don't worry, I'm prepared."

Chen Ba signaled to everyone to rest assured, as he had already made arrangements for this. He had already applied "special optimization" patches to all of his games through the deep optimization module of the Tiehanhan system.

That’s not all.

Optimization within the game is one aspect. If you want to widen the gap, optimization at the hardware driver level is also essential.

The two-pronged approach ensures that the frame rate of Mirage Electronics' graphics card is one level higher than other graphics cards when playing Tianba's games! Others' 7060 can only run 2K60 frames, while Mirage Electronics' Sword Princess 7060 can run 4K70-80 frames. Isn't this a veil?

The most amazing thing is that the price of Sword Princess 7060 is several hundred yuan cheaper than the 7060 of other competitors...

Let's be reasonable! With this combination of punches, Chen Ba thinks that as long as the players are not stupid, they will give priority to the new brand Mirage Electronics when buying new graphics cards.

In this way, Mirage Electronics’ first battle in entering the PC hardware market is almost won.

The only problem may be...

After installing the graphics card driver provided by Chen Ba, will this batch of graphics cards from Mirage Electronics have unknown bugs like the "Galaxy Set"?

Once bitten, one fears the rope for ten years! After learning that Brother Ba wanted to make changes to the drivers of this batch of graphics cards and create some kind of chicken blood driver, the faces of several Mirage Electronics executives suddenly changed.

"No, you can't!"

"We can just make the driver program ourselves. If you do it, if there is a bug like the Galaxy Suit, it will be a serious problem..."

This is the graphics card, the core hardware that costs several thousand dollars and is installed in the computer case!

If using the graphics card driver given by Chen Ba eventually causes problems with the graphics card, then Mirage Electronics will be dead before it even starts.

This is also the reason why everyone tried their best to dissuade him and refused to agree no matter what.

There is no other way! The Galaxy Suit incident really scared everyone. Before confirming that the graphics card driver written by Chen Ba was 100% safe, Mirage Electronics said that it would never dare to use this driver.

"But……"

Chen Ba understands their concerns, but he also said that if the optimization is not done in conjunction with the graphics card driver, the final optimization effect may not be that good if it is only done within the game.

"It's okay, that's enough."

"We can just optimize it so that our graphics card's game frame rate is higher than that of our competitors. Whether it's 10 or 20 frames higher, the effect is the same."

This is absolutely true.

Mirage graphics cards do not need to be optimized to an extreme level, they just need to be optimized better than graphics cards of the same level from competing companies.

Who doesn’t know how to compare the worst?

Since the frame rate does not have as big an impact as imagined, there is no need to use the driver provided by Brother Ba on the graphics card.

"Okay, then I won't repair the driver."

Chen Ba sighed, and said with a slightly regretful expression: "But then again, I have already written this driver. If it cannot be installed, wouldn't it be a waste?"

"You mean..."

"How about this! You can put the "Chicken Blood Graphics Driver" I wrote on your official website for users to download and install."

Chen Ba explained: "Before downloading and installing, a pop-up window will be displayed to remind the user that this driver may contain unknown bugs and we are not responsible for any accidents."

"That's fine too..."

This request is not excessive. After all, it is just a special driver version option, not an official recommendation. You can download it or not.

Anyway, the pros and cons are all told to you.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

This graphics driver is an unofficial version, and unknown problems may occur after installation. The advantage is that after installing this graphics driver, you can get the extreme frame rate when playing Tianba games, which is smooth and fluent without lag.

Let the players choose for themselves.

If you are willing to be a guinea pig and take a little risk to get a smoother gaming experience, then just download and install it! Anyway, the consequences are clearly explained to you. After installing the driver, don't be surprised no matter what outrageous bugs or loopholes appear, because this is normal.

…

After returning to Jiangning from Zhonghai, Chen Baxian went to the hospital to visit Lao Wang.

This was Lao Chen's request. He said that he and Wang Ya were having a hot relationship, but he rarely took time to visit his future father-in-law, which was not very kind.

"What future father-in-law?"

Chen Ba complained: "I haven't even started yet, and you're already assigning me a status?"

"Then tell me, what's going on between you and Wang Ya now? You were chatting so passionately, don't you two have a relationship?"

“Nowhere!”

Chen Ba shook his head and denied it, "She just took over a large company and lacks management experience. She often comes to me for advice."

“Ah, this…”

When Lao Chen learned the truth, he angrily scolded, "I thought you two were dating, but it turns out that all you talked about was work?"

"What else?"

Chen Ba was also speechless. What else could they talk about if not work? Was they going to talk about when Lao Wang would die?

He understood Lao Chen's thoughts.

But to be honest, Chen Ba and Wang Ya were just friends and there was no spark of love between them at all.

"You don't really like men, do you? Yang Dong is already married, and you're still thinking about him?" Old Chen said in shock.

Chen Ba: “???”

Who is spreading rumors that he likes men? Just spread rumors, but why is it always Brother Dong who is involved in scandals with him?

Can't you change someone?

"I... I don't know how to describe it. Anyway, it's hard to fall in love with someone again, no matter how beautiful she is."

After all, he was his own father, and Chen Ba couldn't bear to see him running around and working hard for his marriage, so he told him the truth.

"Frigid?"

Old Chen frowned and said, "How did you get this disease? After seeing Old Wang, go ask the doctor. If you are sick, you should get treatment. Don't delay..."

Chen Ba was completely speechless.

He finally understood that Lao Chen would not give up until he achieved his goal, and no matter what he said, it would be useless.

"I'll try my best!"

"I'll give you an answer by the end of the year. Whether it's Wang Ya or someone else, I'll bring someone back to celebrate the New Year together this year."

"You hired an actor to trick me, right?"

"I'm not looking for an actor. My first target is Wang Ya, who you like, and then the others."

Chen Ba said frankly: "Let me be frank with you. I will give you a chance to have a grandson, but don't interfere in other matters."

Isn't it just holding a grandson? Whether it's Old Chen, who is lying in the ICU ward and is said to be in critical condition but is getting more energetic day by day, or Old Wang, they are all thinking about this matter.

Let's be frank. Wang Ya and he have no feelings for each other, but they can be together because of interests or "being well matched".

When we have two children, one with the surname Chen and the other with the surname Wang, everyone will be happy!

He felt that Lao Chen would not object to this suggestion.

To put it bluntly, the suggestion put forward by Chen Ba happened to be exactly what Comrade Lao Wang on the hospital bed wanted to achieve most.

emotion?

Given the family background of both parties, it is undoubtedly a luxury to talk about love. Old Wang wants to find a "suitable" husband for Wang Ya, but he is worried that when he gets old, his daughter will not be able to keep the family.

Chen Ba simply obliged him.

Anyway, Old Chen is in a hurry, so he can take this opportunity to fulfill Old Chen's wish of having a grandson.

As for the fact that Wang Ya was not the person he liked, that didn’t matter. After all, the person he really liked had already married.

"It's a deal, double happiness!"

Sure enough, when Chen Ba told Lao Wang his idea, Lao Wang immediately clapped his hands to show his agreement without even the slightest hesitation.

So smooth?

Chen Ba was a little surprised. He didn't expect Lao Wang to agree so readily.

He guessed that Lao Wang would agree to this proposal. After all, the old man had been eyeing him for a long time. If he got a son-in-law like him for free, he would probably wake up laughing in his dreams at night.

But even though he agreed, this old guy was too lazy to even pretend?

In ancient times, the emperor had to decline the throne three times before ascending it. How come it is as easy as inviting a guest to dinner for Lao Wang to marry his daughter? No...

Is this Lao Deng pretending to be sick? Chen Ba, who had not thought about it at first, realized something instantly when he saw Lao Wang's ruddy face.

(End of this chapter)