Volcanic Islands features the GCN 2.0? It will be yet 28nm?

Ignorant question!! But How about HD 8970?

28nm mean only a refresh over the actual architecture and the performance/consume ratio won't have big changes... I hope AMD shows something new this time.

This generation from nVidia and AMD is lasting a lot more than I expected... the issues with the process shrinks are holding back the inovations.

I think the HD 8xxx are only rebranded HD 7xxx cards... in most cases OEM only.

What kind of water/ice cooling we'll need to cool these volcanic islands.

I laugh a lot now.

I know you are joking but for real it is true... AMD will try to increase the clock of the top end cards and without a low process (22 or 20nm) the "volcanic" name will be accurate lol.

I hope they can works with 22/20nm for the release of HD 9000.

With the chips being bigger they will also be more expensive.

AMD, you better have something to compete with the GTX 7xx series, otherwise...

Not always more expensive.
28nm is old and mature now, so yields would be high, hence they can get away with having larger chips and still end up being cheaper than when the 7000 series launched.

Interested to see what uArch changes they bring in as like with the 6000 series being stuck at 40nm AMD had to increase die-sizes and improve efficiency. (I.E. Move from VLIW5 to VLIW4)

This is kind of a random question but...my computer has 2 graphics cards (Intel HD 4000 and Nvidia GeForce GT 630M 1 Gb Gddr5) and whenever I play games on my laptop it gets pretty loud. It switches out which graphics card it uses depending on what I'm doing so for instance if I play a game it uses Nvidia but if I'm browsing the internet it uses the Intel one. I was just wondering is it normal for it to be loud when I play games? I assume it's the fans that are hard at work but I get worried and I try not to play for a long time because I feel as if I am harming my computer when doing so.

It's called "Optimus" technology.

Essentially when you are not doing anything demanding it switches to the Intel graphics to save on battery life.

As for the noise, it's perfectly normal, you are not going to reduce the notebooks life, it was designed to handle it.
Heck, if I had it, I would have overclocked the nVidia GPU on top of it. :P