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Subject: im buying a new graphics card, but i need help
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oh ok sweet, thanks for the advice

  • 05.02.2006 6:02 PM PDT
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Homie, haven't you heard of the Chuck drivers? Here's the interview with the creator himself. ATi X1K series cards can have HDR and multisample antialiasing enabled. nVidia cannot, not even the G7 series. I'm not saying that any card this guy is trying to buy can do that. I never said that.

Gamespot - it's a matter of their choice of drivers, and that skewed the results. X-Bit, however, used the most recent drivers from both companies. In their independent review, it shows that X1900XTX Crossfire is better than nVidia's 7900GTX SLI. It's right there in the review. If you want to discuss why the Gamespot review is skewed and not reliable, head on back to the other thread. I posted an entire paragraph on it, but of course you didn't read it and just accused me of flaming and getting 'dumber'.

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  • 05.02.2006 6:21 PM PDT
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um...ok, guys, chill, dont start a flame war.

and whaddya know? my first ever HOT TOPIC thread. xD oh, im so proud of myself. lol

  • 05.02.2006 6:25 PM PDT
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And I wasn't talking about Quad SLI either. You have a serious problem with not reading through posts and links. I just posted the X-Bit review that showed in its graphs two 7900GTX's losing to two X1900XTX's in nearly every game. Yes, the review focuses on Quad-SLI, but benches for normal SLI and Crossfire are in it too.

By: Sexy Legs Davis
...Finally, Gamespot is not using the most recent Forceware and Catalyst. While the others use FW 87.24 and Catalyst 6.4, Gamespot uses FW 84.17 and Catalyst 6.2. Gamespot's drivers are older.

Catalyst 6.2 offered early support for Crossfire. However, only until Catalyst 6.3 did ATi intoduce optimizations for the X1800 and X1900 series of cards. These allow better performance and eleminate previous bottlenecks. nVidia introduced optimizations for the 7900 series with ForceWare 84.17.

Thus, Gamespot's benchmarks are skewed. Not only did they not use the most recent drivers, but their nVidia drivers are optimized for the 7900 series and their Catalyst driver are not optimized for the X1900 series. Essentially, the review is not credible. To add insult to injury, 84.17 does not allow the 7900GTX to overclock properly. Hence why, in all of the reviews I've read, only this Gamespot review uses it. They are the only review site to use 84.17 in testing the 7900GTX. All other reviews I've seen use either the reviewer 84.11 drivers or the standard 87.24 drivers. Can anyone say credibility and reliability?


Of course, you'd have supposedly already read that since you said I was flaming you and making myself look 'dumber'.

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  • 05.02.2006 6:27 PM PDT
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get a 6600GT if you have an agp slot, or a 5500 if you only have PCI. You will see a marked improvment from integrated with either of these. The 6600GT is by far the better card out of the two though.

  • 05.02.2006 6:27 PM PDT

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