the GF4. Much gained fps increase compared to the usual 'newly released'
card yet no one seems to have noticed or cared?
Anyone get one yet and want to share their views?
http://www.racesimcentral.net/
Anyone get one yet and want to share their views?
http://www.racesimcentral.net/
three people have already commented on it. Two have had VERY poor
performance, the 3rd says it smokes (all with N2k2) So I think this card
is going to be another driver nightmare making sure you get your OLD drivers
completely removed before installing the new card and drivers.
dave henrie
Vintook
> > From the tests and benchmarks this card is a rather large jump ahead of
> > the GF4. Much gained fps increase compared to the usual 'newly released'
> > card yet no one seems to have noticed or cared?
> > Anyone get one yet and want to share their views?
> > http://www.racesimcentral.net/
> three people have already commented on it. Two have had VERY poor
> performance, the 3rd says it smokes (all with N2k2) So I think this card
> is going to be another driver nightmare making sure you get your OLD
drivers
> completely removed before installing the new card and drivers.
> dave henrie
it's too expensive for now
not many people have it yet
No - they just didnt get rid of drivers properly
I'm very wary of ATI after drive nightmares with an orig. Radeon - but the
9700 does appear to be a real performer ( unlike the poor Parhalia)
Doug
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> Vintook
> > > From the tests and benchmarks this card is a rather large jump ahead
of
> > > the GF4. Much gained fps increase compared to the usual 'newly
released'
> > > card yet no one seems to have noticed or cared?
> > > Anyone get one yet and want to share their views?
> > > http://www.racesimcentral.net/
> > three people have already commented on it. Two have had VERY poor
> > performance, the 3rd says it smokes (all with N2k2) So I think this
card
> > is going to be another driver nightmare making sure you get your OLD
> drivers
> > completely removed before installing the new card and drivers.
> > dave henrie
joe
> Anyone get one yet and want to share their views?
> http://www.sudhian.com/docs.cfm/id/224.sud
> From the tests and benchmarks this card is a rather large jump ahead of
>the GF4. Much gained fps increase compared to the usual 'newly released'
>card yet no one seems to have noticed or cared?
>Anyone get one yet and want to share their views?
>http://www.racesimcentral.net/
Or do what I'm "planning on". Wait for the new Nvidia card to hit and
everyone dumps their 9700s for it. :)
MadDAWG
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> >the GF4. Much gained fps increase compared to the usual 'newly released'
> >card yet no one seems to have noticed or cared?
> >http://www.racesimcentral.net/
by which time ATI can have a souped up version of the R300 out, at which
point you'll say that you'll wait for Nvidia's answer to that etc :)
the current R300 core can be overclocked to 400 mhz so there's definitely
some headroom for a faster 0,15 micron version even before they swicth to
0,13
I personally just want a card with which I can play the latest games at
ideal for a 19" monitor....
the 9700pro does this well enough for current games and the upcoming things
like UT2003, except for some very stressfull maps.. perhaps NV30 will do
that better?... but I usually like Ati's 2D and DVD playback better.
Decisions, decisions...
now that's overly harsh I think... ok he could have put an "OT:" in the
title, but,
who nowadays would buy a high -end NVDIA or Ati card for something else
than ***???
for 3D rendering, there are special, stable cards
for bussiness, these are overkill
and just watch the benchmarks for these kind of video cards and you'll see
that everything they use to test it with is video-***.
> > Nvidia ***?
> No - they just didnt get rid of drivers properly
> I'm very wary of ATI after drive nightmares with an orig. Radeon - but the
> 9700 does appear to be a real performer ( unlike the poor Parhalia)
> Doug
yes, like AMD is know for CPU's that cause instable systems and CPU's that
go up in smokes :)
seriously, I didn't buy an original Radeon because of some of thos issues
(and lacking brute force power) but form everything I've read, drivers are
stable now
> > > Nvidia ***?
> > No - they just didnt get rid of drivers properly
> > I'm very wary of ATI after drive nightmares with an orig. Radeon - but
the
> > 9700 does appear to be a real performer ( unlike the poor Parhalia)
> > Doug