Recent content by ben6

Hrm maybe this should be relabeled as the NVIDIA Shows signs of laughter to the bank thread. BTW happy holidays to Beyond3D forums (I've been gone a while)

It was a quote from Steve. homerdog I'm doing OK, been absent from here for a while but life goes on but its nice to be remembered.

Here's his take on death from his 2005 Stanford commencement speech: When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked...

Wow, Steve Jobs was a class act and will be missed. RIP Steve :(

eh whatever life is too short to worry about SPs and performance. I'm going to sleep wake me when 2x Cayman are released

I honestly don't know what to say. When I heard about this I thought way too young. Takes an emotional thread to get me to post Ben

Err I didn't mean to downplay the Rage 128 as the discrete version had excellent 32-bit color and performance but the fact was the Rage II/Pro Turbo lasted well into that era as a integrated graphics solution and that wasn't fun I got to tell you. Ya know in this day and age where you can buy a...

Err um do we really want to go back to the era of ubiquitous Radeon "HD1xxxx" chips with 128MB of GDDR5 memory lasting 5 or so years that the Rage chip lasted? (Exaggerating a little but the original Mach 64 chip was introduced in 1995 and the last iteration Rage 128 Pro with admittedly far...

Just tried it on my Vista machine: System Specs AMD Athlon 64 5000+ Dual Core X2 2 GB Corsair DDR2 XMS8500 memory 2 74GB WD Raptor SATA HDDs 7900GT running 100.65 Vista drivers Windows Vista Ultimate Edition M2N32-SLI Premium Vista Edition motherboard The error I get is Loading...

Did you do this demo by yourself? Pretty good

And as a GTX owner I would rather keep 16x CSAA enabled than have to "Force 4x MSAA" in an application that I won't notice the performance difference in anyway unless I'm running a benchmark script. Rather than call it a driver bug I'd almost NV call it a Feature.

What applications are having trouble with 16x AA on 8800GTX or GTS in terms of performance? I generally use 16x if I'm comfortable with 4x in a game. And apart from the apples to apples performance comparisons doesn't 16x IMPROVE IQ versus 4x or worst case scenario drop down to 4x mode?

The first thought when I heard the Editor's Day was cancelled without a hard new date (this is what concerns me most about the cancellation) was exactly what Extremetech thought, a respin. NVIDIA and ATI don't book events inviting mainstream press, finanical analysts, hardware websites, book...

Add Guru3D to the list of reports. I seriously doubt its FUD, a "tactic to fool NVIDIA" or any other such nonsense http://www.guru3d.com/ Posted by Hilbert Hagedoorn As a lot of sites will report this soon. Guru3D can confirm that the upcoming AMD.ATI R600 launch has been delayed...

Hrm, cancelling Editor's Day after booking hotel, and flights would seem to indicate at least May before release. If it a matter of a week or two or even three, they surely would have kept Editor's Day and just slipped the launch. Remember it's 20 days before March 11th right now.