Recent content by Dolemite

Your parents might thank you someday for not blowing all their money... ;) Honestly, unless you feel like you need to spend all that money, I'd just put together a modest system but just make sure your parents know you could've blown it all but didn't. Buying a mid-level system and then just...

Remember that game they were using to pimp the original Geforce, "Experience"? I know nVidia at least commissioned the DMZG portion of that game just to show off the hardware. Unfortunately, that game never came to fruition, for whatever reason. Anyway, I think most GPU companies are...

I think its an interesting idea. Not sure about profitability, but if it convinced enough people to upgrade, it might break even eventually. Huge companies like ATI and nVidia could probably come up with a decent engine in, say, 6-8 months. It would have to be completely non-proprietary to...

nVnews forum archives are gone... ;) Looks like you'll have to settle this the old fashioned way. [Chanting]: Two men enter, one man leave! Two men enter, one man leave! :lol:

Dude, an 800x600 desktop? I hope you're on a 486 or something... :roll:

Seems a wee bit exclusionary, doesn't it? Maybe we should start racial profiling as well? ;) And BTW, sometimes the most well-informed people turn out to be the most biased fanboys. Doomtrooper, Hellbinder, Chalnoth, et al....sorry guys, ;) you do know your stuff though. I have my...

Well, if you're gonna get heavy handed about it, I think you have to apply some reasonable and consistent standard. Like I said, in a certain way I understand why the 2nd NV30 pic thread was closed, but I don't agree. Mainly I think that topic bears investigating (I hope that still happens...

IMO, the higher degree of anisotropic on the Radeon offers unquestionably better image quality than seen on any Geforce thus far. And yes, I've run them both personally so this is not some f@nboy BS. What I did appreciate about the nVidia implementation is the presence of trilinear in...

IMHO, closing the "Since the Nv30 Pic thread is closed..." thread was unnecessary. Sure, I understand the logic behind it, "you can't open a new thread on a closed topic," but when you start to discuss said topic in a civil manner, I think the need to close it is averted. And, BTW, was the...

$5K is too damn much to be spending on a computer these days... :lol: You're talking a huge diminishing point of return above $1000. Get whatever CPU/mobo tickles your fancy, P4, Athlon, both are great. Don't spend over $300. Add in 512MB DDR for about $100. GF4 ti4200, $150...

Any way you slice it, its just unethical for a company to claim their products are doing something they aren't, which is not to say that it doesn't happen constantly, which it does. In this case, hopefully we can get a definitive answer on how these pics were rendered. Hopefully someone with...

I think some of the problem is just the nature of the web. I remember a few years back when there were just a few major hardware/gaming websites, like Anandtech, HardOCP, VE, AGNHardware, etc. Now all those guys except AGN are still around, but there are about 10x more very similar websites...

I don't think anyone outside of nVidia and perhaps a few developers really know enough about Cg at this point to give qualified answers to these questions and of course the nVidia folks can only give you the PR-approved BS. First of all, I don't think the comparisons with Renderman are...

Whenever something has to be specifically timed like this, you can be assured of its PRness. IMO, this is the kind of journalism (if you can call it that) that we can do without. It seems the distinction between reporter and PR-slut gets blurrier by the day. What happened to the days when...

Heh...I read some review of Daikatana when it first came out...it was probably about the top three funniest things I've ever seen. I'm sure a lot of the reviews were a bit comical, but this was just hilarious. If anybody knows what I'm talking about, hook us all up with a link. ;) Edit...