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Well DELL is selling more and more PCs using the 3DMark benchmark. They're also marketing Dimension PCs towards gamers too. You'd think that using marketing material based on tainted data would make DELL a little squeemish (could be false advertising? :?: ). I certainly think this is costing...

Whether you like the guy or not, this is a good thing for the community. We smaller sites (mostly this one ;)) have been aware of this for a long time but never had the voice or the clout that [H] has. But now that Kyle has turned around, hopefully it'll bring some new awareness to the sad state...

It appears NVIDIA has claimed the top spot in the DirectX 9 GPU marketshare. However, this number is a little misleading considering that a large majority of that is the FX5200, which we all know is an under-powered card which probably can't run DX9 properly. ATI's numbers are smaller in this...

WOW! You should write for the Inq! :D BTW, I did send Mike Magee an email concerning that review. I don't expect a response, but I thought he should know what some readers think of it. :twisted: - Jonathan.

:D Try to do it in 409 words too if you can. ;)

As far as I know, NVIDIA determined that the AF issue was a bug before I concluded as such last weekend. In their IRC chat, they referred to the AF issue as a "bug". So I would assume that NVIDIA has done their own testing in isolation, because they never contacted me about it. If NVIDIA has...

Nazgul (or anyone else who cares :)), The anisotropic filtering issue we/I raised with the article at AMDMB is a different issue than the bi/tri issue. The AF issue looks more to be a bug. I've done more tests and will publish an update that will be released after my next article is...

This is beginning to feel like scooping fish with a net. Looks easy, but deceptively hard. :D Guess 3: Radeon 9600 Pro / Radeon 9500 Pro? That benchmark suite is pretty universal (even if I use only 3 of them :wink: ). SpecPerf is used by a lot of people too. Seems like I should...

Ok. Here's my second guess: UT2K3 - DM-Antalus flyby. Max Details/Ultra Details on FX5900. I think texture quality is an important thing that should be searchable. In changing between performance to quality, you can get a huge difference in benchmark scores (which may explain the two poles...

There should be some sort of artifact testing built into 3DMark. At any sign of tearing etc, the benchmark would abort. It's too easy to overclock a card and get a "boosted" 3DMark while the image is ripping and tearing everywhere.

Here's my guess: 3DMark 2001SE: Car Chase or Lobby on a FX5900. How do you account for differences in driver settings (i.e. performance, quality, mipmap levels etc.)? - Jonathan.

Nah. Typos like that are forgivable... but the rest of that review is pretty skimpy. I think they should just stick to reporting news/rumours/etc. I'm so tempted on clicking that "Flame the Editor" link on the bottom of their page. :P

Here's a review The Inq on the MSI FX5600 (probably the most reviewed FX card to date). What makes this review so unique is that they review it in 409 words (408 if you don't cound their "µ" as a word :D). http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10748 - Jonathan. PS. Hanners, you want...

Oh. BTW, my editor updated my article. It now gives props to this site for the work done here. 8) Thanks everyone! - Jonathan.

cho. Thanks for attempting the experiment... but the map name I published in my article is wrong. (Go figure I find these mistakes AFTER it's been put live). The proper map is called CTF-HallOfAnubis. It's a custom map and you can find it here. Please try the test again and see if the floor...