The end of the year rapidly approaching, I thot it would be fun. . .feel free to give yours, and add catagories.
1). Viddy Card of the Year: Yes, I'm going to cop-out --a tie between X1800XT and G7800GTX512. Depends on where your priorities are. If it was "card I'd most like to own" I would have said X1800XT, as for my priorities I like the potential of Avivo and HDR AA, and the reality of low-hit HQ AF.
2). Disappointment of the Year: Gotta be something ATI, right? Alas, alas. While the R520 delay must have had greater impact, for me the greatest disappointment was CrossFire, which commercially in my book is still pretty much a no-show.
3). Innovation of the Year: Transparency AA. Right on, NV. Honorable Mention: Super AA. It says alot about the year ATI had when they got beat to market on their own innovation.
4). Most promising trend of the year: Real IQ improvements in several areas. Transparency AA, Adaptive AA, Super AA, low-hit HQ AF from ATI. HDR AA from ATI.
5). Most discouraging trend of the year: Price explosion at the top. Not much more than a year ago the top-end video "solution" was $400. At the moment it is $1,500. Yowza.
6). Dan Rather "Courage" Award: Kyle Bennett, [H], for sticking to his guns with the Phantom blowhards, putting his money where his convictions were. Right on, Kyle.
7). Person in the Industry/Community I most wanted to stick a sock in their mouth: Kyle Bennett, [H], for several other incidents over the year. Yeah, kinda conflicted with Frgmstr.
8). Inaugural Sander Sassen Professional Suicide award --Duh. (Okay, just felt like kicking him one more time).
9). Interview of the Year: Dave Baumann, B3D, Jen-Hsun Huang
10). Article of the Year: Dave Baumann, B3D, ATI XBOX 360 Graphics Demystified
11). Specialty niche reporting: Firing Squad just knocked my socks off with PC video stuff. I mean really --I had to make up this catagory just to make sure I acknowledged it.
12). Other articles I just felt like giving some love to: Wavey's X1k architecture overview, Rys' Power Supplies, Neeyik & Richard's FM interview. I'm sure I'm missing many other good ones that when others mention them on this thread I'm going to do that "Oh, I could have had a V8!" thing.
1). Viddy Card of the Year: Yes, I'm going to cop-out --a tie between X1800XT and G7800GTX512. Depends on where your priorities are. If it was "card I'd most like to own" I would have said X1800XT, as for my priorities I like the potential of Avivo and HDR AA, and the reality of low-hit HQ AF.
2). Disappointment of the Year: Gotta be something ATI, right? Alas, alas. While the R520 delay must have had greater impact, for me the greatest disappointment was CrossFire, which commercially in my book is still pretty much a no-show.
3). Innovation of the Year: Transparency AA. Right on, NV. Honorable Mention: Super AA. It says alot about the year ATI had when they got beat to market on their own innovation.
4). Most promising trend of the year: Real IQ improvements in several areas. Transparency AA, Adaptive AA, Super AA, low-hit HQ AF from ATI. HDR AA from ATI.
5). Most discouraging trend of the year: Price explosion at the top. Not much more than a year ago the top-end video "solution" was $400. At the moment it is $1,500. Yowza.
6). Dan Rather "Courage" Award: Kyle Bennett, [H], for sticking to his guns with the Phantom blowhards, putting his money where his convictions were. Right on, Kyle.
7). Person in the Industry/Community I most wanted to stick a sock in their mouth: Kyle Bennett, [H], for several other incidents over the year. Yeah, kinda conflicted with Frgmstr.
8). Inaugural Sander Sassen Professional Suicide award --Duh. (Okay, just felt like kicking him one more time).
9). Interview of the Year: Dave Baumann, B3D, Jen-Hsun Huang
10). Article of the Year: Dave Baumann, B3D, ATI XBOX 360 Graphics Demystified
11). Specialty niche reporting: Firing Squad just knocked my socks off with PC video stuff. I mean really --I had to make up this catagory just to make sure I acknowledged it.
12). Other articles I just felt like giving some love to: Wavey's X1k architecture overview, Rys' Power Supplies, Neeyik & Richard's FM interview. I'm sure I'm missing many other good ones that when others mention them on this thread I'm going to do that "Oh, I could have had a V8!" thing.
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