A promise is a promise :) there you go!

waaaaay to much personal info being shared here...

I think i need a therapy session... :?

 

DW, it's from Little Feats' Time Loves a Hero, released in 1977:

My baby called me up
She said, "Why don't you ever take me out?
Pick me up in your brand new car
You shake the short change from your old fruit jar"

I put on my dancin' shoes
We headed straight for the rhythm and blues
The music was hot, but my baby was not

I've got a rocket in my pocket

Music & lyrics by Lowell George......

 

well I was planning on going, I really was. Then my boss yelled at me for trying to take too many days off paid this month . Ah well.

 

Nope, the song I actually totally misquoted was:

I swear I've heard him sing the song with my version of the lyrics, but I've seen him live a LOT over the years and it could have just been at one of his shows. (I've been going and seeing him about every other year for the past 3 decades or so, seriously! )

 

Uhmmmm back on topic please.... Don't want to make MrMod mad

 

this thread needs to be locked, hopefully JR got my pm. Topic has been beaten to death already, now some are just setting it on fire and dancing around it.
later,
epic

 

Yes, guys, please get back on topic of I'm going to lock this thread.

 

Would it be bad for me to point out that yours is the 666th post?

/me ducks

Nite_Hawk

 

Call me Abaddon.

 

I call you out Abbadon in the name of the Lord.
I command you in the name of the most high to return to the shadows and stop closing threads!
Go back Satan!
Flee from the name of the Lord!
I command you!

soz just had to...

Now what was the topic

I'm actually coming round to the possibility that nv40 is actually really 16pipes rather than really 8

I wish someone would give us some mystery benchies of r420 to debate the validity of

 

Well? Didn't I call the UT score? Didn't I? Hmm? >

 

Tag, I forgot, did he say they were flyby later? Because most of the rest of his numbers look practically spot-on. Are you just trying to remind us that he was mistaken as to the test, or that he was BSing?

 

Yeah, not sure what tag is saying, but Veg's scores look quite accurate. Maybe im missing something.
later,
epic

 

Wavey achieved no more than 55fps in any resolution.

Just revisiting to point out that I was not making a baseless accusation.

Having said that, however, GeForce6 is indeed very impressive.

 

heh tag was right. I was right. Wow . The world is coming to an end .

 

Here you go: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/nv40_26.html.

Results depend largely on the map.

 

I don't think anyone accused you of a baseless accusation, just perhaps an overly hasty one. But it's not like his constantly changing system specs gave more reason to trust him, so I don't think you were wrong to be suspicious.

If Wavey used the same demo as FS did in their own NV40 preview, then his system would appear to be *far* more CPU-limited, as FS got the NV40 up to 74fps @ both 8x6+4x8 & 10x7+4x8 with a 3400+. It's possible Vegetto's family member's (cousin's uncle's maid's college roommate's) Opteron's extra bandwidth could kick the ceiling up to 80fps, but that's even assuming he used the same demo. I remember seeing another UT2K4 score hitting 80 at 12x10+4x8, though it dipped to the 60s at 16x12+4x8, so in that sense Vegetto's post seemed optimistic. But I think its possible his demo wasn't a botmatch, or wasn't very long, or didn't have a lot of bots, as NV40 does seem able to achieve those scores in UT2K4. The fact that he pegged the other scores AND the clock speeds earns him the benefit of the doubt, IMO.

 

These Xbit scores are indeed larly inline with Vageito's.

What I am more interested in is where did the 4xOGSS+9-tap shots come from? Where they taken on a different card or does NV40 support all the legacy Nvidia AA modes, such an Quin. 2x and 4x, 4xS, 6xS, etc?

 

see here:
http://www.3dcenter.de/artikel/nv40_benchmarks/index6.php

 

3dceneter had two NV40 articles? Excellent work as usual.

Interestingly, unofficial 8xM mode provided quality very similar to the official 8x mode, while being ~50% faster. In fact, there seems to be something seriously screwed up with 8x AA, since the two 16x AA modes are significantly faster as well.

Altought, this still doesn't seem to explain those 4x Quincunx shots.