Joe DeFuria
Legend
Here it comes already:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1261770,00.asp
It'll be most interesting to see which sites HONOR the request of the software developers, and which ones don't....
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1261770,00.asp
nVidia has been circulating its Det50 driver to analysts in hopes that we would use it for our Half-Life 2 benchmarking. The driver contains application-specific optimizations that will likely improve nVidia's overall performance picture, however Valve's Gabe Newell expressed concerns that some of nVidia's optimizations may go too far. Doug Lombardi of Valve has explicitly asked that beta versions of the Det50 drivers not be used for benchmarking.
It'll be most interesting to see which sites HONOR the request of the software developers, and which ones don't....