Hercules 9700
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Marco may have a little more information - he's reviewing one now.
Hercules has just officially introduced the 3D Prophet 9700 Pro so I would imagine that it won't be far away..... patience man.
http://us.hercules.com/mediaroom/pr/lookpr.php3?pr=180
http://us.hercules.com/mediaroom/pr/lookpr.php3?pr=180
Sabastian said:
OR....if you don't have the patience buy yourself an ATI-branded card and if you must have them, pick out your own heatsinks and put them on yourself....
Personally, I think they're a gimmick--but that's just me.Anyway, the 9700 impresses me more every day--every single game I've thrown at it it has run without a qualm--and that's a considerable amount--probably about 15 fairly recent 3D games. Especially Giants, Dungeon Siege and some others that people reported problems with--nary a one--nary a single, solitary problem with these games! Just installed Diablo II/LoD last night with associated patch--perfect in every respect. WarCraft III--perfect. What was cool was Deus Ex--I can scarcely believe how much better the game looks than I remember it--really *everything* seems to look considerably better to me. Maybe it's just suggestive thinking--but somehow I doubt it...
Lemme' see...what was that card I used to own--Gee...uh, Gee-Man? Was that it? Uh, G-2???? (Getting harder every day to remember what it was--funny, though--I have this vague notion that somehow that card was important in some way. Oh, well.)
Well, not long ago iXBT reviewed it:
http://www.ixbt.com/video2/hercules-r9700.shtml
You could always use a translator (I'm a native Russian, so I didn't need one )
http://www.ixbt.com/video2/hercules-r9700.shtml
You could always use a translator (I'm a native Russian, so I didn't need one
)Digit-Life (iXBT's english mirror) have posted that same iXBT article in English, so no traslators needed anymore!
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/radeon/hercules-r9700.html
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/radeon/hercules-r9700.html
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alexsok said:Digit-Life (iXBT's english mirror) have posted that same iXBT article in English, so no traslators needed anymore!
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/radeon/hercules-r9700.html
I just saw that article for the first time. I'm glad we were able to find out why their first 9700 review had so low scores in UT2003. Now the true power of the 9700 shines though, showing over 3x the performance of the Ti4600 in several instances.
However, Digit-life's "expert in the sphere of 3D accelerators, Viktor Poluektov" seems to be full of crap, as he believes the 9700 does rip-mapping. Even the 8500 didn't do rip-mapping, it just didn't calculate the req'd number of aniso samples properly. Furthermore, everyone else says that the 9700 aniso quality is just as good at NVidia's now, whereas he is making some complaints. He even justifies other glitches with a rip-mapping explanation.
Well, I guess every review has its good and bad aspects.
I would have thought that one of the giveaways about it not being RipMapping (in quality mode at least) was the fact that it can do trilinear at the same time which Rip-maping doesn't...
(can anyone think of a way ripmapping and trilinear could operate?)
(can anyone think of a way ripmapping and trilinear could operate?)
