http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1955
i don't even want to try and recap all the slant in that article.
i don't even want to try and recap all the slant in that article.
more evidence that anandtech is in nvidia's pocket
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Sayeth Mr."TR:AOD benchmark isn't a good indicator of nVidia's performance"....Bjorn said:
Oooh, recap! Recap! It's fun. You might have spotted once that I missed.
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Derek Wilson - Anandtech Comments said:
Wow...what a novel idea! Let's do our best to highlight similarities in cards, not differences. This simplifies our decision making immensely!! "Eh...just pick any card....they all perform about the same!"
Now we're talking!!
Let's round up all these graphics cards, and run all these tests....such that we don't actually test the GPUs!! Pure Genius!
I don't think I've ever witnessed a more asinine testing methodology...
Meh, they went through all that trouble overclocking and they didn't even include an HIS 9800 with IceQ. Given how unbelievably well the HIS 9600XT performed, what was the hold up? And don't tell me AT is lacking the funds to purchase these cards themselves.
cthellis42 said:Oooh, recap! Recap! It's fun. You might have spotted once that I missed.
lol, fair enough, actually others have pointed out most of my gripes but i suppose i should add to the list. first and formost, he goes though the trouble of displaying core temps but never bothers to mention the very perentant fact that nvidia underclocks and undervolts their cards when running in 2d mode were all the temprature readings were taken. also, he speaks about his overclocking tests as if the results for the indivdual cards he tested are directly indicative of the products as a whole.
add it all up and the article is nothing more than a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.
*COUGH-COUGH*"Brilinear is just as good as trilinear" POS/BS article*COUGH-COUGH*Entropy said:Brent, to my knowledge, never produced anything as bad as that.Quitch said:It's the way [H] was last year, without the wild mood swings
speaking of brilinear/trilinear, anyone know if you can get full trilinear in UT2003 with an ATI card? yup, kinda random, but I need a full trilinear image. NV is making me crazy with the differences between app and CP AF that make no sense.digitalwanderer said:*COUGH-COUGH*"Brilinear is just as good as trilinear" POS/BS article*COUGH-COUGH*Entropy said:Brent, to my knowledge, never produced anything as bad as that.Quitch said:It's the way [H] was last year, without the wild mood swings
The Baron said:speaking of brilinear/trilinear, anyone know if you can get full trilinear in UT2003 with an ATI card? yup, kinda random, but I need a full trilinear image. NV is making me crazy with the differences between app and CP AF that make no sense.digitalwanderer said:*COUGH-COUGH*"Brilinear is just as good as trilinear" POS/BS article*COUGH-COUGH*Entropy said:Brent, to my knowledge, never produced anything as bad as that.Quitch said:It's the way [H] was last year, without the wild mood swings
Usually leaving the application if it provides tri and aniso settings should take care of it. If you're still not getting there you can force trilinear on all texturing stages with rTool:
http://www.3dcenter.de/downloads/rtool.php
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The Baron said:
Yeah, set the ATI control panel to "application preference" and then (IIRC) in your system\ut2003.ini file set "UseTrilinear=True"
digitalwanderer said:*COUGH-COUGH*"Brilinear is just as good as trilinear" POS/BS article*COUGH-COUGH*Entropy said:Brent, to my knowledge, never produced anything as bad as that.Quitch said:It's the way [H] was last year, without the wild mood swings
ahhh Ratfarts
and i never said that!
Or aTuner.
Ailuros said:The Baron said:speaking of brilinear/trilinear, anyone know if you can get full trilinear in UT2003 with an ATI card? yup, kinda random, but I need a full trilinear image. NV is making me crazy with the differences between app and CP AF that make no sense.digitalwanderer said:*COUGH-COUGH*"Brilinear is just as good as trilinear" POS/BS article*COUGH-COUGH*Entropy said:Brent, to my knowledge, never produced anything as bad as that.Quitch said:It's the way [H] was last year, without the wild mood swings
Usually leaving the application if it provides tri and aniso settings should take care of it. If you're still not getting there you can force trilinear on all texturing stages with rTool:
http://www.3dcenter.de/downloads/rtool.php
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I like this Gem in the Final Words...
" The fact that the 9800XT doesn't benefit as much from overclocking is interesting, especially since the 9600XT seems to benefit so much from it."
Duh!!! It wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that the 9600XT uses a Low k .13 process to manufacture the cores, as opposed to the older .15 process used by the 9800XT could it?
and this...
"Core processing power is becoming more and more important, and with shader intensive DX9 games on their way, enthusiasts are going to want more and more power from their graphics cards."
So maybe it would be nice to actually test those DX9 functions somehow?
Halo, JK, and UT are sort of poor examples to use to show that future potential.
Anand's articles' educational value surely suck, but the Entertainment factor is off the scale. What a joke.
" The fact that the 9800XT doesn't benefit as much from overclocking is interesting, especially since the 9600XT seems to benefit so much from it."
Duh!!! It wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that the 9600XT uses a Low k .13 process to manufacture the cores, as opposed to the older .15 process used by the 9800XT could it?
and this...
"Core processing power is becoming more and more important, and with shader intensive DX9 games on their way, enthusiasts are going to want more and more power from their graphics cards."
So maybe it would be nice to actually test those DX9 functions somehow?
Halo, JK, and UT are sort of poor examples to use to show that future potential.
Anand's articles' educational value surely suck, but the Entertainment factor is off the scale. What a joke.
