Pre-order X800 Pro - ?NDA? - 8 extreme / 12 normal PS pipes
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Thanks Volt and all else.volt said:Digi, 9 AM EST I guess
Hmmm, is that Chicago time? (Yes, I suck with timezones...I got enough trouble trying to keep track of what bloody day it is half the time!
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PatrickL said:PClabs is now saying that NDA will be lifted 4 May at 15 h. All that speculation will end, before next round
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Derek
DerekBaker said:PatrickL said:PClabs is now saying that NDA will be lifted 4 May at 15 h. All that speculation will end, before next round
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http://pclab.pl/art9890.html
Dave B(TotalVR)
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Did anyon else see the 48-1 losssless compression ratio for the z-buffer claim?
BS? perhaps only possible with 8x8 MSAA'ing turned on.
As for texture comression, I thought VQ never caught on because it took years to compress the textures, which was a pain for developers. Even though it was quicker to read and uncompress the VQ texture than reading the uncompressed variant, faster than uncompressing S3TC and offered better compression ratios at higher quality levels.
But S3TC could be forced in the drivers so you needed no application support.
BS? perhaps only possible with 8x8 MSAA'ing turned on.
As for texture comression, I thought VQ never caught on because it took years to compress the textures, which was a pain for developers. Even though it was quicker to read and uncompress the VQ texture than reading the uncompressed variant, faster than uncompressing S3TC and offered better compression ratios at higher quality levels.
But S3TC could be forced in the drivers so you needed no application support.
True, but I don't think it really hurt ATi. It just gave us all a lot to argue about and get hyped up for the real launch on Tuesday.tazdevl said:
Besides, I find it telling that ATi was able to keep as much secret for as long as they can. You can't do that with just threats, you need some goodwill for people to do that. 8)
I'm pretty sure it would've pissed Patti off as she was telling me this is exactly what she didn't want to see before the NDA's go up!
Oh man, I sure hope not!DaveBaumann said:
I like Patti, she's good people and has always been exceptionally kind and curteous to me. I'd have taken down my story about it if'n I had known it would make Patti pissed!
(I'm serious, I would have. That's not discriminating 'cause I like ATi, that's discriminating 'cause I like Patti and would have done it in a heartbeat had I known.
)Damn it, I KNEW I should have contacted them first on this and let them know...I KNEW it!
But no, it was a super-juicy story and I just HAD to post it up.
Damn it, now I'm feeling all lousy inside. :?
Time to re-examine some priorities I guess.
I dunno, the conspiracy theorist in me prefers to think that egomaniacal idiots do occassional do that with their huge corporations.PatrickL said:
Hell, I probably would.
DaveBaumann said:
And Steve as well.
I've been on their side of the fence. They've done such a good job keeping a lid on things, it's just sucks that it gets blown due to a merchant. Especially after all the planning. Takes some of the steam out of the launch.
How much you want to bet AllStarShop is either in the doghouse or ATI's lawyers are sending them a nicely phrased letter.
DaveBaumann said:
Oh come now, Dave. For weeks now the specs have been leaking like the Titanic right here on B3D. 16-pipe architecture with the ability to deactivate quads, extreme pipelines, full FP precision, lack of SM3.0 support and most recently temporal antialiasing have hardly been a secret. Seriously, who is going to visit that allstarshop page who hasn't already read page after page of "unofficial", though obviously reliable, info on R420 right here on these boards. The only surprising discovery was the price, and that's probably not representative of other vendors. Note that I am not complaining in any way, it's just that I think it would be a bit hypocritical to say that this vendor is responsible for whatever has leaked about R420 before its launch.
It wouldn't hurt my feelings none, their prices are insane.tazdevl said:
Also, if they have a higher price than ATi's MSRP than they really HAVE done ATi a disservice as I've heard nothing but complaints about a $500 mid-end card and how no one will pay $600 for an XT.
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