Radeon9500 O/Cing o_O

[Brent]

Anand posted the system specs he used, half way down this thread: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=44&threadid=896802

 

[Reverend]

I better not talk anymore about this as it's considered spam.

<sigh>

No Rev, stop being silly.

I'm not being "silly", I'm just following your "suggestion" of not talking about another site's promised-but-non-existant review. Nothing wrong with that, right?

 

[John Reynolds]

I better not talk anymore about this as it's considered spam.

<sigh>

No Rev, stop being silly.

I'm not being "silly", I'm just following your "suggestion" of not talking about another site's promised-but-non-existant review. Nothing wrong with that, right?

Well, I think anyone would differentiate between a poster asking when a review is going up and answering them (I've been curious myself) and the actual reviewer starting 2-3 new threads on an unpublished review.

 

[Clashman]

You'd think that the 128bit interface and slower clockspeeds of the 9500 pro/non pro would warrant the inclusion of 16bit AA in the drivers. As games develop there may be a need to run in 16 bit if you want to do AA at an acceptable performance.

 

[Reverend]

Well, I think anyone would differentiate between a poster asking when a review is going up and answering them (I've been curious myself) and the actual reviewer starting 2-3 new threads on an unpublished review.

How quickly friends seem to disappear. And how quickly a site can become a "competitive site" instead of being a friendly place of discussion regardless of who-from-which-website is posting.

Remember, the majority of Net users are US citizens and someone said that more than half of US citizens thought humans existed with dinos (that stat doesn't exist in Malaysia). You really can't tell who-on-the-Net can differentiate what nowadays...

FWIW, VE's engine is being tweaked further. It is unfortunate it is happening the same time as when I'm doing the 9700Pro review but there you go. As for "when", it is when the updated engine (and updated editor) is done. UT2003, F1 2001/2, TW2002, Mafia, NOLF2, Tenebrae... oh wait, now this sentence is spam!

 

[John Reynolds]

Remember, the majority of Net users are US citizens and someone said that more than half of US citizens thought humans existed with dinos (that stat doesn't exist in Malaysia). You really can't tell who-on-the-Net can differentiate what nowadays...

The smiley doesn't really negate the less-than-subtle (and quite unnecessary) insult, Rev. Regardless, I look forward to reading your review since you always do a good job, IMO.

 

[Dave Baumann]

You really can't tell who-on-the-Net can differentiate what nowadays...

You're absolutely right. When someone from another sight see's your sig and posting about upcoming reviews you are doing for that the site in your sig whats it going to tell them? That it must be fine for them to do the same?

 

[Reverend]

It's not an insult John... it's a statement of my surprise. But enough with this.

 

[Foodman]

I really look forward to your R9700 review, Rev. (lololol alteration)

Futher:

For someone looking at a card to replace my Ti200, the 9500 Pro looks so incredible. It's notably faster than the 4600 with 2x AA and AF on, which is how I prefer to run things (kind of slowly right now). Its got dualhead and 2d quality which is supposed to be superior to nVidia's.

Right now my 2nd 17" is just sitting because my PCI vidcard died.

I just hope it's well out the door after November.

 

[Humus]

Remember, the majority of Net users are US citizens <snip>

Actually, rougly 25% of the net users are US citizens. Also, 82% of the global bandwidth is in Europe

 

[Joe DeFuria]

82% of the global bandwidth is in Europe

Actually, it said:

82% of the cross-border (or "international border") bandwidth

Cross-border is not defined meaningfully that I can tell: cross-country border? Cross-continent border? Though it appears to me that this only indicates that the U.S. browses to most of its content from U.S. sources, and Europe gets most of its content from non European sources. Doesn't really say who uses more more bandwidth in general.

In any case.....it looks like the U.S. has most of the content that the 'net wants.

 

[tamattack]

...anybody should consider waiting at least a month or two...

You've been saying this with respect to ATI cards since August. When does it end?

 

[Xmas]

Cross-border is not defined meaningfully that I can tell: cross-country border? Cross-continent border? Though it appears to me that this only indicates that the U.S. browses to most of its content from U.S. sources, and Europe gets most of its content from non European sources. Doesn't really say who uses more more bandwidth in general.

In any case.....it looks like the U.S. has most of the content that the 'net wants.

Uhm, if it was cross-continent, no figure could be bigger than the sum of the other four
And it says about bandwidth, not traffic.

 

[Randell]

[quote="Joe DeFuria]In any case.....it looks like the U.S. has most of the content that the 'net wants. [/quote]

aye because you guys host most of the porn sites

 

[Joe DeFuria]

Of course! Capitalism at it's finest!

 

[Randell]

indeed it is 8)

 

[martrox]

and just what does the number of porn sites have to do with overclocking the 9500?

 

[Joe DeFuria]

and just what does the number of porn sites have to do with overclocking the 9500?

If you insist....

The 9500 contains the Videoshader technology of the R-300. So all those "compressed" and blocky porn videos can get smoothed out. As we know, pixel shading performance can depend on the clock speed, so....

The more you overclock the 9500, the better the porn experience at all those websites!

 

[martrox]

and just what does the number of porn sites have to do with overclocking the 9500?

If you insist....

The 9500 contains the Videoshader technology of the R-300. So all those "compressed" and blocky porn videos can get smoothed out. As we know, pixel shading performance can depend on the clock speed, so....

The more you overclock the 9500, the better the porn experience at all those websites!

Jeez, can't wait for the new improved woody version of the 9500.......

 

[Humus]

and just what does the number of porn sites have to do with overclocking the 9500?

Quote from Rage3D.com:

i still have an 8500 and it kicks a gf4 4400's ass in the same system. a gf4 may get like 10fps more in the latest propaghanda assed war game, but porno looks better with an 8500 and thats what matters.