X1900 Article Typos Thread

[Dave Baumann]

Insert any X1900 review typos / issues in this thread please.

 

[Sunrise]

Section: Adaptive AA and HQ AF - first sentence

The Radeon X1000 series, inclusive of the X1900, series have two new image quality settings officially available two them.

A funny one, but not intended, i assume.

Corrected: The Radeon X1000 series, inclusive of the X1900, have two new image quality settings officially available to them.

 

[Joe DeFuria]

At the end of the article, when clicking on the link to bring you to the discussion forum, the link goes to the X1300/X1600 review thread, instead of the X1900 thread.

 

[digitalwanderer]

Dave, y'all want someone to proofread your articles for you before you post them up?

It's how we do it over at EB, but we're weird and have a lot more people....if you ever need a hand with it I'm always up for a day or two early preview and me Mum was an english professor.

(Well, before she went into law she was...that's why me english is all so goodly. )

 

[thana]

in the article-news on the frontpage:

The roadmaps indicated a configuration of 16-1-1-1 for R530 and 16-1-3-1 for R580.

second page, fourth paragraph: this sentence should probably be restructured with less repetitions

Although floating point ALU's can be fairly costly in terms of transistors (although, proportionally not so much now with smaller silicon processes), they are fairly cheap in terms of bandwidth utilisation, unlike textures which are much more expensive in terms of bandwidth utilisation.

paragraph directly below:

ATI also suggests only a minority of rendered pixels have high levels of filtering on them,

page 4, sixth paragraph, last sentence:

(although, in both cases, some of those operations will be hidden a little by the instruction scheduler since is it reliant on both texture and math operations).

page 20, every table has this error:

% Diff
X1900 XTX to X1900 XT

next page, first sentence:

The Radeon X1000 series, inclusive of the X1900, series have two new image quality settings officially available two them.

same paragraph, third sentence:

Second, an Adaptive AA mode, which can selectively change between Multi-Sampling on opaque textures and Super-Sampling on transparent textures, thus AntiAliasing areas of the scene that use Alpha textures, such as a chain fence, without the full performance impact of multi-sampling FSAA.

should be super-sampling

next sentence:

For more details and sample quality outputs of these new settings can be read in our X1800 article here for High Quality Anisotropic Filtering, and here for Adaptive AA.

page 23, first diagram: the 1800XT XF outperforms the X1900XT XF? is this a typo in the table? if not, how can this be explained?

below the diagram:

As HQ AF and adaptive AA both increase the texture load, the the performance of the X1900 Crossfire is brought in line with the X1800 Crossfire system a little more.

last sentence on that page:

In this case, the bandwidth demands of 12x AA (6x per board) is enough to offset the extra texturing demands so there really is no performance difference between the default and high quality settings with the X1900 here.

 

[tEd]

In the HDR farcry 4xAA/8xAF chart it says 2xAA/4xAF instead of 4xAA/8xAF

 

[Kurt]

FAR CRY HDR TEST, first paragraph should probably read "..., however its support..." The next sentence starts with 'however' too, which sounds a bit odd.

There should be a comma after "... roughly where we would expect it to be..."

Same page, last paragraph, 'excepct'.

SPLINTER CELL

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory still utilises the Unreal Engine, like its predecessors, however it has been significantly updated and alongside, a pixel shader 1.1 path, includes a Shader Model 3.0 path with additional options available with that a subsequent patch has been added to provide all the features of the SM3.0 path for SM2.0 boards

I would break that sentence up or rephrase it, so it makes more (any?) sense.

Same page, should probably read "... by virtue of its greater fragment...."

Same page ".... shader lengths in this title are actually one of the longer ones..." should probably be 'some of the longer ones'


F.E.A.R

The lighting model employed uses a per pixel Blinn-Phong rendering model capable passes for emissive glow effects. ---- Something seems amiss.

 

[Rodéric]

Although no typo, there is an awefull lot of "of course" (6) in the last page...