This was based largely on some previous threads where 'Gel and others pointed out the FX's flaws.
:-)
Ah, what a great group of peeps this list be !!
-Ben
>Apparently..they still suck ;-)
>
>These new cards still don't provide a good reason to buy this crop of
>Nvidia cards over the ATIs.
>
>In Max Payne2...another Direct X 9 game (the ones the Nvidia DX9 cards
>have all the trouble with *chuckle*)..the new ATI 9800XT more than
>doubles the framerate of the latest Nvidia offerings.
>
>This from a comparison based on HALO...another DX9 game:
>
>"With framerate dips below 30FPS constantly and into the teens, the
>GeForceFX 5950Ultra is simply not going to provide the same level of
>gaming experience as the ATI Radeon 9800XT will provide."
>
>As past reviewers have said, new drivers and increased clock speed won't
>help Nvidia cards, or their owners. Nvidia needs to go back to silicon
>and re-engineer their hardware to work the way DX9 expects a card to
>work.
>
>I don't see why anyone with a little bit of knowledge would buy an
>Nvidia card now if they want to run the latest DX9 software.
>
>-Gel
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Haggerty, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
>http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1067104742.html
>
>Links to benchmarks on the FX 5700U and 5950U, a mix of the good and the
>bad.
>
>M
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