/me chuckes at having decided to buy the Dell XPS with the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro instead of an nVidia

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]
>
>
>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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