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Offline Krackers87

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OK, but I wanna be the boot. ;)

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Offline Grey Wolf

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I hope that is false. If it is true and Nvidia goes under because of it, ATI will become a monopoly in the gaming video cards industry and that could be devastating. Competition between companies is important and something you don’t want to lose.
Actually, VIA is in the process of releasing a decent video card (Deltachrome) which should compete well in the mid-range market, and XGI has started producing the Volari video cards, which should compete on all levels (With the V5, V8, V5 Duo, and V8 Duo). Which will make it 3 large video card presences with good cards in all price brackets (nVidia, ATI, and XGI) and 4 companies for mid-range cards. This will pad the market in the event of one of the two giants collapsing.
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Offline Flipside

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I'll keep the MX440 for now to be honest, I haven't come across many problems with it at all. If it becomes a problem I'll replace it :D

As for Nvidia doing dodgy things as far as providing information is concerned..... isn't Direct X a MICROSOFT subsidiary??

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Offline diamondgeezer

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I'll keep the MX440 for now to be honest, I haven't come across many problems with it at all. If it becomes a problem I'll replace it :D

You'd be suprised. I was quite content with my MX440 until I found a Ti42 for 60 squids and made the swap. The difference was blatantly noticeable, 'specially where fancier stuff like paritcles and smoke were concerned. Course having paid 60 squids for it, it died and took my CPU with it. But that gave me an excuse to get a 4800... now that's *****in'  fast :nod:

 

Offline Grey Wolf

I wish that the Ti4200 was a bit faster with particle rendering, it's the only problem I really have with it (Other than the fact I went for the 64MB version.) Mine is quite nice though. Mine overclocks quite well (up to 308/614) and has BGA ram, an unusual thing to find in a Ti4200.
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You'd be suprised. I was quite content with my MX440 until I found a Ti42 for 60 squids and made the swap. The difference was blatantly noticeable, 'specially where fancier stuff like paritcles and smoke were concerned. Course having paid 60 squids for it, it died and took my CPU with it. But that gave me an excuse to get a 4800... now that's *****in'  fast :nod:


ROFL - Well, yes, my Bro's Radeon thingy (can't remember the number) wees all over mine when there are lots of bitmaps and particles going on, ATI certainly have the edge there ;)

Still, playing HW2 earlier and it (the GeForce) was getting jerky on 800 x 600!! That's very very nearly a decent excuse....... :D

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Offline Grey Wolf

What GeForce do you have, Flipside? If it's a GF4 MX, then you can't expect good framerates out of it since it's really a GF2 MX with HT&L. And if it's a GF4 Ti, then your computer is screwed up.
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Offline Setekh

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OK, but I wanna be the boot. ;)

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That elicited a laugh out of me. Well done. :D
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They make pretty nice chipsets for motherboards. Those of you with an NForce 2 board will know what I mean :) They do a fair few other things too IIRC.


nForce2 is a decent chipset (best the Athlon has ever seen) but the drivers, particularly in the IDE area, need a lot of work.
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What GeForce do you have, Flipside? If it's a GF4 MX, then you can't expect good framerates out of it since it's really a GF2 MX with HT&L. And if it's a GF4 Ti, then your computer is screwed up.


Yep, it's an MX, normally it behaves perfectly well, but I must admit, reading my way through these posts is slowly convincing me that an upgrade would certainly be in order soon ;)

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Offline Kosh

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For the last time. That's an entirely unconfirmed report from someone who is reportedly is full of BS. If you use that as your criteria for choosing a card, well.....


nVidia was caught red handed cheating in at least one benchmark big time.

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nForce2 is a decent chipset (best the Athlon has ever seen)


It's most certainly better than the nForce 1 was.
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Offline Shrike

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nVidia was caught red handed cheating in at least one benchmark big time.
And ATI hasn't done it either?  Everyone cooks their books.  Get a card that works for you, don't listen to some halfassed babble you hear on the net.
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ATI and Nvidia where both caught cheating on 3Dmark03.

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Can't even get a graphics card I can trust, these days. :sigh:
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Offline Turnsky

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Can't even get a graphics card I can trust, these days. :sigh:


Bah.. wait for an Independant test ;)
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Offline redmenace

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I think the tests at toms hardware guide are independant enough.
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Offline Grey Wolf

Tom's is crap. Read their A64 review to see what I mean. They're the only hardware site to review it and not give it a good score. They also used better timings and better RAM on the P4 than on the A64 3200+, where there was no reason to do that whatsoever. A very biased review.
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