[phreak]

i hear the NV30 will also support glide

[Redfang]

Originally posted by PhReAk
i hear the NV30 will also support glide

 
Rumors, rumors. It's vaporware at the moment, and it might not be coming for Christmas. TSMC (the manufacter for nVidia based cards) is having problems with .13nm process...
 

Originally posted by Thunder
True that, although I myself just bought a GeForce4 4600 the latest NV30s are imminent... but I couldn't be bothered to wait... and I'm glad I've got my card

 
You weren't stupid... NV30s are not imminent, or at least it seems like that now.

If you want the fastest card now, get the Radeon 9700PRO. It supports DX9.0 and is about 50% faster in UT2K3 with 1600x1200, and with 4X anti-aliasing on about 150-250% or so faster.
 
Edit: Corrected some stuff.

[Fry_Day]

Bah, people don't need all that power. What they do need is to convince OEMs to ship with GeForce4 Ti4200s and Radeon 9000Pros instead of integrated graphics chips. I mean, the problem with PCs is that you need to support old PCs, and crappy OEM PCs, or else the graphics would far surpass consoles.

[CP5670]

Since the normal price is most definitely NOT 400$, I'm not sure (Look hard enough and you could pick one up for a bit more than 300$). I heartily suggest that you wait till closer to X-mas before you buy a graphics card, since by then the NV30 should be in the market, and GeForce4 prices will drop.

Yeah, I just saw it for $400 in local stores, but it is usually available for less online. I guess I will just wait for a while then; it really depends on how well UT2003 and Unreal 2 run.

[wEvil]

My machine:

2x Athlon 1ghz
Tyan Tiger MP
512mb PC2100
3Dlabs wildcat VP760
Adaptec 29160n
2x IBM Ultrastar 36LZX SCA drives.

Spec_Viewperf 6.1.2: (scores in FPS)

This is an OpenGL benchmark so its only good if you're going to be working on a wrapper or a port.

---------- SUM_RESULTS\AWADVS\SUMMARY.TXT
AWadvs-04 Weighted Geometric Mean = 135.0

---------- SUM_RESULTS\DRV\SUMMARY.TXT
DRV-07 Weighted Geometric Mean = 15.65

again, test did not display anything except a few clipped polygons.

---------- SUM_RESULTS\DX\SUMMARY.TXT
DX-06 Weighted Geometric Mean = 32.33

---------- SUM_RESULTS\LIGHT\SUMMARY.TXT
Light-04 Weighted Geometric Mean = 6.903

---------- SUM_RESULTS\MEDMCAD\SUMMARY.TXT
MedMCAD-01 Weighted Geometric Mean = 26.72

---------- SUM_RESULTS\PROCDRS\SUMMARY.TXT
ProCDRS-03 Weighted Geometric Mean = 65.63


Note the drivers must still be considered "beta" and the architecture, like the Matrox Parhelia and the new ATI 9700 part are heavily dependant on driver tweaks to perform well.

I'll post the 3Dmark scores when I can get a copy.

[Taristin]

Lol.. I actually got about a 1200 once, but I was using a crappy Vanta LT 8Mb...

I have:

Duron 600Mhz
128 Ram
Gefore 2 Mx/Mx400 (now I have it, not then...)

[Nuke]

the long awaited nukebomb overkill 3d mark results from 2 machines.

the slow one first

64mb (sdram) geforce 4 mx420 (pny verto)
p4 1.7ghz
256mb pc2100 (ddr)
msi 645e max mobo
score: 3781

and now the laptop (not the slow one)

64mb (ddr) ati radeon mobility 9000
p4 2.4ghz
256mb pc2100 (ddr)
laptop model mtech5600 (mobo unknown)
score: 4391

benchmarks collected from 3dmark 2001, default settings.

[Stunaep]

Specs:

512megs of 333mhz DDRAM
128mb GeForce4 Ti4200
2.0A ghz Pentium 4 CPU
3dmark 2001 SE default settings

Score: 9427

YEAH, BABY, YEAH!

[diamondgeezer]

Why the MX bashing? over at Mad Onion, they've got the GF4 MX460 rated as number ten in the top ten graphics cards. Not bard for a budget piece of kit, I feel.

I paid 85 squids for my GF4 MX440 about six months ago, and I'm well chuffed with it - though admitedly, when I'm rolling in cash I'm going to get a big fat Ti4600 or better, just for the sheer hell of it


[EDIT] And have I missed somthing, or is this in the SCP forum for a reason...

[Ulundel]

Celeron 600 MHz
256 mb sdram
64 mb ddram GeForce 4 MX 440

Default settings score: 2548

[01010]

Athlon XP 2.1  GHZ
Nvidia GF4Ti4200 64mbDDR
512mb 133mhz SDRam

9582 @ 1024x768 32bit.

Not bad, not bad.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
[EDIT] And have I missed somthing, or is this in the SCP forum for a reason...

So programmers can get a feel for the speed and power of an average FS players' computer.

[Nuke]

who else has a laptop that beats 4391? not bad for something that follows my ass around everywhere i go. that radeon burns up my batteries in about an hour though.

[Nuke]

i take that back, what i really meant was who has a laptop that rus with a score higher than 6300:eek2:. after a bit of tweaking and flaying of unused services and startup items, i got a result over 6000. this little machine only cost me $1860, and it kicks ass! whoever said games and laptops dont mix is full of fecal matter.

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by Sandwich
So programmers can get a feel for the speed and power of an average FS players' computer.

Ah

Originally posted by Nuke
i take that back, what i really meant was who has a laptop that rus with a score higher than 6300:eek2:. after a bit of tweaking and flaying of unused services and startup items, i got a result over 6000. this little machine only cost me $1860, and it kicks ass! whoever said games and laptops dont mix is full of fecal matter.

Ye gods, that beats my desktop! I got something like 5300, give or take... I managed to squeze out about 8% more by overclocking the video card, but then I started getting flickering textures and stuff, so I disabled the overclocked settings. Meh... I'll get meself a Radeon 9700 Pro, one of these days

[Nuke]

i just put together a 2ghz dual xeon server with 2 gigs of ram, too bad i left my freespace cd at home:(