My video card is coming! My video card is coming!
 

I spit on nvidia! ATI forever!:D

:cool:

I don't spit on nvidia, but I still say
ATI forever! And Plutonium drivers too!!!:)

the worst mistake I ever made was switching from a GF2 to a Radeon1. I won't get burned by ATi again; nvidia for me.

I went from 3dfx (Long Live) to ATI. Never had driver problems, unstability, or bad performance. They only problem I did have is I couldn't run a couple demos, but my friend could with the same card. :(

I'll hafta dig up some links, but 500Mhz or 1Ghz DDR doesn't equal 48G bandwidth, its like 20 something. I don't know the formula for calculating bandwidth.

Also 20k+ 3dmark points? Come on we all now 3dmark is cpu limited, at default tests its not gonna be much faster if at all then the 9700.

If you want beefy 3dmarks then you will need [H]yperThreading!

1000 more points...
err wait was that 750 or 800 more? ;)

5000 [S]tevemarks extra!

my Trident ISA 1Meg will still own you

It can display 16.7 Million colors and full motion video!

I thought about waiting it out for NV30 but I decided that I couldnt wait that long :) So far I have tried 3dfx (1, 2, & 3), Nvidia, and now ATI. I can safely say now that very happy with my Radeon 9700 but still want to crank some more juice out of it. Maybe when I get done tweaking it all out, it will be JUST as fast as the NV30 :) Then I will be very happy :D

Otherwise I only had one complaint about ATI and their drivers and I hope that will be the last.

pay steve enough and he'll convince you all that the VLB is the best slot to use for graphics cards.

what are you talking about...VLB is the best.

* Goes into closet and comforts his box of VLB video cards.

Its okay, the bad man can't hurt you...

The first roundup of info is up:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6296

Note the lack of significant info at the less desirable websites...

I think you have an extra 'r' in there. Isn't it simply [H]ypeT[h]reading now?

NV30, AKA GeForceFX, aka TI 4600