I've been working feverishly on this HL2 CPU Scaling article, I was hoping to have it done by the end of this week but it will be done (for sure) for publication next week. I've done CPU scaling charts for about half of the cards now, I've only got 1 more PCI Express card and then I move onto the AGP cards. Depending on how much time I have (and/or how sick of Half Life 2 benchmarking I am), I may do some GPU/memory bandwidth scaling on a card per card basis as well to find out where the limitations with the various GPUs lie.
It looks like there finally may be some resolution to the NVIDIA's Video Processor fiasco, I'm hoping for a public release of the driver by the end of this year but that's pure speculation on my part.
Next week I'll be making a trip up to ATI's Mac offices in Massachusetts, which will mark the first Mac related AT trip I will have ever made. Let me know if there are any questions the Mac community would like to have answered by ATI and I'll do my best to get them answered for you all. I do have two Mac articles in the works, I'm just at a loss for time right now but one of them will be published this month.
That's about all for now, for some reason it feels like a Friday but it's only a Wednesday. If I were still in school I would've hated that feeling and even now I still long for the weekends, it's just a different type of longing. Very difficult to explain, I'll try to do so later.
Take care...
It looks like there finally may be some resolution to the NVIDIA's Video Processor fiasco, I'm hoping for a public release of the driver by the end of this year but that's pure speculation on my part.
Next week I'll be making a trip up to ATI's Mac offices in Massachusetts, which will mark the first Mac related AT trip I will have ever made. Let me know if there are any questions the Mac community would like to have answered by ATI and I'll do my best to get them answered for you all. I do have two Mac articles in the works, I'm just at a loss for time right now but one of them will be published this month.
That's about all for now, for some reason it feels like a Friday but it's only a Wednesday. If I were still in school I would've hated that feeling and even now I still long for the weekends, it's just a different type of longing. Very difficult to explain, I'll try to do so later.
Take care...
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methodical - Tuesday, December 14, 2004 - link
Ask the mac ati division on the price differential for cards with the same chipset.I know it'll be higher, simply to pay for the cost of having a mac division... but still... at a certain point... eh...
also, Apple is definently going to go PCI-E. The question is when.. next year is most likely. Simply because the graphics cards are going PCI-E... and it could very well make the motherboards cheaper. I think apple uses lots of expensive 6 layer boards.. and those pcix slots aren't dirt-cheap to implement either...
the mac community is more than ready for a graphics benchmarking software package. when will one exist, I wonder... any insights into this?
a2daj - Monday, December 13, 2004 - link
The Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Special edition is a Mac exclusive card. It looks to be based off of the same board design used with the OEM Radeon 9800 Pro that came with the G5s.The Mac Radeon 9200 PCI card doesn't look to have an equivalent card in ATI's PCI 9200 section (DVI, SVideo, VGA).
ATI demoed a G5 running an X800 with an 23" ADC Cinema Display and a 30" DVI Cinema Display at the Digital Life expo back in October. That means they have created an X800 with an ADC and a dual link DVI connector. Of course, no news on a release date... but I doubt you'll see that same card available as a PC model.
The_Necromacer - Monday, December 13, 2004 - link
OK, search on google for alexander central school, then email one of the teachers and ask about Will Taylor, secondly, yes i have a fucked up mind but fuck off, at least i am only 18 and not 45, and atleast i dont have have a gut and a wife that wont give me any, and a dell for a computer, (man did you get riped off)SO you know what fuck off and get off this web site, wtf you've been here since 1999, holy shit you really have no LIFE, not that you know anything about that, damn english
Dee - Sunday, December 12, 2004 - link
Dude, why in the world do you have to create so many posts? Can't you just get your point across in one post?Seriously though, I don't think you have 3.8 or 3.9 GPA considering your spelling errors and grammatical errors (I know mine are not perfect, so don't even bother editing out my post).
Regardless, you sound like a genius but then why is it that all your questions above and comments are pure illogical and doesn't not make any sense?
Seriously, you certainly don't sound the guy who have accomplished so much in your lifetime and I am having a hard believing anything you say. You would bet that a guy with 3.8GPA would have a bit more mind to do a serach on AMD 3000+ review on AnandTech, but it doesn't seem that way.
Your life must be really screwed since you are having so much fun arguing with me. It's alright man, I guess I understand you now. Your life sucks and you want someone to take care of you. What, no girlfriend either...parents abandoned you...
Whatever, stop lying about your achievements. Dumbass...
The_Necromancer - Sunday, December 12, 2004 - link
Therefore no soap box for you to stand on.The_Necromancer - Sunday, December 12, 2004 - link
Ok Dee, first of all I would like to say that I got about $20,000 worth of scholarships and I was the solitarian but got cheated out of the valedictorian because I took calc 1 and the valedictorian did not and beat me by 2 hundredths of a point, Alexander central school look on google, secondly, that was for my roommates Pc, which is a piece of crap and lags in lan games, Thirdly I am the proud owner of a 3500-amd 64, 1 gig of ram, 9600 xt ultra, DVD burner, cd-rw, and a dell ultra sharp 17" which is a nice motherfucker, Finally my classes end next week and no I will not have a 4.0 that is almost impossible if you are going for a real degree, the only way you could get a 4.0 is in liberal arts (you know the one you had at a junior college) which is a useless and an easy degree, I will probably have a 3.8 or 3.9 something b/c I think I got a B+ in "the history of Ireland" and a B+ in ea235 which is a engineering coarse, and on a side note I am going for my aerospace engineering degree so put that in your pipe and smoke it, and get off your soap box, oh yeah that’s right You don’t bathe!Dee - Sunday, December 12, 2004 - link
Oh my God! Do you really have to have four posts to get your point across. $150.00 GPUs are old news. What's the point of testing them? If 6800 vanilla gets 40FPS in certain games at 1600x1200 with AA and AF turned on, everyone should know that a card half of 6800 vanilla's cost would results in unplayable scenarios for latest games.Why don't you invest in Dell since it seems like you don't have a job, aren't willing to work hard and giving unnecessary excuses for your software piracy addiction?
Secondly, don't recommend stupid article ideas to Anand and considering that you are nothing but a low-life, you should keep it to yourself.
Also, you idiot, here's the article on AMD 3000+:
http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=22...
If only you bothered to do a bit of searching on the site.
Seems like all your screws are a bit loose - might want to get them tightened.
You are a low-life, you fucking bastard. You are not the only one who goes to college, there are thousands of others. How can they afford stuff that you can't? Who are you to generalize that majority of college goes can't afford high-end GPUs and CPUs?
Just because you didn't get any scholorships, your GPA is 1.5 and nobody likes you doesn't mean all college goers have the same problems?
Listen kid, stop spamming this site. Get lost you low life excuse kiddie.
The_Necromancer - Sunday, December 12, 2004 - link
Dammnit I cant spell anying right.The_Necromancer - Sunday, December 12, 2004 - link
Sorry for my spelling error infested blog above-for an edited version read below>>>Hey anand, How about we benchmark more $150 gpus, seeing as how a huge gaming audience is between 18-22 therefore going to college and unable to afford such luxuries as $500 gpus. Also lets test how 3000-939 pin amd, goes against the other cpus of higher and lower price range,
The cheap bum-a.k.a__---The_Necromancer
The_Necromancer - Sunday, December 12, 2004 - link
Hey anand, How about we benchmark more $150 gpus, seeing as how a huge gaming audiance is between 18-22 therefore going to college and unable to afford such luggerises as $500 gpus. Also lets test how 3000-939pin amd, goes against the other cpus of higher and lower price range,The cheap bum-aka__---The_Necromancer