Recent content by PATSCRU

Guys, ease up will ya? With all the 'soft launches' we have to deal with in hardware land, you'd think you'd be a little easier on a rough start for Cuil. Sure it's not perfect, but it's their first day and they're trying to do something different, and i like where they're going. In a world...

Kyle or anyone else, what mobo's are you referring to when you say "500 MHz+ barn burner?"

Thank you. There is no reason for ATI to up the bit depth on their memory bandwitdth on a bus that's not being saturated. Unless of course you don't know what you're talking about and think that higher specs always lead to better real world performance.

Yeah, i play ETQW all the time on my 3870...There were some weird artifacting issues occassionally, but those were fixed with updates. I'd use drivercleaner to reinstall your catalyst suite.

It gets worse: a judge made public an email from the anti-trust suit against NV and ATI. The email was from NV's senior VP of marketing to ATI's president and COO that was attempting to get the two companies to see "eye to eye on prices". The story can be found here.

If i have a 3870 now, should i wait before upgrading to a 4850,4870? Methinks these price wars and NV's die-shrink will yield some amazing deals soon.

QFT, I was looking so forward to UT3, and when i got it i was so disappointed at how many rough edges and quality issues there were. It's really unfortunate because the core gameplay is there. I compared it to Gears on PC, and how refined that experience was, and i became convinced that...

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3326 here's the anandtech preview of the nehalem from a month ago...i think it's still too early to take either of the reviews too seriously, but anand's article is a little more in-depth. hopefully they do deliver that, and...

geoking, could you point me to some 8/8x crossfirex setup benchies? I heard that crossfirex really needs 2 16x pci-e lanes. I'm currently on a 975x board and would like to know if i'd need to jump to a crossfirex compatible board to take full advantage of the new cards in xfire.

My fanboys, let me show you them. In case you missed the train, the Core2's are awesome and there's nothing close to them in the desktop or enthusiast markets. I'm no intel fanboy, I had an Athlon XP, but give credit where credit is due and stop flaming.

Having great games with low system requirements is A GOOD THING for PC gaming. Getting mad at a dev for not making high spec games that can tax your $600 card is ridiculous. I know you need justifications for spending that much on a card, but there are still many of us who want great games...

wow, applying for and getting a job at BB just for the 4850 discount...that's dedication.

Yes, yes you do.

A couple things... 1: I was under the impression that Crysis was one of the worst games for multi-gpu scaling. 2. I remember from the 3800 series that 3 gpus was the most efficient solution (i.e. a 3870X2 and a 3870). 3. One test one configuration is not what I'd call anything comprehensive.

Regarding the 280 vs. 4870 argument, i believe the first Chinese review of the 4870 said it best....with the 4870, you get 80-90% of the performance of the 280 at 46% of the price.