Recent content by fodd3r

nvidia's design is lame. it's getting transistor happy and they're chips are getting far too complex. it's pretty clear that nvidia is really a bunch of engineers recruited from sgi --nvidia stole a fair bit of talent from them, stupid sgi, they're just like micron and xerox, amazing...

i'd have to agree nvidia is rather transistor happy, just like amd. ps: last i checked amd is the brute force not intel. don't quote 3dnow to me, it was an excuse for a weak fpu and not to mention it is largely a rehash of mmx.

hardware, you're a moron, you really are. do us all a favour and never reproduce. you start this thread and all it is is flame bait. you haven't even made a point, except how big a fool you are. so what if dave is biased, you push the the opposing extreme to new heights. especially seeing...

the reason t&l sucks under dx7 is not because it's hard to implement, it's because you only have very limited capabilities. basically it's all static objects. so you can make the object bigger, smaller, move it in, move it out, move it side to side, rotate it. that's about it. but you...

matrox or nvidia. both companies proved good linux support. i'm not too sure of matrox's win2k performance.

the geforce ddr will likely run the game okay. i'm thinking 640*480*32, with a good amount of the eye candy.

it's using a completely reworked q3 engine. i doubt it'll run great on a gts.

your 500mhz cpu won't make good use of those high powered cards, i suggest you pick up a radeon 32 meg ddr or sdr with a rebate or go for the geforce mx.

the gamecubes gpu runs at 202 mhz, i believe. the embedded sram is synced, to my knowledge. so the 200mhz 1t-sram is feasible. as for how many watts this thing will need, i'm not sure but a hybrid design could be done. where the embedded memory uses a slightly lower micron process...

the only reason the nvidia chips haven't been recommended is simply due to the bad 2d image quilty, 3dfx's isn't that great either. ati is your best bet, you'll want sharp text and good refresh rates.

2 things. first, this sram isn't running at the 450 mhz the xeon is pulling. second, the gamecube uses a much larger embedded sram pool. still over the top? one last thing with tile rendering i hear there is a problem with alpha blending due to "state changes", mind elaborating on...

i believe the performance difference is likely significant. if you use pci you have a lot less bandwidth, not only that there is more latency especially when other devices are using the pci bus as well. as for using both vid cards it shouldn't be to big a deal.

i don't think ati's hyperz is all that great since it's not fully operational as of yet. *mutter* if it was i'd bet the radeon would spank the geforces. no comments please, it's my personal view of the facts and what i consider to be "good" performance. what if each polygon was...

me thinks going full tile rendering isn't worth it. hyperz with framebuffer tiling would be better. you could get some hsr from the hyperz and with a the use of embedded memory and schedeulling, make effective use of memory bandwidth. powervr and traditional renderers seem to be to messed up...

you know what, this thread would belong better on www.beyond3d.com this likely isn't the right crowd, jpprod.