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I thought it might be TC/HM, but I didn't think they'd actually advertise them with the inflated figure. But surely there's something to these techs that make them faster than a regular card that swaps in system RAM when it overflows its local pool? *crickets* You can get some decent...

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Heh, thanks, jim. From what I've read, it appears to be UE3. Google "Rainbow Six Vegas Unreal Engine" and you get a bunch of hits for UE3 (including that AT article), though it's technically possible that everyone's sourcing the same bad info and too lazy to double-check. :) I don't think it's...

I thought R6:Vegas was an Unreal Engine 3 game, and UE3 doesn't work with AA? AT's RS:V perf. analysis. Thread on AA in GRAW. Thread on AA in RS:V. Both are UE3 games. Hmmm, per that last link, apparently UE3's shadow rendering method is incompatible or very slow with MSAA...

IIRC (emphasis on the if), IPS initially had the widest viewing angles (and possibly the deepest blacks of all LCD panels, though this may be me factoring in the wider viewing angles so blacks stayed black for a greater viewing range). I don't know if this is still true, but you can check some...

I believe it's HDCP you should be worried about, as you can always switch b/w HDMI and DVI with an adapter cable (well, cables, including separate audio). AFAIK, BluRay and HD-DVD will require HDCP (and so HDMI/DVI) for 1080p playback at some point in the future, but that restriction isn't...

WRT the ongoing "discussion," I thought that Wikipedia AF article is based on this SGI article and so describes (a form of) RIP-mapping, which is different from how GPUs implement AF. RIP-mapping, like bilinear and trilinear filtering, seems to isotropically sample from anisotropic MIP-maps. I...

Maybe my answer here will help. The receding color rings represent increasing MIP-map levels, or smaller and smaller versions of the base texture. The further the colors are "pushed back," the more of the screen's textures will be sampled from the base, highest-res texture. You can see this...

Well, more like the horse's elbow, or maybe it's OC'ed brother. Sapphire's X1950P AGP PR states a wimpy 8 pipes but the full 36 shaders, and this is probably where ZZF got their specs from. But it's PR, and so probably wrong simply b/c the card name implies 12 pipes. I notice Diamond's X1950P...

I have to say a 6800 is a pretty good card for its time: faster than a 9800P and lower power draw. Heck, my 9800P just died and I don't want to bother upgrading to PCIe. I should get in line after bloodthirster. :)

Try for a 7600GS if you can find it for ~$100AR. Should draw less power than comparable GF6 series and be totally silent if it's the stock fanless cooler. Unfortunately, I only see fanless versions starting at ~$135, and a lot of those seem to have slower-than-stock memory speed. This...

If it's coming around March, wait for the midrange GeForce 8-series (who knows, maybe even the midrange Radeon X2-series) to drop. If you're going to buy a new card just for SC, then there's really not much to do but wait for the game to be released. Buying ahead of time isn't a great...

Who needs 10, 20, even 40MB of 256MB/s EDRAM (that still won't be enough for HDR + AA buffers, so PC devs would be forced to use tiling like on the 360) when you can have 1GB of 160GB/s GDDR4? Man, that number sounds crazy. I'll believe it when I see it, but it wouldn't hurt in progressing...

I don't get it, replacing the stock cooler and OCing the cards is eVGA's fault? Or are ppl seeing broken cards right out of the box?

They meant NV's 8x(S) and 16x AA modes look better overall than ATI's 6x, but they're too slow to be useful for brand new, eyeball-exploding games. So, what cmdrdredd said. :) As for the article, directly comparing a X1950XTX to a 7950GX2, HQ AF to HQ filtering, and ignoring AAA/TrAA...