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ATI made a commitment or a statement that it would double the speed/performance of the previous generation of it's GPU. They did not manage to do that with the move from 9500 to 9700, does the R420 nomenclature indicate a doubling of the current generation's performance? It may not be...

I just go a Dell Inspiron 8600 with an ATI 9600 pro gpu - are there any problems updating to the latest drivers? Ati says that notebook manufacturers provide their own version customized for their notebooks. Anybody with experience on Dell note books could you please let me know? Thanks!!!

At Beyond3d there are some questions being posted in this forum thread called Q&A with the DirectX dev team, included is the question of the DX team story in this thread. Perhaps answers will be forthcoming. HERE

Cindy22 is not me!!, I would like some further confirmation of the DX team story, can anybody corroborate it's accuracy? THE REAL "spam"

Happy Thanksgiving from a neighbhor to the North! We are thankful that you live next door!

More grist for the mill, the Det 53's reactivate illegal optimizations. For some reason I can't link to it so here is the url, just copy and paste. http://www.elitebastards.com/page.php?pageid=2647&head=1&comments=1

What I would like to understand more of, is how the Microsoft WHQL process works. What level of knowledge would MS have on these video drivers? Would they know if there is application detection? or any of the other questionable practices? Could they request that the drivers be unencrypted so...

That is the problem with this situation, how do you give a fair comparison between the contenders, when one uses optimized code and others (ATI and Matrox) apparently do not? If it is unaddressed then what ever shred of value that this benchmark has left is loss. Remember that Derek Perez said...

You are right Stardust, I meant it to be funny but if it was offensive I do apologize to Thugsrook. I did not mean to have it taken as a personal insult. As to not replying to you well - you'll get over it.:D

Did you ever hear about the desert nomad who woke up one night in his tent and he was hungry? He lit a lamp and ate fig, he noticed it had a worm so he threw it out. He picked up another fig bit it, found a another worm, he looked at his bowl of figs for a monent then picked up his lamp blew...

Hi Rilescat, -If it is not important or does not matter then why does NVidia bother to inflate the benchmark numbers? - Nvidia thinks its important-why? Because consumers think it is important and make their buying decisions based upon this benchmark result. Nvidia wants to make money. That...

Careful! Josonja!!! I posted a thread, "Nvidia PR department hiring Iraqi Information Minister?" and it got locked by the moderator and he called me Spam!!! Although 3dMark is an artificial benchmark it still offers value if: 1. It reflects real world gaming experience. 2. It stands up to...

IMO a man might look at a prostitute and think that she is prettier than his wife, maybe even cheaper, but he wouldn't use her because it is wrong. Right now buying anything from Nvidia with all of it's cheats and deceit would mean my ethics are similar to a whoremonger. But that is just...

This is from Dave Bauman at Beyond 3d talking to Nvidia's representative Derek Perez. Those are weasel words from Nvidia. I would be embarrasssed to have to defend them if I were Derek Perez. It implies that "we can inflate or massage any benchmark score as long as it is not a game!"

Hi Cyberian, I said that honesty, accountablity and reality were required for the evaluation of Video cards. That is ethics NOT philosophy. I never discussed philosphy at all. Granted the two are related but if I remember correctly it was Insomniak who called my remarks existentialist...