Yay! I have to say it's awesome so far. At first I had troubles with 3DMark 2001 in Win 2K. It'd reboot randomly. I'm not sure why. I also had troubles with Counter-Strike with some truform error. So I installed Windows XP. They released new 3286 drivers with windows XP and it was reviewed, so what the hey. I installed WinXP in like 40 minutes or something.
I even have my ATI TV Wonder card installed and Power DVD 3.0.
I have to say, not one crash or error yet. Nothing is wrong. No visual artifacts or anything. Benched from Q3Arena, 1280x1024 w/ max everything and timedemo for four, I get 120 FPS. I then enabled Smoothvision 2X for Quality, and it dropped to 38 FPS! But it looked beautiful.
Though there was the attack of the jaggies. My friend ran his Geforce 3 with Quincunx on, and it ran about 10 frames higher, and the jaggies were a lot better handled. But like the reviews said, those blurs on textures, didn't exist on the Radeon. It looked superb!
My 3DMark 2001 score was 7700. (AMD 1.4 Ghz not overclocked on a KT266A motherboard)
That's about it. I have to say, with the new drivers, and 5-10% performance behind Geforce 3 TI-500, but with built in Hydravision (which btw, is pretty cool..) and a lot better DVD quality, and cheaper price.
I think ATI might have finally stepped on something good. (Has been an NVidia fan for a long time...)
I even have my ATI TV Wonder card installed and Power DVD 3.0.
I have to say, not one crash or error yet. Nothing is wrong. No visual artifacts or anything. Benched from Q3Arena, 1280x1024 w/ max everything and timedemo for four, I get 120 FPS. I then enabled Smoothvision 2X for Quality, and it dropped to 38 FPS! But it looked beautiful.
Though there was the attack of the jaggies. My friend ran his Geforce 3 with Quincunx on, and it ran about 10 frames higher, and the jaggies were a lot better handled. But like the reviews said, those blurs on textures, didn't exist on the Radeon. It looked superb!
My 3DMark 2001 score was 7700. (AMD 1.4 Ghz not overclocked on a KT266A motherboard)
That's about it. I have to say, with the new drivers, and 5-10% performance behind Geforce 3 TI-500, but with built in Hydravision (which btw, is pretty cool..) and a lot better DVD quality, and cheaper price.
I think ATI might have finally stepped on something good. (Has been an NVidia fan for a long time...)
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