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tweaktown fake article?

Zstream said:
So I have had my 460 for quite some time, eagerly waiting for badaboom to take note and release a software upgrade for fermi.

I challenge anyone with a fermi card to run badaboom. It is impossible to run without an error. So my question to everyone is this. How did tweaktown get this working? I call fake on the article and it's a real damn shame!

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/3204/nvidia_geforce_gtx_470_video_card_overclocked/index15.html
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When 470/480 were released, nvidia gave review sites a version of badaboom that worked on Fermi to be used in reviews, but it has never been released to the public.

That is why you see benches of Fermi with badaboom but cannot actually use a 4XX Fermi card with badaboom.
 
http://www.anandtech.com/show/2977/...tx-470-6-months-late-was-it-worth-the-wait-/6

It might just be that the 460 doesn't work, while the 480 and 470 do. Or they got pre-release versions which still haven't been made publicly available.
It's not just Tweaktown who managed it though.


EDIT: Grooverider beat me to it, but I also have this:

http://www.badaboomit.com/node/508
Funnily enough the official product website has information.

We’ve made major updates to our underlying video processing engine, which improve on features and functionality along with optimizations for GF100. We are first integrating that into our enterprise products. Support for this engine within Badaboom is currently expected to be available in Q4 of 2010.
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No faking or cheating going on, although apparently it's a terribly managed affair. A comment from one Anandtech article says that Badaboom was included as part of a GTX460 package, and doesn't work on the card (http://www.anandtech.com/Show/Index...&page=1&slug=gainward-announces-a-2gb-gtx-460).
 
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Still no reply back. Putting up benchmark that no one in the public has for verification? Talk about in the pocket for Nvidia! If AMD did this, I would just be as PO'd!
 
Its not unusual for new hardware to be showcased on unreleased (but planned for eventual release) software given that the new hardware will likely be in use at the time of the new software's pending release.

Sure there is a gray area in how much time is too much time in the lapse between showcasing and actual release, but its not like the purpose or intent is to mislead any more so than the intent of benchmarking in general.

My own expectation in the topic is that if a reviewer uses an unreleased at-time-of-publication version of software then they secure a publishable commit date from the software vendor regarding when the latest date by which review readers can expect to see the showcased software released...with the condition that if the software vendor misses that commit date then the review publisher will retroactively pull the specific graphs and commentary from the review relating to the showcased software (as it will then be justifiably classified as vaporware).
 
well, clearly they have a driver that works. maybe the OP should just ask ryan smith or someone at tweaktown to "accidentally" email it to him...
 
Or email Badaboom, who make the damned thing, and ask for an updated ETA.
Why ask review sites about something that's not a review site issue?

The Badaboom website says that the version supporting this feature should be out in Q4 2010, it's Q4 2010, ask them for an updated release schedule.
 
vReveal works fine. Have you tried it? Or is Badaboom a much better application? I don't know much about video editing software.
 
Zstream said:
So I have had my 460 for quite some time, eagerly waiting for badaboom to take note and release a software upgrade for fermi.

I challenge anyone with a fermi card to run badaboom. It is impossible to run without an error. So my question to everyone is this. How did tweaktown get this working? I call fake on the article and it's a real damn shame!

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/3204/nvidia_geforce_gtx_470_video_card_overclocked/index15.html
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I'd be upset if I were you too. Is there anywhere in the article where it states that retail versions of Badaboom don't run on Fermi cards? I don't see where they noted it.
 
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