V5 6000 review

[nRollo]

The card who would be king

Man, does this bring back memories:
Arguing with the faithful who would not upgrade for a year and a half because "it'll be out soon".
The V5 crew clamoring about how their cards had T&L too because 3dfx built it into the drivers, but nVidia's FSAA was a "software hack".
The LOD bias settings and how all the reviewers cheated 3dfx.
Etc.

 

[Schadenfroh]

i mis 3dfx

 

[codehack2]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
i mis 3dfx

Not me... these guys were past their prime. Way too much R&D on the boards and not enough on the core technology in the chips. They rode the voodoo architecture for way too long. Gigapixel was the company that I was looking forward to seeing in action, although looking at the current crop of chips, I'd say that ArtX was the real hidden Gem.

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[nRollo]

Nu uh! "Fear" would've owned joo! LOL

I miss them, and S3, Rendition, and Matrox too. Used to be you actually had a choice in VGAs and there was always something interesting coming out to consider.
These days it's either ATi or nVidia, and the difference between them is usually pretty uninspiring. I don't think there's anyone here who could not be happy with any 5900 or 9800. 5900 faster at lower detail by a little! Pffft. Big deal. 9800 does 16X performance AF! Pfft. Big deal. 8X quality wouldn't exactly make anyone cry at the horror of it, and both cards run it fine.

So I say to these most boring of video times: Pfffft.

In a way I liked it better in the "bad old days" when you spent your $350 and actually changed the way you gamed. I don't consider ratcheting years old features higher enough to make my tired trouser trout try to leap for the sky.

 

[Schadenfroh]

mojo, dx9, GigaPixel Tile Based Rendering. would have kicked butt

 

[codehack2]

Originally posted by: Rollo
Nu uh! "Fear" would've owned joo! LOL

I miss them, and S3, Rendition, and Matrox too. Used to be you actually had a choice in VGAs and there was always something interesting coming out to consider.
These days it's either ATi or nVidia, and the difference between them is usually pretty uninspiring. I don't think there's anyone here who could not be happy with any 5900 or 9800. 5900 faster at lower detail by a little! Pffft. Big deal. 9800 does 16X performance AF! Pfft. Big deal. 8X quality wouldn't exactly make anyone cry at the horror of it, and both cards run it fine.

So I say to these most boring of video times: Pfffft.

In a way I liked it better in the "bad old days" when you spent your $350 and actually changed the way you gamed. I don't consider ratcheting years old features higher enough to make my tired trouser trout try to leap for the sky.

I guess in a way, I kind of miss those days too... They were the best of times and the worst of times. It was exciting, because everything was so new, and each product release was a monumentous jump in features and speed. But I also remember having to check every game I bought to see whether it was "3d accelerated" and which hardware/API it supported, if any. The market has matured and reached the end of its Revolution, we are now at the start of the Renaissance. It's a pretty damn good time to be a gamer... Mature, fast, and stable hardware, Operating Systems, and API's that are just waiting for game developers to exploit them. Come to think of it, I like things just the way they are.

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