For the record, I'm AMD/Ati all the way but could hardly be called a
"fanboy" either. My main box has an ASUS Geforce 9600 GSO (the version
with the 192 bit memory bus and 96 shaders) which I use for folding
purposes. I've installed each and every updated driver that comes out
and have had no difficulties. Go figure.
On 3/2/2010 6:20 AM, [email protected] wrote:
I am not pissed at nVidia, I do however feel some of their marketing tactics
are devious and under-handed....but that's not what we are talking about
here.....we are talking mainly the technical POV.
As someone who owns:
2 x 7800GT
1 x 8800GTX
1 x GTS250
1 x 4870x2
1 x 5870
And previously owned:
X800GTO, 6600GT, 9700Pro, Ti4800, Ti4400, GF2 GTS, GF256, TNT2, TNT,
Voodoo3....etc
.....you could say I am more pro-nVidia then AMD.....but even that would be
drawing incorrect conclusions ;)
And how does a 13 year old gfx card design have any bearing on what is produced
today?
How can you think that because nVidia have been in the game longer, "they" have
the most experience? Surely, we are talking about the experience of the designers and
programmers here....the guys that keep moving from one company to another and the guys
who stagnate with ideas while fresher designers and programmers with much less experience
produce the goods elsewhere.....and this is why Fermi seems like it's going to be a
really poor chip. Bad design choices made by a supposedly experienced engineer.
I am not trying to be an asshat here, just trying to educate. I see way too much hate and
fanboyism on the net these days and all it does is reduce your choice for no good
reason.....and at the same time you are tarring others with your claims that "nVidia
are the best".....doing them no favours either.
Regards
Jason
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske
Sent: 01 March 2010 21:36
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] ATI CATALYST 10.2& 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and
conclusions
You're entitled to your opinion as I am to mine. My first Nvidia card
was a Riva 128 which as you may remember was THE 1st 3D integrated video
card ever sold and I stand by my opinion. As I said, when Nvidia
diversified into their 1st chipsets they bled their video card driver
efforts into other ventures. Clearly you're pissed at the company and I
understand. Their upper management who CONTROL the software engineers
are asshats for sure. They still have the best talent in the industry
IMHO because they clearly have the MOST experience at it.
On 3/1/2010 10:58 AM, [email protected] wrote:
That makes no sense.....you are blaming hardware designers and bean counters
for poor programming.
nVidias driver creators were ABYSMAL for 2 solid years and I have still seen nothing
since the first properly working Vista driver that has made me go "wow, excellent
work"......so 3 years + of creating barely stable drivers and you still want to
argue they are the best driver engineers? 0_o
I would sure like to see the evidence of your claim.....because from where I
have been sat these last few years, I have seen something completely different!
And that's only the purely technical POV.....all before we talk about the
under-handed tactics they have done with disabling driver features when they
detect there is an AMD card in the system also........
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