I was referring to Nvidia being first to engineer integrated 3D
graphics. 2D graphics are the simple task of a video card by comparison.
3D graphics advancements drive video card development. And rapidly at that..
On 3/2/2010 10:19 AM, maccrawj wrote:
ATi was in the graphics game a long before nVidia going way back to
the EGA standard & PC XT/AT systems. Did I miss something about your
statement or do you miss that?
nVidia's "tactics" with both physx & disabling SLI on x48 SLI over
"licensing" alone a reasons enough to never use them. Of course the
ATI fan bug that affected so many non-BBA cards and never really got
fixed has left a sour taste in mouth to say the least! Yada yada, both
abandoning even base support for older chipsets under vista/7 should
leave everyone screaming that non-existent 3rd choice player or at
least that they opensource the older drivers. As has been said all
brands will do crappy things over the years.
Personal rant: there should be a law that when companies stop
supporting hardware with drivers that they MUST opensource the last
version's source code! =)
On 3/2/2010 4:20 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
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