NVIDIA Unveils (And Tom's Reviews) The GeForce4

EconolineCrush writes: "NVIDIA has finally revealed its GeForce4 Titanium and MX graphics processors. Tom's Hardware has a some benchmarks comparing the new offerings to current products, and the results are pretty interesting. Meanwhile, The Tech Report does an excellent job cutting through the hype with an examination of each new chip's features. Both articles are well worth reading to get the full story on the latest from NVIDIA."

Comments

Tom's is going downhill.

[joshsisk]

After this article and yesterday's overly-glowing review of the Xbox, it seems to me that Tom's has fallen on hard times. Consider the following sentence:

"The test guys who aught [sic] to have caught this driver bug seem to be busy selling their stock our [sic] counting their money instead."

All their articles now seem to have been written in five minutes and sent though to door without the slightest bit of editing- or even spell checking!

I don't mean to nitpick, but Tom's used to be a very reliable source- and a great read. Not so much anymore.

Re:Can't stand it

[Geek In Training]

"I hope if I buy a GeForce4, it'll last, in both speed and 3D technology. "

Hey buddy, cope. If you're not realizing by now that you're going to be able to run the latest and greatest games with all the eye candy without shelling out $200-$400 every 12 months, that's YOUR problem, not the industry's.

This is like my neighbors who were mad at *ME* for telling them they could not load WindowsXP on their 486 DX2/66. But we paid $4000 for this machine ten years ago! That was almost half the cost of a car! And it still works! They ended up going to WalMart and buying an HP, with monitor and CD burner, for $699. Now they quit whining... until 5 years from now then it won't run Microsoft AOL version 15.2.

As for me, I have too many other interests to shell out $400 for a video card. I buy games 18-24 months after they come out, at the $19.95 (or lower) price. I *NEVER* pay more than $130 for a video card, and I'm extremely pleased with my price/performance return. Go look at newegg.com for the GeForce2 GTS-V for $49 and you'll see what card I'm running; it gives me 70 frames per second at high quality in Quake3.

If that isn't enough for you, well, I'm sorry, you're just going to have to pay more for the Cadillac.