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GeForce FX Reviews Roll In
Defender2000 writes "GeForce FX NDA lifted today, reviews are up at ExtremeTech, Tom's Hardware, and HardOCP. So far, it is indeed better overall than the 9700Pro, but not enough for it's price. Perhaps NVIDIA has something up its sleeve for the long term?" There's also a review at Anandtech, about which reader StrongBad writes "Unlike the rest of the reviews, however, wonderboy
gets down and dirty with the FX's antialiasing and anisotropic filtering methods
using some nifty on mouseover java commands."
ATI is still the king of crap. Their drivers are a joke. I have a friend who purchased a laptop with the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 w/64MB and he cannot install a single game. If you go to their website it says NOTE - Display drivers and multimedia applications for Laptops and Notebooks are NOT available for download from ATI CustomerCare.
What a crock of shite. I never have any problems with my GeForce 2 Go in my Inspiron or any of my nVidia based cards in Linux, Mac or Windows. ATI is a whole different matter.
Save yourself the trouble and skip ATI altogether.
Heres a hit as well, never spend more than $125-150 on a graphics card. By the time the games need the $300-400 card you just bought you could have bought it for $125-150. A graphics card is the best thing to upgrade in a system to get better gaming performance but wasting your money on a 9700pro or a geforce FX is plain stupid. I didn't need to go from a GeForce 2 to a GeForce 4 until I got neverwinter nights.