ATi Radeon 9800 Pro

ATi is bringing out their new card, the Radeon 9800 Pro, and all of the hardware review sites which depend on ATi's generosity for pre-release hardware have released their necessarily favorable reviews. Here's a few: Hothardware.com, Hexus.net, HardOCP.com, Anandtech, Tom's Hardware, Extremetech, PCWorld.

Comments

WTF

[Dutchmaan]

I just went out and bought a 9700pro last f@#$c#ing night!

The karma of video cards one of the most constant forces in the universe!

Re:WTF

[mcpkaaos]

Good thing they gave you a f@#$c#ing receipt. Just take it back. I'd strongly recommend you leave the "f@#$c#ing" out of your reason for the return, however. Unless, of course, you bought it at Fry's. :)

mcp:kaaos

Not again!!!

[SpanishInquisition]

*throws 500$ video card in garbage*

Re:Not again!!!

[Twirlip of the Mists]

Announcer: "Krusty the Klown" is brought to you by the new Gamestation 256: It's slightly faster... to the max!

Bart: 256? [groan] And I'm stuck with this useless 252!

[he drop-kicks the system into the fireplace, where it slowly melts]

Gamestation 252: Don't destroy me! I can still make you happy... to the max!

Hey pizza boy

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd like mine with extra pepperoni, please.

Thanks.

Re:Anandtech

[ackthpt]

The Anandtech's article shows interesting effects when underclocking the 9800 to same values of 9700. Performance is equal without AA or Anisotropic filtering, but with filtering 9800 is 10 to 30% faster.

The Anantech article is also unabashedly crammed with flash ads for ATI video cards. So polluted I'm finally motivated to remove the flash plug-in. I respect their reviews, but WTF is WRONG with these people?

Re:ahem

[MotorMachineMercenar]

>Because not all men think with their dicks, and
>ATI knows this? :-)

Riiight, ATI concentrates their marketing on a little-known marketing segment with lots of disposable income: eunuchs.

What? no ASC?

[Destoo]

So no ascii version of this card yet? What are they waiting for?

I'm browsing slashdot using Telix and the refresh rate is really bad with the 9500ASC.

a nice change

[archen]

This is what a really wanted to hear:

(from the Register)
"Effectively a 0.13 micron version of the four-pipeline 9500 Pro, the new chip will run both faster and cooler than its predecessor"

Yes cooler... COOLER.
Not so freaking hot you need to strap a briggs&stratton lawn mower engine up to a card to power the fan to cool the f'ing thing. Are you listening Nvidia?!

Re:a nice change

[shepd]

Maybe they meant cooler as in:

"Man, that fire, it's like burning so much COOLER than that time we burned our school books!"

More Coverage

[briggsb]

...of the Radeon 9500 ASC which enhances ASCII gaming for serious nethackers.

Re:ahem

[Openadvocate]

So, ATI gives you a virtual monkey you can spank while Nvidia gives you, hmm

Re:What?

[xtink]

My god that's brilliant we just need a catchy name to call it X is a popular letter right now we could call it something X something the markentoids can market direct to the gamers. And it should be controlled by some one other then the video card makers like a large company located somewhere in north west region on the united states. Yes I think the idea of a OPEN G raphics L ibrary that is a is a cross-platform standard for 3D rendering and 3D hardware acceleration that ships with all Windows, MacOS, Linux and Unix systems is a great idea almost as good as my idea for using a round object rotating on a central axis to help move heavy objects

Re:Independent review sites? Payola

[Anonymous Coward]

LOL, if only that were true, we wouldn't have Ziff-Davis anymore...

Re:What were you expecting?

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn.
So I guess thats just me and Rob going out today?

I'll bring home a dead hooker for you.

Seeing as how you get those urges to crack open a cold one.