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120+ GeForce FX Reviews Collected

Posted by timothy on from the overkill-overkill dept.

Peter writes "We just finished at 8Dimensional our list of GeForce FX reviews. It tries to show all reviews of these video cards currently online, 120+ are listed at the moment." Hmmm, time to upgrade from an Xpert@Play98 ...

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  1. To bad they will all have to be redone by Megor1 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    3dmark released a patch today that avoids nvidias cheating in their benchmark, so all the reviews that used 3dmark need to rerun their tests.

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    1. Re:To bad they will all have to be redone by Goalie_Ca · · Score: 5, Interesting

      It's true a lot of reviewers have relied on futuremarks benchmark. For me and others it means nothing because its "too" synthetic and uncharacteristic of current games. But for others this means everything but then again, they've probably already know that. It's not everyday your "favorite" gpu drops 24% :P

      It's worth to note that ATI also "cheated" but they still correctly rendered the scene. All they had done was re-order the shader instructions so they were optimized for their architecture. It only boost their performance by 3% IIRC.

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  2. And they all prove... by da3dAlus · · Score: 5, Funny

    That the GeForce FX sounds like a leaf blower...

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  3. You know, slashdot itself would be more useful by The+Terrorists · · Score: 5, Interesting

    to us if it contained such review compendia in itself, rather than making me go to 100 different sites to see them. It'd also be a way to counter the various technology zealotries that arise here. I'm willing to see these ads if the value of this site goes up commensurately.

  4. uhhh by Tweakmeister · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "We just finished at 8Dimensional our list of GeForce FX reviews." ...and? now what?

    While the idea of a site that shows all the reviews in one place is noble...unless you have huge amounts on content it's easier to search google for the reviews. The good ones usually end up being on top as well.

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  5. Re:is it really an upgrade? by Evil-G · · Score: 5, Funny

    What benchmark are you using?

    The "decibels produced by the video card" benchmark.

  6. time? by buddha42 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Hmmm, time to upgrade from an Xpert@Play98 ...

    Nope. The most stressful video application most users do is DVD playback, and even that is loooooong past the point where hardware-assistance is needed.

    The video card market has gotten absolutly rediculous in the last 2 years. Its strange, when Intel and AMD fight it out, prices plummet. While nVidia and ATI have been fighting it out prices have skyrocketed. Sure, so have features, but they're so random and game or api dependant that most people don't even know how to turn them on in different games or in the drivers advanced settings.

    Up until UT2K3 it was completely absurd, because anything with DDR could play any game just fine. Now with the new crop its even worse because modern cards still can't play the very-new and upcoming games well. So buying a high-end card now is overkill for older games, and underpowered for upcoming games.

  7. 120 reviews... by Capt'n+Hector · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you guys telling me that every single person with a geforce fx wrote an online review?

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