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Massive Graphics Card Review

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the sifting-through-the-cruft dept.

Brian Tonka writes to tell us that rojakpot has posted a pretty comprehensive graphics card review including over 240 different desktop graphics cards. With each of the vendors given their own section and using 15 different points of comparison this should be quite a starting reference for the enthusiast and casual buyer alike.

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  1. This isn't a review by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's a fricking table of all the cards and their specifications. It doesn't review a single card at all.

    1. Re:This isn't a review by ergo98 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's a fricking table of all the cards and their specifications. It doesn't review a single card at all.

      Exactly. It's full of irrelevant specifications (including for some ancient, not-a-chance-in-hell cards) that no one can use to choose a card (and processor speed and hypothetical megatexel speeds are largely irrelevant in the real world. Micron manufacturing process...well that's just retarded). What a waste of a story spot.

    2. Re:This isn't a review by h4rm0ny · · Score: 2, Insightful


      I hope whoever paid /. for this story spot doesn't think they'll get their money's worth. 98% of the page hits will be people who clicked the link, saw a meaningless collection of statistics and closed the tab before the ads had even finished loading. And most people will open the story first, see the first three comments describing the article as rubbish and not bothering to click the link at all.

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    3. Re:This isn't a review by kesuki · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Like it or not, AGP is really the standard for video expansion right now.

      sorry to nit pick, but AGP is dead, for the latest and greatest the AGP and PCI Express version of the same card, and the AGP version costs $150 more. you can buy a Very nice motherboard for that price difference....

      AGP is a legacy product, in it's death throes. the cards require more circuitry, and they cost more. buying a motherbord with an agp slot relegates you to obsolete (or budget) 2005 model cards or paying a super premium on the high end 2006 cards.

      Why? because you can only have 1 AGP slot in a mother board, you can have 4 PCIEx16 slots, and still keep slotfans below them.. like it or not PCI Express x16 is here to stay, and agp is going the way of the dinosaur it was.

      there may not be a 'real world performance' issue between the two technologies, until you put a pair of gt7800's in SLI mode... or a pair of radeon X1800's in crossfire mode... then you see why agp is dead and dying.

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  2. when do we get a complex database by spacerodent · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So with all these benchmarks lately when do we get an extrapolating database where you and build a virtual system and get an estimate on what its proformance will be?

  3. Stop the madne...er, linking by greg1104 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Can somone give the useless and ad-ridden articles at rojakpot their own section, so I can filter them all out automatically? If I wanted a graphics card review that actually gave useful information, I'd visit a site with real content in that area, like Tom's hardware.

  4. Re:This is really cool by Mr.+Vandemar · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It may be cool, but it's sure as hell not a review.

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  5. I would like to see by ysegalov · · Score: 2, Insightful

    a gfx card that can draw not only polygons, but also natively draw round objects (i.e. circles).

  6. Slogan by DietCoke · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Where the best in technology gather."

    Let me finish that.

    "Where the best in technology gather, overload a server, then leave still wondering how the hell this constitutes a review."

    A bit wordy, but accurate.

  7. Re:simple: open source drivers? by Baloo+Ursidae · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Follow-up: can Red Hat or Novell or somebody please offer a certification logo program for some of these cards? You know, a sticker that you can find on the boxes in CompUSA or something, which says that it's not going to be a stink to get running on Linux?

    Wrong question. Better question: Can a vendor-neutral consortium please offer the same.

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  8. Re:Dell 2405FPW?!?!?! by rwa2 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, its native resolution is 1920x1200 - which is incidentally the limit on the single link DVI-D spec. You'll probably want to run at 32 bits per pixel (8 bits for red, green, blue, and alpha transparency), so you'll need a card with at least 10 MB of RAM... most cards have much more than this (32MB +), the extra which can be used for offscreen buffers and stuff. So pretty much any decent card with DVI-I outputs will do for 2D. Probably best to stick to the ATis and NVidias, though, since I'm certain they will support that monitor's physical screen rotation feature.

    Uh, you'll probably have to go pretty high end if you want decent 3D framerates at 1920x1200 with anti aliasing and stuff. But if you're looking for that, you pretty much have to set your price point ($100? $200? $300?) and go see what http://anandtech.com/ or http://tomshardware.com/ has to recommend.