actually, the Nforce boards are right on the heels of the KT266A/KT333 boards, anyone who's willing to forgo stability for the extra 1-2% performance they'd get from a KT266A/KT333 board is an idiot, it's that simple.
the SiS735 lags behind, but not so much that you'd notice it if you weren't running benchmark suites all day, or throwing heavy duty tasks at it which would probably be better served by an AMD 762 based board and a pair of Athlon's.
FYI, I'm using an SiS735 right now, it works. it's fairly fast, it was cheap. OTOH I have a complaints list the length of my arm about the Asus VIA Apollo Pro 133A board that sits in the P3 next to me.
the problem is, people have the same attitude that you do "If they were better people would be using them" and so nobody actually bothers to try them to discover than AMD without VIA is a perfectly workable solution. catch-22 and all that.
Yeah, great plan, make existing code run badly.... excellent plan, the best plan ever, almost as good as their "Makes the internet faster" advertising campaign.
Intel should stick to making processors that do things quickly, rather than trying to shoehorn the market into doing things quickly THEIR way.
Nvidia's Nforce is looking good and solid, I haven't heard a single horror story about it infact.
SiS 735/745 lines are nice, cheap, pretty fast, and they work.
It's completely possible to build a fast athlon system without even having to look at a VIA chipset. so please, stop using VIA as an excuse to bash AMD.
It should be noted that the very act of taking a screenshot can stall the system.
try taking a screenshot of 3dmark using a utility that writes it to disk immediately, most likely the system will stutter, and it's DURING that stutter that the image is actually captured (hence the low fps readout)
the phenomenon occurs with Quake engined games as well. probably others...
"That is a trollish statement. Like Windows or not, my Win2K box has not ever gotten a BSOD and only locked up completely (forcing reboot) once in over a year."
Except his statement had nothing to do with what you were refuting, he was talking about windows performing better because less gunk was taking up memory/cpu time, you were talking about stability.
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"Console on a stick"
Why just offload rendering to custom hardware, offload physics and ai too!
actually, the Nforce boards are right on the heels of the KT266A/KT333 boards, anyone who's willing to forgo stability for the extra 1-2% performance they'd get from a KT266A/KT333 board is an idiot, it's that simple.
the SiS735 lags behind, but not so much that you'd notice it if you weren't running benchmark suites all day, or throwing heavy duty tasks at it which would probably be better served by an AMD 762 based board and a pair of Athlon's.
FYI, I'm using an SiS735 right now, it works. it's fairly fast, it was cheap. OTOH I have a complaints list the length of my arm about the Asus VIA Apollo Pro 133A board that sits in the P3 next to me.
the problem is, people have the same attitude that you do "If they were better people would be using them" and so nobody actually bothers to try them to discover than AMD without VIA is a perfectly workable solution. catch-22 and all that.
Yeah, great plan, make existing code run badly.... excellent plan, the best plan ever, almost as good as their "Makes the internet faster" advertising campaign.
Intel should stick to making processors that do things quickly, rather than trying to shoehorn the market into doing things quickly THEIR way.
i850E is the last Rdram chipset on Intel's roadmap, and that is already here.
hell, their new server chipset (the E7500) is DDR based.
actually, we had to add simms in pairs because they were 32bits wide and the processor attached to them had a 64bit memory bus.
If intel is still supporting Rdram so strongly, how come there isn't an Rdram supporting chipset on intels future roadmap?
Well, we can start with it's pitiful excuse for an x87 floating point unit....
VIA chipsets do suck, so don't use one.
Nvidia's Nforce is looking good and solid, I haven't heard a single horror story about it infact.
SiS 735/745 lines are nice, cheap, pretty fast, and they work.
It's completely possible to build a fast athlon system without even having to look at a VIA chipset. so please, stop using VIA as an excuse to bash AMD.
Nvidia, SiS and AMD make AMD chipsets that tend to work without being anything like as insanely twitchy as VIA hardware.
(I'm using an SiS chipset here btw)
It would seem that some software creates the file THEN captures the image THEN streams the data it just captured TO the file.
okay then, do you have a better word for it...
:)
maybe just leave the word phenomenon out and have "This happens with pretty much any software" ?
Read it again, they are saying that Hoaxy stuff has been circulating, that's entirely different from the entire thing being vapourware.
What _should_ have tipped you off is that the 'hoax' material doesn't match the current leaks..
hell, one of them was claiming it supported 128bit colour.. uh.. NO.....
Not really
Environmental Bump Mapping isn't news, DISPLACEMENT MAPPING OTOH, is very much news.
It should be noted that the very act of taking a screenshot can stall the system.
try taking a screenshot of 3dmark using a utility that writes it to disk immediately, most likely the system will stutter, and it's DURING that stutter that the image is actually captured (hence the low fps readout)
the phenomenon occurs with Quake engined games as well. probably others...
It doesn't have 16x Full Scene AntiAliasing, it has 16x FAA (Fragment AntiAliasing)
:)
From what I can gather it only AA's parts of the image that actually NEED it, the fillrate savings must be enormous
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Is he using the card that came with his mac, running the OS that was preinstalled on it?
:)
no?, so he chopped and changed and got driver problems
No, it locked a Geforce 4 Ti4600's in a box and fed them only the bare minimum to keep them alive.
for sport.
whilst rendering Jedi Knight II at 3840x1024 / 32bit at 100FPS.
And lots of people have major problems with Nvidia drivers under Windows XP.
:)
Your point?
As long as we have hardware we can chop and change there will be conflicts and glitches, that is almost totally unavoidable (unless you buy a Mac
sse2 can do a single double precision fpu calc per cycle or two single precision (rather than one single precision) IIRC
(Note: It was a rhetorical question)
closest I can get is a 1Ghz Duron and ECS K7S5A for around $80
so what exactly is the SSE instruction set that intel intro'd with the P3?..
(which the AthlonXP/MP/4 supports btw)
"That is a trollish statement. Like Windows or not, my Win2K box has not ever gotten a BSOD and only locked up completely (forcing reboot) once in over a year."
:)
Except his statement had nothing to do with what you were refuting, he was talking about windows performing better because less gunk was taking up memory/cpu time, you were talking about stability.
totally different issues
I wonder if it'll work on an AmigaOne G3-SE