This review is the only one I've seen where the X1800XT loses so badly to the 7800GTX. In every other review I've seen ATI's card has a little edge in D3D games, but nVidia still wins in Doom3 and other OGL games.
You obviously haven't been keeping up with onboard sound tech. SoundStorm has been only integrated in nForce2 boards and the most recent boards using nVidia chipsets use Realtek (650 or 850) chips, which don't offer hardware acceleration. Only a few high end boards offer some sort of sound hardware acceleration, and it comes in the form of Creative sound chips:)
Now that we are talking about audio, I don't see why they use an Audigy2 when you can get for the same money one of the new Creative X-Fi.
If they indeed drop the price of older titles, I think it's a very interesting move. I don't like much of what's being released nowadays and almost all the stuff I listen is several years old.
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Read it closely: he said 2Gb more at the 2Mb full speed (and not 64kb).
This review is the only one I've seen where the X1800XT loses so badly to the 7800GTX. In every other review I've seen ATI's card has a little edge in D3D games, but nVidia still wins in Doom3 and other OGL games.
You obviously haven't been keeping up with onboard sound tech. SoundStorm has been only integrated in nForce2 boards and the most recent boards using nVidia chipsets use Realtek (650 or 850) chips, which don't offer hardware acceleration. Only a few high end boards offer some sort of sound hardware acceleration, and it comes in the form of Creative sound chips :)
Now that we are talking about audio, I don't see why they use an Audigy2 when you can get for the same money one of the new Creative X-Fi.
If they indeed drop the price of older titles, I think it's a very interesting move. I don't like much of what's being released nowadays and almost all the stuff I listen is several years old.
Talk about insta-death ;)