ravingloon
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Well my CPU benches better and my Radeon 9800 is greater than a 9700 PRO and I'm sitting at under 10FPS on that demo.
Vark said:4190
Athlon 64 3000
1gig ram
6800 Ultra
I haven't updated my drivers since my card came out so apparently Nvidia's behind on the 3dmark 'optimizations' looking at the x800 scores
Oh but wait! I forget ATI never cheats!
It must be hard for NV users to wake up into reality and realize their cards are only faster in Doom III...Vark said:4190
Athlon 64 3000
1gig ram
6800 Ultra
I haven't updated my drivers since my card came out so apparently Nvidia's behind on the 3dmark 'optimizations' looking at the x800 scores
Oh but wait! I forget ATI never cheats!
M3wThr33 said:
232 Marks.
Two-hundred freaking thirty two.
AMD 2400+
512MB RAM
GeForce FX 5200
Vlad said:Heh, you think that's bad? My computer is apparently so out of date that the program won't even RUN.
And here I was expecting to just get a really bad score, instead the benchmarking program just washes its hands of me.
M3wThr33 said:Thanks for the comfort, it helps.
Vark said:"It must be hard for NV users to wake up into reality and realize their cards are only faster in Doom III..."
Look, I was pointing out that everyone's favorite underdog and rah rah canadians aren't exactly the pinnacle of morality everyone claims them to be whenever Nvidia is caught 'cheating'. Both companies do it. Its pretty par for the freaking course these days, which is why benchmarks are useless.
3dMark scores are meaningless fun. A new version comes out, you see how your computer runs (or doesn't) and then you wait a year or so before games using similar features that are grossly more optimized and realistic come out.
Now, just because I own an Nvidia card doesn't mean I have their logo emblazioned on my freaking chest. I don't run around the mall with wearing an Nvidia shirt pointing at people going "OMFGLOLZ ATI Is Teh sUck!!1!!!"
The 6800u was the faster card on the market when it came out. I had a bunch of cash to blow so I bought it, period. Had the new ATI cards been out and I knew their drivers were stable enough for a dev environment, I would have gone that way. Had the 6800GT's been in stock, I would have gotten one of those.
It's a freaking videocard, in 6 months it'll be outdated, and ATI and NVIDIA will be at it again. The god damned fanboys will whip out their Pom-Pom's again and jerk off over whatever shrine they've flip flopped to at the time.
Stow the wounded fanboy bullshit for like 10 minutes. There's enough of it on the internet already.
Slo said:Bah, I gotta go with Vark and loathe with N-V on this one!:-\
teh_pwn said:Either the program's buggy or my Sapphire 9800 Pro no likey Direct X 9.0c.
Yeah, I'm bitching a lot, but you would too if you spent hours researching and building a system, spending $1200, and then have some guy with a 2 year old computer double your score.![]()