I would strongly recommend against buying an expensive video card before April/May.
It's another crunch week (or a crunch two weeks) before Spring Break, so I'll be strapped for time again. It's frustrating but I just need to make it through May and then I'm home free :)
I should probably be paying attention to class but I just thought I'd drop off this teaser :)
It's another crunch week (or a crunch two weeks) before Spring Break, so I'll be strapped for time again. It's frustrating but I just need to make it through May and then I'm home free :)
I should probably be paying attention to class but I just thought I'd drop off this teaser :)
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Anonymous - Friday, February 27, 2004 - link
"damn these GPUs are powerful" and they come from? Ati? Nvidia? Is this going to be a "damn I wont know until april/may thing"? Well anyway thx for letting us know.Michael2k - Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - link
Haha, Anand, you need to benchmark Expose/Quartz Extreme!See if there's any difference with an AGP 8x, 4x, and 2x if you can keep everything else constant!
Xenon14 - Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - link
I couldn't hold out any longer. This winter I went from 7200 to 9600 pro (IT BROKE!), just got a 9700Pro.RW - Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - link
the current theory on why the G5 tower speed update has not been released is that there is some big video card update comeing, and Apple wanted to do another "Kick-Ass New Video Card First on the Mac" announcement.GamrGrrl - Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - link
Sounds suspiciously like what you told us about NV30 :)GTaudiophile - Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - link
Are you referring to NV40 or R420 or both?!?Will one card have an edge over the other, or will consumers just have to go with which ever brand they are more loyal to?
Anonymous - Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - link
But Anand always stated wait for the $500 cards to drop.UlricT - Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - link
#11... looks like May '04 from SiS, and Q2 '04 from VIA.Here: http://www.anandtech.com/chipsets/showdoc.html?i=1...
and here:
http://www.anandtech.com/chipsets/showdoc.html?i=1...
mike - Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - link
so i'm guessing anand got his hands on a R420, since there are already finished cards that have been in use (i.e. IDF and other shows) and they really kick ass. heck maybe they're even 3x faster then the 9800 pro like some article/site said.EngenZerO - Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - link
and I was going to order my new pc in two weeks...bleh, I must now wait.