Guess the name of the vid card

[digitalwanderer]

Originally posted by CaptNKILL
uhm... am I the only person who doesnt like being dragged around in circles for nothing?

.....I didnt expect to be chatting about something interesting while the few people who knew what was going on laughed at us.

I thought it was fun, until I discovered the reasons I believed it was a possibility was total BS and it was just someone having a giggle at me expense.

I guess you ain't the only person then.

:(

[creedamd]

I guess the nvidiots needed something to brighten their day, nvidia sure as hell isn't going to give it to them so they have to make stuff up. lmao it was done with an ati as well bwahahahah..

[tempnexus]

HERE IT IS!!!

THIS IS THE CARD USED

SOME SET US UP THE BOMB!!!!


http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/ob/Synapse-card-detail.jpg

yes DeJaVu for Rage :)

[mikechai]

Originally posted by MuFu
Relax, lah. Go eat some rambutans and watch Astro or something...

MuFu.

You know quite a bit about Malaysia, do you?

[Uttar]

Originally posted by MuFu
Definitely not faked screenshots (would have to be on quite a powerful CPU though).

I am quite suprised anybody thought this was genuine, even momentarily!

You're EVYL, MuFu! :)
Gave me a good laugh once I realized you had us all, though.


Uttar

[requiem99]

As quick to denounce it as fake as you were to accept it as real, aren't you?

I never claimed it was something outrageous like r3x0, but I sure had fun letting Mufu think it was, AFAIK r3x0 won't tapeout for quite a while. It is a legitimate score (it WAS run at default settings) obtained on preview hardware. It is overclocked. I broke a couple other Futuremark rules however, which would render the score invalid for online comparison if this was a final product. Its also safe to say these results are not typical of what to expect when this board finally makes it to market.

You get all nasty on me and no one is ever going to find out what it really was.

I apologize to those who saw the original title of the thread and thought there would be actual nv40 preview benches, that was my mistake I couldn't think of a better misleading title. Sorry.

[ErrorS]

Originally posted by requiem99
As quick to denounce it as fake as you were to accept it as real, aren't you?

I never claimed it was something outrageous like r3x0, but I sure had fun letting Mufu think it was, AFAIK r3x0 won't tapeout for quite a while. It is a legitimate score (it WAS run at default settings) obtained on preview hardware. It is overclocked. I broke a couple other Futuremark rules however, which would render the score invalid for online comparison if this was a final product. Its also safe to say these results are not typical of what to expect when this board finally makes it to market.

You get all nasty on me and no one is ever going to find out what it really was.

I apologize to those who saw the original title of the thread and thought there would be actual nv40 preview benches, that was my mistake I couldn't think of a better misleading title. Sorry.

how about....... a pic with the res + details? no PS

[MuFu]

Originally posted by requiem99
I never claimed it was something outrageous like r3x0... AFAIK r3x0 won't tapeout for quite a while.

Arghahahahah!!! That makes no sense whatsoever.


...there is so much going on behind the scenes right now in the chipset world its not even funny.

Yeah, the chipset world is CRAZY!


You get all nasty on me and no one is ever going to find out what it really was.

Ah well that's convenient, huh? ;)

I must admit I fell for it initially... I mean, how could I not with your history of BS on Rage3D, total lack of technical/industry knowledge, single unsubstantiated screenshot and the old "had to remove it otherwise I'll get fired" routine? :D

MuFu.

[Unit01]

Well at least this BS crap is removed from the frontpage. Though i'm not surprised it was put there in the first place. Not the first time they did it. And now we know it's really nvnews :D

[Paul]

Damn the brocolli, damn you and damn the Wright brothers!

:argh:

[creedamd]

Originally posted by requiem99
As quick to denounce it as fake as you were to accept it as real, aren't you?

I never claimed it was something outrageous like r3x0, but I sure had fun letting Mufu think it was, AFAIK r3x0 won't tapeout for quite a while. It is a legitimate score (it WAS run at default settings) obtained on preview hardware. It is overclocked. I broke a couple other Futuremark rules however, which would render the score invalid for online comparison if this was a final product. Its also safe to say these results are not typical of what to expect when this board finally makes it to market.

You get all nasty on me and no one is ever going to find out what it really was.

I apologize to those who saw the original title of the thread and thought there would be actual nv40 preview benches, that was my mistake I couldn't think of a better misleading title. Sorry.


hahaha... what a looooooooser! Got life?

[digitalwanderer]

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[MuFu]

Originally posted by mikechai
You know quite a bit about Malaysia, do you?

Yes. Being half Malaysian helps. :)

MuFu.

[Solomon]

Originally posted by requiem99
As quick to denounce it as fake as you were to accept it as real, aren't you?

I never claimed it was something outrageous like r3x0, but I sure had fun letting Mufu think it was, AFAIK r3x0 won't tapeout for quite a while. It is a legitimate score (it WAS run at default settings) obtained on preview hardware. It is overclocked. I broke a couple other Futuremark rules however, which would render the score invalid for online comparison if this was a final product. Its also safe to say these results are not typical of what to expect when this board finally makes it to market.

You get all nasty on me and no one is ever going to find out what it really was.

I apologize to those who saw the original title of the thread and thought there would be actual nv40 preview benches, that was my mistake I couldn't think of a better misleading title. Sorry.

Do you realize you just contradicted yourself? LOL! You first say: It is a legitimate score (it WAS run at default settings) obtained on preview hardware

If it was a legitimate score the Futuremark servers wouldn't reject it. If it was run on preview hardware ala video card, CPU, etc.. It would say the name of the hardware because the drivers would have had to tag the card with at least a name or a code name. Futuremark doesn't care the name of the hardware. If the CPU/Motherboard was new or what not, it would put, "Unknown Chipset". Then you make the mistake of saying:
I broke a couple other Futuremark rules however, which would render the score invalid for online comparison
Um... how is this possible? If you ran the benchmark with a legitmate score on default settings. It wouldn't matter. The server would accept it. Unless you have an illegal registered version. This is the only logical reason why your score is so high is because the Pro version is the only one that allows you to change the resolution to 640x480. That would mean if you did a legit run through. You are using an illegal patched 3DMark03 to turn it into a Professional edition which would make you not be able to upload it.

I think you should of first done some research on how Futuremark lists the results. Because what you are saying is false. Unless you are hoping people are stupid. It's obvious that you ran it at 640x480 or 320x200 or what not. Because if you seriously ran it at it's default resolution. There is no reason even if the hardware is new or secret or whatever. The server wouldn't reject it.

Which brings up an interesting question. If you really have this secret hardware. Don't you think the company would be legit and have purchased a legit copy? LOL! Nice try requiem99... You are about as believable as a monkey with 10 arms.

Regards,
D. Solomon Jr.
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[The Baron]

Well... I think it's a Cirrus Logic R666FX. :D

[Razer]

Anyone remember that voodoo5 card 3dfx planned to make for cgi film production using over 100 GPUs? Perhaps a prototype was made....
And to whoever it was who thinks my decision on getting a 9800 over nv30 is stupid wake up dammit, any developers pushing nvidia hardware are doing it cause they're being helped by nvidia developer teams eg Epic, you dont see carmack saying good things about nv30 design do you? And its pixel processing is a hardware problem, it can only do 12 pixel ops/ cycle when _nv extensions are used and for most games developers will allways code the dx9 standard code ie ARB2 extensions with the radeon is far superior at and nv extensions give lower image quality (carmacks own words)

[Uttar]

Originally posted by Razer
and nv extensions give lower image quality (carmacks own words)

:lol2:

Carmack did say nV extensions, in HIS implementation, resulted in lower image quality. nV Extensions are very flexible, and you could in fact get quality as high, if not higher, with them than with DX9.
Performance wouldn't be better than in DX9 then, of course. But it's possible.

What's important to realize too is that Carmack himself said the IQ difference is pretty much insignifiant. It does exist, yes, but Carmack knows what he's doing. He won't sacrify IQ as much as some people think - Heck, I'd bet you won't even be able to see the IQ difference ( that is, without AA/AF.... ) between a R3xx and a NV3x in the final game...


Uttar

[Razer]

yes but why sacrifice IQ for speed, remember in reviews where radeon iq was CAREFULLY set equal to the fx's the radeon beat it by an even larger margin. I used to be an nvidia fan boy too but I've finally had to face facts, nvidias only hope is that det 4Xs on fx have been **** and 50 series will be much better. I'll will probably hold out to see det 50 performance as i dont think ATi can get much more speed from R300/350 cores with new drivers much longer, unless fbuffer offer lots of new optimisations. Also doest 9800 meet current opengl 2.0 specs i know nv30/35 doesnt, nearly does, but not quite (beyond3d has a lot on this)

update - I also find it worring that fx is so slow at standard dx9 calls like ARB2, since like i said it is the standard. I really do hope det50s make up the performance difference but i just dont see how it'll put it above the radeon the card just doesnt have the fillrate required

[GlowStick]

Razer, the 9800Pro dose not meet OGL 2.0 specs, that is their PR department KNOWINGLY and BLATENLY lieing to the customers.

Its very close, and id HOPE they make it with future driver updates so it tells OGL it supports it, just some features that games WONT use but are included are done in software etc. the 9800pro is RELLY close though, good enough imho.

[Razer]

whats it lacking? i know that ATi added quite a few features to catch up with nv30 other than fbuffer. Lots of nv30 features are kind of nv30 specific and probably wont become standard in the next year or two, reminds me of the t buffer on voodoo5

[GlowStick]

Originally posted by Razer
whats it lacking? i know that ATi added quite a few features to catch up with nv30 other than fbuffer. Lots of nv30 features are kind of nv30 specific and probably wont become standard in the next year or two, reminds me of the t buffer on voodoo5

Everything thats been added to the OGL2.0 since the chip was finalized............ OGL2.0 still in development.

[Razer]

how many years is it now lol

[Lezmaka]

most games developers will allways code the dx9 standard code ie ARB2 extensions

Do you even know what you're talking about? DX9 and ARB are two totally different things. ARB2 extensions are not an example of DX9 code.

yes but why sacrifice IQ for speed

Then why complain that NV30 is so much slower when running DX9 code? Just run everything at full 32bit precision, and you'll get better quality than the Radeon which only runs at 24bit precision. Why sacrifice IQ for speed? Here's why... what if you can't tell the difference? ATI does that for it's AF but you aren't complaining about that because you don't really notice the difference unless you zoom in on screen shots. I haven't seen anyone come up with a comparison yet, but I doubt you'd be able to tell much of a difference between a frame rendered with 16bit precision and one with 24bit precision.

[volt]

Yes, thank you. Move along.