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volt · 08-29-02, 10:30 AM

Just a thought. Why do people care so much about 3DMark. It's just a synthetic benchmark and a war of "scores". I would worry more about how games perform rather how many points I gain heh

Haven't installed 40's yet, though I will when I get to my rig

08-29-02, 10:30 AM	#37
volt Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: /dev/null Posts: 1,556	Just a thought. Why do people care so much about 3DMark. It's just a synthetic benchmark and a war of "scores". I would worry more about how games perform rather how many points I gain heh Haven't installed 40's yet, though I will when I get to my rig __________________ [b]Optimization guidelines by Koji Ashida of NVIDIA:[/b][list][]Use fx12 instructions whenever possible[]Use lowest pixel shader version[/list][url=http://developer.nvidia.com/docs/IO/10878/ChinaJoy2004_OptimizationAndTools.pdf]source[/url] [size=1]The politics are invading the technology. We don't really like to mess with politics because that kind of adversarial relationship has nothing to do with pure technical operations and the technical specifications of what we like to play with, the hardware![/size] Last edited by volt; 08-29-02 at 10:45 AM.