Radeon 9700 MAXX?

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  no way ! true SLI you need multiple boards ! not multiple chips on one board, that's wussing out ! hehehe : Downforce
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    Quantum3D Obsidians weren't "wussing out" in the Voodoo2 days... :p : Toraz Chryx
    • DUDE those things were SOOO heavy. I loved to see them bowing under their own weight ! and can you say... : Downforce

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• *raises hand : norulez
• raises hand, if they release linux drivers : Silent1
• I'll hold out until the NV30 gets released; by then we'll know how good the 9700 is and if ATI has finall... : the archvile
• I upgrade every December, and the fastest wins mah moonay. If NV30 gets pushed back I can wait and see... : aggressor
• Definatly going to wait to see what nvidia has to offer. So many people get burned with bad drivers/suppo... : d3tached
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  Yea. I have a GF2 GTS 32MB, and a few games are starting to tax it. The only thing Im worried about are A... : []v[]adwacker
  • NV30 is a completly new chip. It won't, acording to rumors, be called Geforce, since it's a completly new... : carpediem
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  I am no fool when it comes to Idsoftware games. The only time to upgrade your computer is when Doom III ... : MarksmanX
  • ^^ this man knows what he's talking about. The 9700 looks good, and can run doom. The NV30 (or whatev... : dopeman

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  They do have support for winMe and win98. The winMe drivers have always been the same as the win98 drive... : jjjayb
  • No offense, but no shit. I know they dont have offical 98 drivers, they claim to only support Windows Me ... : chrisxtreme

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  Actually the NV30 "could" still destroy the 9700, but it wouldnt stand a chance aginst the 9700 MAXX. : FuryVII
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    yea you also forget that ati also has a plain old 9700 .13 micron w/ ddr II board on the way as well.... ... : -=kodiak=-
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      no, ATI does not have any plans for an r300 0.13 micron chip. ATi does not have plan to make Radeon 97 : Steve Gibson
      • hummm so what's this r350 then? a new core??? : -=kodiak=-
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    but nvidia has the 3dfx tech to maybe make a nv30 sli, supar mega processing power for only $800! : firehawk
    • You don't want multiprocessor setup on a videocard. The expense is too high. If you can do it on one chi... : MarksmanX
    • I read somewhere(can't remember where) that nvidia doesnt have the sli tech since 3dfx didn't own that pa... : driller
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    Yes, lets make fanboy speculations WHILE NEITHER HARDWARE IS ON THE MARKET YET. God, I can't belive peopl... : crazywigga
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      this the shack though and I believe trident has the best press release so far : stgdz
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        Did someone say Trident? http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1673 : project13
        • hah the computer im building for my sister has a trident intergrated 2d/3d i dunno if im going to put... : -=kodiak=-
    • LOL, who's fighting? Either card could be great. I'll buy the best performace/dollar, that is in the uppe... : FuryVII
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  I don't think this is the time for ATI fanboys to start talking too much shit. I have not seen much on th... : -=fatman=-
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    why not, we sufferd for so long =P im definetly probably going to hang back and see which comes out on... : -=kodiak=-
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      first: you need a new account. the "-=*=-" belong to me...and I will fight for them Second: that is co... : -=fatman=-
      • WHAT ROUND??? They're not even on the MARKET for god sakes. The battle of the hypemeter? : crazywigga

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• november was their target but i doubt that they will get it out before christmas : 666devilman666

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  when was the parhelia buggy ? ATI has the buggy driver history... : Downforce
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    You obviously haven't read the reviews of Parhelia drivers when the NDA was lifted. : MarksmanX
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      who reviewed the drivers ? most people just did 3D runs of the card. links to real sites, not just gamer ... : Downforce
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        Actually it was performance issues. They performed below what parhelia is capable of. But Matrox did make... : MarksmanX
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          that happens to all makers with their first run of drivers. nvidia set the bar high with the Detonator ch... : Downforce
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            Who cares if its the frist run of drivers or not. Fact is consumers pay up to 400 dollars for a video car... : SERIOUSly the SAMe
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              Well that certainly is narrow minded. Hopefully you will expect all Cisco routers, servers, DLT drives to... : Downforce
              • yeah, but umm, don't you remember how long it took Matrox to implement opengl in their older vid cards? a... : carnivore
• Parhelia is disappointing in raw performance terms. the quality of it's 2d output stage is unmatched A... : Toraz Chryx

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  Widespread maybe, more serious? No... : wykd
  • Although, the current state of Nvidia driver stability might be due to programmers writing almost exclusi... : Rotten Deadite

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  umm.. right or.. you could just alternate frames in the same game making it rougly twice as fast... ... : freshview
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    500 fps... If only the game would allow me to fire my weapon every 2 milliseconds! : spl
    • or you could run with a stupid amount of antialiasing at the same speed as a stock card would run it 'nor... : Toraz Chryx

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• I'm understanding that the r350 will be out sometime the 1stQ of next year/this chip will be supporting d... : brutal

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• Wow, I did it again. Sorry, I am too stupid to reply. : Grigory
• ^^^^ WINNAR! : Silent Wolf

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  should be interesting to see. they do have all those 3dfx engineers. : freshview
  • if nothing else it will make for a good show, FIGHT! : Turd Ferguson

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• Rage Fury MAXX, whatever. : onwhite1

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  VPU = Video Processing Unit? : Tissen
  • i think it's visual processing unit : rabone
• sTeve talk to me man ! this is your story !!!! what is this terminology ?!!? : Downforce
• maybe NVidia has a patent out on "GPU". ATI also came up with the name "Charisma Engine", which was atta... : the archvile

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• I enjoy my multi monitor setup, but the 4" gap between the screens really sucks for gaming or watching mo... : e_smokah

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• no, gf5 contender : radicus