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by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Nov 14, 2007 6:13am PST

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How is everyone doing today? I zonked out a bit early last night, still trying to get rid of whatever is going around. Busy day though, with Rocket Race enthusiasm bringing it into mainstream Halo 3. I wonder how people will react? Probably just like they mistreat Oddball with vetoes. :( Don't they know it's only the best melee weapon? Poor Skulley. Still more stuff to bring together this morning, but I think we'll run a contest in the chatty today too. We have two copies of Gears of War PC, courtesy of Microsoft and Epic. In order to qualify, post your best co-op gaming story in this thread, and we'll post winners tomorrow.

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http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/AMD_Radeon_HD3850_and_HD3870_-_AMD%27s_salvation%3F/5392.html

8800GT still beats the new ATI card

Nov 14, 2007 3:44pm PST

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http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/AMD_Radeon_HD3850_and_HD3870_-_AMD%27s_salvation%3F/5392.html 8800GT s... : abrasion
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- ATI and AMD both had better invent something right quick. : FushigiDenki
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  its also $60 cheaper : kill9
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    the ATI card i mean : kill9
    - That's only true if you've been able to get a stock one.... its still cheaper, but I bought an overclocke... : Crimson
    - I don't change loyalties in PC hardware unless I'm offered an exceptional reason why. When I switche... : abrasion
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  that cooler looks lame, the see through red has got to stop- reading now : GBeer11
  - I wasn't aware you were required to stare at your components while computing. : EvilDolemite
  - IA on the transparent red thing, it looks so,... cheap and nasty but it is also ATI's trademark (and hone... : abrasion
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  Whats with these names? Unless you stay up to date with the latest cards, you'll never know which one is... : chuck577
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    Yeah, I'm completely out of the loop when it comes to ATI cards. NVIDIA is bad, with all their GT, GTS, G... : ArB
    - Maybe they hired the same ad agency to think up the names. : TwiLyght
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  They are both going balls out in GPGPU computing, the next years will be very interesting. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    Did you bring back any presentations from AstroGPU 2007? I couldn't go because registration closed befor... : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
    - Really? They extended it until the beginning of last week and that's how I got in (simulcast only, though... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  It's cool to see them bringing out PCIe 2.0 board 10 seconds after I just got a monster rig without 2.0. ... : festivalman
  - Nothing takes advantage of that yet and 2.0 cards are backwards compatible with 1.0 : mrwolf710
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  "At US$179 and US$239 MSRP for the HD3850 and HD3870 respectively, the HD3870 will costs a good USD$60 do... : MikkleThePickle
  - ^^^ : abrasion
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  I still think I'll go ATI again at some point... it's pretty obvious to me nvidia cheats on drivers and p... : thebigbeefsandwich
  - pretty obvious based on what? : pyrogen
  - ok. : atom519
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    "it's pretty obvious to me nvidia cheats on drivers and puts in 'optimizations' pretty much all the time"... : Robotic Puppy Eater
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      I vaguely remember nvidia doing this during the Q3A days, and they did it recently on crysis didn't they? : monikerdaven
      
      that was on a "beta" driver... I'm sure in the process of working out performance tweaks things don't l... : Shadowdane
      
      http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/67909965/m/3870977692/p/1 I bought an 8500 when they w : yakz
  - What? You've got to be kidding me. : warcrow
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    loooooool : eeeealmo
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      that has seriously got to be the stupidest thing ive ever read on shack. honestly. hands down. lol : eeeealmo
      
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      read about the crysis drivers. or the far cry drivers with hacked up shader display for their older cards when their ps 2.0 sucked. or compare how they do AA and AF (supposedly better by the 8xxx line but I've yet to see some extremely detailed report - meaning lots of screens -for 8800gt) believe me I pay attention to the stuff and it adds up. I miss the days where ATI cards were fast enough where I didn't have to worry about any monkey business like this because I really, really don't trust nvidia as far as IQ goes. that's just my experience, feel free to break out the nvidia fanboy nerd rage squad to patronize me like it matters!
      
      Nov 14, 2007 6:15pm PST
      
      read about the crysis drivers. or the far cry drivers with hacked up shader display for their older cards... : thebigbeefsandwich
  - [citation needed] : delataur

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