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Originally posted by Nick
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I think thats going a bit far, and could probably only really be done with a whole bunch of extremely slopping coding. -
So your basically saying that ID software has a bunch of sloppy coding?Comment
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:rolleyes2, I dunno. But anyway I think that I willk be happy with my Radeon for awhile.Comment
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Another article on the NV30, 400mhz vpu and 128bit memory according to The Inquirer. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5794Comment
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Yeah you will be happy with radeon for a while. But I think the NV30 will blow the radeon out of the water.....but you wont notice the difference until games come out that can take advantage of the hardware ( which might be a while!)
But 400mhz....that is sick, sick I say. Absoulutely sick. I still remeber the day I got my p2 300Mhz, and thinking it was badass. heheComment
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No, but its also not going to follow nicks statement.Originally posted by ReSpAwN DeMoNComment
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Well ya but you gotta understand something. There are companies out there that do have the capablilities of bringing down current computer hardware to its knees. ID is a number one example of this. Every release they have ever come out with has brought down PC hardware to a crawling state. Except for maybe return to castle wolfenstien as it is based on the Quake 3 engine but does have better graphics I will give it that. But the original Doom series bogged down the 86 family (286 386 486) The entire aquake series did it as well. As for quake 3 which is now a more then 3 year old game. Is STILL to this very day used for benchmarking and system stability tests. MFG's all over are STILL using the Quake 3 engine has a development platform for there games. EA did it with MOH. Just think a more then 3 yera old game has all this power. You won't even beginn to remotly imagine what Doom 3 will have the power to do. Its supposed to replace the Quake 3 engien and quake 4 will be built upon its technologies. I guess that's if ID still owns the quake rights as I heard it was sold to raven software. IMHO doom 3 will probably give a Pentium 4 2.8GHz and an NV30 a good run.Comment
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According to The Inquirer, the NV30 will use DDR II memory clocked at 1000mhz.
This has to confirm that the NV30 will be a Jan/Feb 2003 part, with the possibility of a very small amount of cards being available for Christmas.Comment
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I didn't know about the DDR2 part but ya that long time from now is exactly right. That's why Nvidia is releasing more geforce 2 and geforce 3 based cards as geforce 4 cards by the holiday's. Just to stay in the competition.Comment
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That would be terrible marketing doing that... For some reason I have a hard time belieivng that.Originally posted by wetaComment
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You're right, they must have at least one version of the NV30 on the shelves at Christmas, otherwise they'll look like muppets
But I can't see it being the 400mhz version with the 1000mhz DDR II memory. It might be the 350mhz version with 800mhz memory.
I hope I'm wrong, I'm desperate to upgrade my existing Hercules Prophet II GTS. (I could always buy a 3D Prophet 9700pro instead)Comment
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In an interview with Florence Shih, Sales and Marketing Director of Abit, Virtual Zone asked her when they (Abit) would be launching their NV30 card.
Her answer, Nvidia is expected to annouce the NV30 at Comdex, and we will announce ours too at the same time. An Abit NV30 with OTES 2 cooling,
thats gotta fly..................................... http://www.vr-zone.com/Interviews/ABIT/Comment
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There are a couple of articles at PC Rave that I think relate directly to the NV30.
1. Yesterday ATI demonstrated a Radeon 9700pro running on DDR 2 memory.
2. Microsoft are now saying that DirectX9 may not come out until next year.
Microsoft/Nvidia have worked very closely on this program, so Nvidia wouldn't be to happy if it
was released before they had a product ready to support it, especially when ATI has.Comment
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Of course, in order to keep the word that was given to investers, the company may sell 500 to 1500.............
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