MaximumPC Mag 'Kick @ss' rating...

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Any comments about the rateing MaximumPC gave the GFFX5900 256MB?

They both received '9's, but only the GF got a Kick A.

Were they using 'tweaked' benchmarks? LOL
 
I just read that today and again we see another nvidia biased article:

We're pleased to report that we could detect virtually no difference between the nvidia and ati qaulity settings when running side by side antialiasing and ansio tests.
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well they do not take screen shots and they do not post them either.


Max PC gives a product that cannot compete with the R350 a kick ass award? Obviously the tester needs to rma is eyes as they are full of cataracts.


even the heavily biased hardocp notes that ATI's IQ is second to none...
 
isn't will smith the looser that came in here defending his benchmarking as the only way to do it and refused to take our points into consideration?

yeah, thought so
 
Considering this article is directly related to a non-ATI card, please post in the Other Non-ATI Video Cards forum. Moved.
 
Does anyone know if they ever gave the 9700pro or 9800pro a *kick ass award*???

These *Beep* still think they can defend their positions as non biased. Remember when they did the 5800 review they also claimed they could see no difference. Even though we know at that time they used ballanced mode on the FX.

Now supposedly even though the card fails miserably at every single Dx9 test. And they used known cheating drivers, and it gets absolutly smoked in max IQ tests (maxed AA+AF) and it still loses most of thge newer game tests like Comanche 4, Splinter Cell, Neverwinter Knights, and Warcraft-III...

It still rates a *kick ass* award when they never issued one to an Ati product that I know of, even though ATi has been leading by a HUGE margin for most of a year. No every time they review an ATi card they always mention its *good for now* *but nvidia products are comming* total BS crapola.
 
Hellbinder said:
Does anyone know if they ever gave the 9700pro or 9800pro a *kick ass award*???
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Yes. They gave the 9800Pro one. I have the issue.

I can scan it if you want.

I have never seen the one with the 9700Pro, though..
 
Hellbinder said:
These *Beep* still think they can defend their positions as non biased. Remember when they did the 5800 review they also claimed they could see no difference. Even though we know at that time they used ballanced mode on the FX.
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Same article.. and I quote:

"But we can tell you that the 9800's 2xAA is comparable to nVidia's Quincinux and even 4xAA mode. Textures are more vibrant and less filtered looking on the 9800 as well. We ran the two cards side by side so we could do direct visual comparisons, and differences were immediately apparent. WINNER: ATI"

Later on it goes to show the 9800 beating out the FX in numerous benchmarks.
 
And almost all of the systems they review have a radeon product in them, and more often then not it gets a "Kick ass" rating.

Although I think they're biased, I don't think they're a lost cause.
 
One of our Brit mags, I forget which one, had a preview of the 5900 in it this month. Their star quote was ... "We are proud to say that the 5900 is the one truly future proof gfx card that your money can buy".

If ATI can't change those attitudes then they'll never conquer the market in under five years, and by that time I'm sure even nvidia could have made a come back.
 
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Same article.. and I quote:

"But we can tell you that the 9800's 2xAA is comparable to nVidia's Quincinux and even 4xAA mode. Textures are more vibrant and less filtered looking on the 9800 as well. We ran the two cards side by side so we could do direct visual comparisons, and differences were immediately apparent. WINNER: ATI"

Later on it goes to show the 9800 beating out the FX in numerous benchmarks.
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If thats True then whats with the Conclusion about no difference in IQ????
 
The article I was referring to was the 9800Pro review (April issue).. Where it was compared to the GeForceFX 5800.

The conclusion about IQ not being different is from the FX 5900 Review.

Either they are lying, or nVidia has finally figured out how to make things look good.

Now all they need to do is increase the performance of their hardware and stop lying, cheating, and threatening for a full year before they are okay in my book.

We wont know how good the 5900 really is until it comes out, and actual users start saying things about it...

I'm thinking about getting it just so I can find flaws in it and post them here and at nV news.
 
Yeuemmaimai said:
even the heavily biased hardocp notes that ATI's IQ is second to none...
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That's funny.

This is on Nvidia's driver page:

“Along with a considerable performance bump in key applications, NVIDIA takes great strides in the image quality department with Detonator FX,” said Kyle Bennett, editor in chief of HardOCP (www.hardocp.com). “In my opinion, the image quality NVIDIA delivers with Detonator FX is second to none.”

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=IO_20030512_7261
 
Crawdaddy79 said:
Either they are lying, or nVidia has finally figured out how to make things look good.
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The 5900 does have improved AF over the 5800, so is probably on a par if not slightly better than ATi's offerings, but the AA is still the same poor implementation.
 
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