Anyways I don't know how people can read or trust such a shitty site like that one. Here is an excerpt from one of their articles: "THE LATEST DRIVER out from the guys in Satan Clara, dubbed ForceWare"
I mean come on, how fucking lame is that? Nvidia is not the devil. WTF??? How more biased can you get? And I am supposed to believe anything those guys are saying about Nvidia. As far as I know they made that email up.
nvidia do this stuff when they get worried about compotition, check back when the kyro2 was out, it was faster in a decent system then the gf2gts, a card that was 2x the price or more, i had both, infact i still have the gf2gts(got it back in a trade from the buddy who bought it off me years back)the kyro2 i had got killed by a mobo that over volted it.
both cards where good, but with a decent chip behind it the kyro2 was faster dispite lacking a t&l engine.
well after the kyro2 and TBR got good press nvidia sent out a letter to a bunch of people showing why TBR was/is bad dispite it being a better design then what nvidia or ati where/are using.
Lol, and the 3870x2 gets beaten in a couple of benches by the lowly single 8800GTS 512Mb
early drivers, wait and see once they update the drivers and add new profiles
This kind of makes me think... If 3DFX had to resort to two core on one PCB to catch up with its competition and it later just disappeared. Kind of makes me assume that AMD might end up with the same fate as 3DFX.
3dfx died not because of the 2 chip solution but because they tryed to cut out all their old partners by only making their own cards, 3dfx would likely still be around had they kept using their orignal method of selling partners chips insted of making their own cards.
also 3dfx was arrogant, they insisted for the longist time that there was no need for 32bit colour in gfx cards that their dithered 16bit was just as good(it wasnt!!!) everybody else was putting out cards that could do 32bit, tnt could do 32bit in games, rage128 was NATIVE 32bit colour, yes NATIVE, the 2k/nt drivers sucked for the rage128 cards tho.....
I don't really think it's going that way yet - don't forget, even ATI has done two procs on one board before . . . but it was during the whirlwind 3D Accelerator firestorm, and it was quickly dismissed amoungst 3DFX's and nVidia's lineup at the time. Difference here, though, is that 3DFX made some really bull-headed business moves that dug their hole and buried them. A struggling company can do alright in a niche market, as long as you have other business their to invest and support you - once you burn your bridges, though, and your niche is dying, you're done. ATI hasn't severed any ties yet, quite the contrary if you consider what all AMD has been partnering with recently . . . and although ATI's IQ superiority has been matched by nVidia within the last couple of years, ATI still has a slowly growing loyal base that have been very happy with their impressive support, stable hardware, stable drivers, and performance that is still quite relevant and impressive when you look at it from a "sit down and play it" viewpoint, instead of the FRAPS and 3m06 benchmarks.
acctualy its bee a few times ati has done dual chips on a card.
rage 128 maxx edition was 2 rage128 chips on 1 card, it never got proper driver support tho, hence it died out pretty fast.
x1950pro x2 by sapphire(sapphire=ati ati=sapphire)
38*0 x2 cards
the x1950pro x2 was/is still a nice card, my buddy has one, its a great performer, and has kept him from bothering to get an 8800gt or 2900/38*0 card because the perf boost would be so very small compared to what he already has.....
Again this is just one more time nvidia is bad mothing the compotition from fear/worries......
(for GPU's anyway)
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