ZeroXcape Posted February 11, 2002 Share Posted February 11, 2002 http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/finger.pl?id=1&time=20020211165445 Check out what Carmack has to say... it'll save you money when Doom comes around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digl Posted February 11, 2002 Share Posted February 11, 2002 On the topic of current Nvidia cards: Do not buy a GeForce4-MX for Doom. Nvidia has really made a mess of the naming conventions here. I always thought it was bad enough that GF2 was just a speed bumped GF1, while GF3 had significant architectural improvements over GF2. I expected GF4 to be the speed bumped GF3, but calling the NV17 GF4-MX really sucks. GF4-MX will still run Doom properly, but it will be using the NV10 codepath with only two texture units and no vertex shaders. A GF3 or 8500 will be much better performers. The GF4-MX may still be the card of choice for many people depending on pricing, especially considering that many games won't use four textures and vertex programs, but damn, I wish they had named it something else. As usual, there will be better cards available from both Nvidia and ATI by the time we ship the game. Thats the most important (and less technical) part of the update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millions o' Monkeys Posted February 12, 2002 Share Posted February 12, 2002 it was a waste of time and money this time for nvidia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUNNER Posted February 12, 2002 Share Posted February 12, 2002 Why does it have to be so confusing.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Lando Posted February 12, 2002 Share Posted February 12, 2002 Talk about confusing hehe Best Buy's web site erroneously listed the GeForce4 Ti 4600 Graphics Card at $129.99 when it shoudl have been $399.99. The Anandtech hot deals forums went nuts over this last week. Of course best Buy pulled the ad and emailed all preorders that the price would not be honored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrEEpaGe Posted February 13, 2002 Share Posted February 13, 2002 Originally posted by Millions o' Monkeys it was a waste of time and money this time for nvidia oh please....the geforce4mxs are not made to be the best 3d accelerators you can buy.....THEY ARE FOR OEMS!...they are simply a way for nvidia to spread out their domination of the market....ati used to have a hold on the oem market, and with the 4 mx's, they will be shipping them into oem pcs soon, and that will hurt ati very much.... they will gain money from this, even though the geforce4 mx is nothing more than a geforce2 speedup.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txa1265 Posted February 13, 2002 Share Posted February 13, 2002 I am wondering where the mobile market will go next ... my Dell has the GeForce2GO chipset, quite nice for RtCW and MoH:AA (not to mention JK / MotS at 1600 x 1200), and new ones have ATi's new mobile chipset ... I wonder how that does, and when nVidia will have another bump ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormHammer Posted February 13, 2002 Share Posted February 13, 2002 Hmmm...that ATI Radeon 8500 looks a bit more promising every day. Good to see that Carmack mentions support for it in Doom 3. A bit more driver tweaking, and I might be considering that card. I certainly won't be looking at a GF4 any time soon...maybe not for 12-18 months. Unless, of course, money starts growing on trees... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acdcfanbill Posted February 15, 2002 Share Posted February 15, 2002 i wonder... why does the GF3 have full DirectX 8 support, but the GF4 MX doesnt?? hmm, maybe ATI has nVidia shaken in their boots?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUNNER Posted February 15, 2002 Share Posted February 15, 2002 Originally posted by Darth_Lando Talk about confusing hehe Best Buy's web site erroneously listed the GeForce4 Ti 4600 Graphics Card at $129.99 when it shoudl have been $399.99. The Anandtech hot deals forums went nuts over this last week. Of course best Buy pulled the ad and emailed all preorders that the price would not be honored. Those Anandtech boys don't miss a trick do they. I bet the Hotdeals forum was full to capacity with people looking to snag one of those up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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