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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=18112 |   GX-Brandon (266) Nov 01, 2007 - 04:05 am
| Anakris: In general I think you will find that TVs are more competitively priced in comparison to home speakers. Even at Best Buy or wherever, you generally don't have to pay full MSRP for a TV (unless of course you're shopping for a model that just came out).
I've got B&W speakers in my home theater setup for instance, and when shopping for them all the dealers charged the same extraordinarily high prices with the huge markup Alan is referring too. Fortunately I was able to find a nice deal on my mains, but I did pay full MSRP for the rest of my speakers, including the speaker stands. :D
In my case it was something I REALLY wanted, so it took me about 2.5 yrs to save up and buy everything. It was worth it in the end for me though. As Alan and Alexis pointed out in the article, speaker tech doesn't move very fast, so it's a component that will last a long time in your setup. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17953 | GX-Brandon (266) Oct 21, 2007 - 01:29 pm
| Your statements are conflicting, at first you ask for more reviews, but by the end your favorites you listed are all the more general articles. :)
Look, we're not going to be able to please everyone, our audience has grown so big that everyone wants something different. We try our best to provide a mixture of some of the best of everything, but we don't have the time or manpower to review every single product, or dedicate a new article to every single news item. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17953 | GX-Brandon (266) Oct 21, 2007 - 09:12 am
| » knuckles
Well, the stats for the Transformers article were higher than the CoD 4 performance article, despite the fact that the transformers article was just 3 pgs long. So yes, clearly there are a lot of ppl who are reading these comparison articles.
I think the reason the traffic is so high on them is because we're the only ones who have managed to capture HD DVD/Blu-ray screenshots and ppl have been wanting to see image comparisons for the past year now. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17886 | GX-Brandon (266) Oct 17, 2007 - 09:30 am
| | Alan's images are coming directly from the source, so it wouldn't make a difference if he used an HDTV or projector. I honestly don't know why he listed that in there, that would be the equivalent of us listing the monitor used in a GPU review. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17869 | GX-Brandon (266) Oct 15, 2007 - 05:48 pm
| Marvelous: I don't understand why you're upset then. For mainstream and budget cards I do test at 1280x1024. Check out the BioShock article for proof. I've never tested an 8600 GTS-class card at 2560x1600 in any of our articles.
For a high-end setup like 8800 GTX SLI though, 1280x1024 just isn't a res that someone with that kind of PC would run at. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17869 | GX-Brandon (266) Oct 15, 2007 - 03:13 pm
| Marvelous: When you're testing this many different cards there's only so much time in the day for testing (remember I'm doing 7 runs per resolution). So I choose to include more graphics cards rather than more resolutions. I honestly don't think the final conclusion would change all that much if a 1280x1024 graph were added.
What 19" monitor is limited to 1280x1024 anyway? Even an old 19" CRT should be more than capable of running 1600x1200 at 85Hz or better. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17824 | GX-Brandon (266) Oct 11, 2007 - 09:50 pm » Edited on Oct 11, 2007 - 09:55 pm
| Yep. I remember seeing one of his Ferrari's parked in the garage at one of the NV Editor's Day's a few years back. It was a brand new 612 Scaglietti.
EDIT: I believe it was the G70 Editor's Day. I remember because I had to catch a flight to an ATI event later that night. That was the red eye flight from hell. His car was valet parked at the hotel us media types were staying at. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17674 | GX-Brandon (266) Oct 02, 2007 - 03:27 pm
| This article is really, really, REALLY old! When Kelt wrote it NVIDIA's Vista drivers were still terrible, particularly when it comes to SLI vs CrossFire which is why his argument made sense.
It's now October and things are quite different. I believe the original article was posted back in June or early July... Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/46 | GX-Brandon (266) Sep 26, 2007 - 02:21 pm
| I think around this time next year is when you might start seeing the first signs. For the enthusiast shooting for the highest clock speeds, you will see them picking up DDR3 even sooner.
I really don't think DDR3 is going to hit critical mass for at least a year though. When you see Intel release a DDR3 chipset for the mainstream segment, that will be the 1st sign that DDR3 has really arrived.
That's going to have to be the last question for this chat session. It was nice talking with everyone! Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/46 | GX-Brandon (266) Sep 26, 2007 - 01:23 pm
| Really it's the RTS genre who have taken the lead on this. RTS games like Supreme Commander and World in Conflict are definitely pushing quad-core CPUs. In the FPS arena, the most notable quad-core game atm is Lost Planet, although I really haven't seen a tremendous performance boost w/ quad-core from that game. I guess Valve's EP2 is going to utilize quad-core, although I dont know what kind of boost we'll get from quad in that game. Crysis is of course, another game pushing quad-core CPUs.
I really don't think this is the year for quad though. I don't think quad-core is going to really take off until 2008. That's when the apps will really be there, and the CPUs will be priced right. The Q6600 is pretty tough to beat though, if I had to make a purchase today that's what I'd get personally. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/46 | GX-Brandon (266) Sep 26, 2007 - 12:56 pm
| » 2900 Pro
I should also add that I haven't exactly given up on reviewing the 2900 Pro. But I can't give an exact date on when a review would go up just because this is such a limited launch.
Again, because availability is so limited, my guesstimate is this will keep street prices a little higher than the MSRPs announced yesterday. That's just the nature of the beast unfortunately. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/46 | GX-Brandon (266) Sep 26, 2007 - 12:51 pm
| | I think AMD and NVIDIA are just getting better at keeping their stuff secret. That's really the only difference. Obviously they did a really bad job of this in the past (the specs for G80 and R600 were leaked well in advance of the actual launch), but they've now gotten better. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/46 | GX-Brandon (266) Sep 26, 2007 - 12:49 pm
| | As far as the games: yeah, the average game takes something like 2-3 years to develop. So obviously they're way behind the hardware cycle. I think games like Crysis though will REALLY push today's latest hardware. Cevat Yerli even said in his interview on nzone that they've got some features that they will turn on later in the game because its just too demanding for today's cards. Those guys are really pushing the tech it seems. They did the same thing with Far Cry as well of course. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/46 | GX-Brandon (266) Sep 26, 2007 - 12:47 pm
| | Yeah, it definitely is disappearing. I don't think this is due to anything fundamentally changing though. IMO, NVIDIA just didn't feel the need to push the bar forward, instead it seems like they've been pretty content with the GeForce 8 line and you can't blame them all things considered. It sounds like AMD is going to have some competitve parts soon though so NVIDIA will have to respond, and the GPU war will heat up once again. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/46 | GX-Brandon (266) Sep 26, 2007 - 12:41 pm
| | Again, due to NDAs I can't give you a firm answer. But you can look at history to figure this one out. Historically as you know there's the 6-month product cycle. NVIDIA is obviously overdue for their G80 refresh part. And towards the end of this year AMD will be knocking on the door of 6 months for R600. So yeah, based on that I think you can assume something will be coming soon. The clearance sale on R600 (i.e. Radeon 2900 Pro announcement) is further proof of that imo. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/46 | GX-Brandon (266) Sep 26, 2007 - 12:32 pm
| RE: X38: I can't comment on unannounced products, sorry. :( I think enthusiasts should wait until the dust settles in Nov before making a decision on that platform though.
RE: 2900 Pro: Yes, it looks like a very nice card, but as you saw yesterday it's a VERY limited release with just a handful of board partners. PowerColor tells me they're going to be producing a very limited run of cards, so it looks like this GPU is going to have a very short lifespan. I think when you couple this with the limited availability, prices will probably end up being a little higher than the estimated MSRP from yesterday. That's just a guess on my part though based on the past. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/46 | GX-Brandon (266) Sep 26, 2007 - 12:27 pm
| | LOL this is a loaded question! All I'll say is that competition is good for everyone, so obviously I don't want to see AMD go away. They MUST execute on their roadmap if they are going to have any chance of surviving. No more delays! Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/45 | GX-Brandon (266) Sep 19, 2007 - 12:19 pm
| I should elaborate just a bit more on that also.
Don't wait for PCIe 2.0. Obviously we still aren't tapping the full potential of PCIe yet (just look at my X1950 Pro AGP vs PCIe benches for proof of that). Wait because we'll have new hardware before the end of this year that will drive prices on existing components down. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/45 | GX-Brandon (266) Sep 19, 2007 - 12:15 pm
| Okay fisherman Dan summoned me to answer your question.
IMO, the answer is going to depend on what your current setup is like, and if you're happy with its current performance. If you've got a decent rig now then yes, I would wait a few more months before upgrading. If you can't afford to wait though then you've got to do what you've got to do! Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17421 | GX-Brandon (266) Sep 17, 2007 - 10:06 am
| | froggz: The question is IF we get the Toshiba and Xbox 360. We'd like to include more players, but it's kind of impractical for us to go out and buy all of this stuff. And we can't use our own personal 360s because none of us on staff have a 360 w/HDMI, and we need HDMI to take the screenshots. Flag this | Edit this post |
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