From an Asssociate Press Technology article published today:- Chris Donahue, group manager of Microsoft's Games for Windows unit, admits that DX10 is an example of the PC surpassing the consoles. The company's own Xbox 360, for example, uses a custom version of the older DX9 standard that can't be...

I read many posts talking about Farcry and it's good thing. I have to ask how good is this game, gameplay and fun wise? I know it's got beautiful visuals and so forth, but so did Unreal2, which turned out to be one booring game. I didn't even finish it (or maybe I did, can't bother...

Hi Folks, I am getting ready to build a "Media Center" PC and considering using MMC v9.08 and the ATI remote wonder which I currently have installed on my daily use PC (Asus PC-DL mainboard/ATI 8500AIW videocard). Operating system is XPpro SP2. I have a DSR6000 DirectTV Tivo series one hooked...

Hi Troops, After much deliberation I finally decided to deep six my venerable 9800Pro/128 and replace it with a 6800GS/AGP. I'm trying to decide between the eVGA and the XFX cards. Both are clocked and have 350MHz cores and 1000MHz memory. The only difference is that the XFX has dual DVI while...

....WHAT - A - DISASTER!!! My tech specs: WinXP home SP2 Abit IS7 mobo P4c HT 2.60ghz 1 gb Kingston Dual channel PC3200/DDR400 Value RAM Maxtor 80gb 7200rpm/8mb on a seralell (Siralell?) adapter Maxtor 40gb 7200/2MB storage disc

You can pick up a 9800 Pro for £85 ($140) just now and I was wondering how this card compares (on an AGP system) with more modern cards? Do X700/800 or nVidia 6600/6800 blow it away? Can it play modern games? And will be able to play new games that come out in the next 12 months? And, finally,...

The funny thing is I would guess that with the faster system memory speeds DIME (or is it AGP texture memory) would be more viable than ever. I mean we're finally getting system memory fast enough (and in large enough quantities) to keep up w/AGP speeds and they get rid of AGP completely? I'd think...

Dammit! My X800 XT Platinum just arrived today. I was so friggin happy especially with Half-Life 2 coming out tomorrow. I open it up and what do I see? No friggin video card! There was actually a PACK OF BATTERIES to make it feel like it was to weight. What a bunch of BS! And their customer service...

I'm in the process of selecting some bits to stop the incessant wine of my PC, with the 9800 Pro and P4 stock cooler being the worst offenders. Having looked around the web, the Zalman ZM80C seems to be the best as far as noise is concerned - am I correct? Are there any alternatives I may...

Well... I thought I had a pretty darned kick-ass machine, until I tried to play FarCry. :) From what I've been reading, my biggest problem with FarCry is that I have only 512MB of RAM. So, I'm planning to buy another 512MB. Here's the hitch: I'm running Win98SE (please - no discussion of why...

get the hercules 9600 pro or better yet get a hercules or sapphire 9800 non pro . i prefer the hercules because of the ram sinks and it just runs cooler. and then flash the bios to a 9800 pro. works like a charm coz ati obviously has only a different bios for the pro version. -- !@#Bourne "To kill...

So Nvidia bypassed the 3dmark2003-330 anti-cheat patch in their latest official drivers?!? That's what this article says http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/antidetect/index.html If true this is un-freaking-believable. It takes brass balls to do that. Hats off to the Nvidia legal and marketing...

Skybuck Flying wrote: Hi, Today's CPUs are in the 3000 to 4000 MHZ clock speed range. Today's GPU's are in the 250 to 600 MHZ clock speed range. I am wondering if GPU's are holding back game graphics performance because their clock speed is so low ?

Hey fat wad, I hope you get cancer, it'll tune your ' half-life ' aerial to what's important in life, instead of jacking off to a couple of thousand polygons floating around the screen. Having to listen to your messianic ramblings about a ****ing computer game for the last year or so, from you...

I have AIW 8500dv with 6.14 driver version and 9.2 Multimedia( ATI says that is the latest for that card). It is connected to a 225bw Samsung FP. with latest driver. When I connect with VGA I have no problems. When I connect with DVI, I also have no problems at all, except just with the boot...

http://gear.ign.com/articles/735/735860p1.html To try to get to the bottom of this situation, IGN contacted Microsoft and asked a few tough questions. Plenty of questions remain -- we're waiting to hear even more from the company -- but here's what we have so far. IGN: Will games begin to be...

Looking at a couple of models available in NZ: Asus EAX1600PRO Video Card, Radeon X1600 Pro, 512MB, DDR2, PCIe-16, TV out, DVI Dual head NZ$272 Gigabyte GV-RX16P256DE-RH Video Card, Radeon X1600 Pro, 256MB, DDR2, PCIe-16, TV out, DVI, HDTV, CrossFire Dual head NZ$275.85 Pricing from ascent.co.nz

I recently have noticed that lots of 3d shooters I have installed have problems with my soundcard. I notice when playing that the games have stuttering sounds. it will stutter, and its very annoying. Its just 3d games though, games that use direct x heavily in particular. I have: athlon xp 1800+

A good interview with Tim Sweeney on the development of the future Unreal 3 engine: http://www.beyond3d.com/interviews/sweeney04/ He says "...we're going to make a game that brings today's GeForce FX's and Radeon 9700+'s to their knees at 640x480! :-) We are targetting next-generation consoles...

Hi Well I thought I'd spec my new AIW 9800 pro, sitting in a A7N8X deluxe rev2 bios 1007with a Athlon XP 3200+ 400fsb running at 2.37 with 768megs of OCZ pc3200EL ram. System is clocked at 11 x 211 stable running prime95 for 12 hrs. My 3dmark03 was in and around 3800, I was choked, its a fresh XP...