Originally posted by: brokenpc
Originally posted by: Rollo
It's nice you joined the board to call nVidia liars.
However, other sources independent of nVidia have verified this limitation, so if you're going to say it's not true, you should provide links to your source?
Otherwise we may not be likely to believe you?
I didn't join this board to call Nvidia liars, I came here to call you a pawn who pays a hell of a lot to be a pawn. At the time, I didn't even know that someone in Nvidia's marketting team made the slides that started it all.
It's nice you joined the board to call me names. One thing this forum needs is
more juvenile name calling!
:roll:
But, immediately, I could tell that this claim has BS slathered all over it. I joined this board (which I've read since before the fall of 3dfx) to be the first to point my finger your way when crossfire is released and reviewed.
Who knows? They may change it now that the "cat is out of the bag" and the whole web is laughing at it.
Strange how the AT benches don't show Crossfire at any higher resolutions than 16X12 though isn't it?
Strange how the guy at Penstarsys got word from people testing it that they couldn't go above 16 X12 60Hz isn't it? (when he clearly wanted to believe it could)
Strange how a product "launched" down in Australia weeks ago has no reviews on the web isn't it?
I don't have to provide links to back up my premise.
You'll have to do better than typing your premise on a forum for me (and anybody smart) to believe you? "Dude- the Earth is flat, and I don't have to provide links to support my premise!" Do you believe me? :roll:
The fact is that I have an underlying belief that should trump any "I heard from a guy who knows a guy that found out that, yes in fact, crossfire testers can't get more than 16x12."
Oh well,
if you have an underlying belief, that's
different! LOL
"Dude, I have an underlying belief the Earth is flat!" Do you believe me? :roll:
If that's the strongest evidence you got, please don't ask me for links.
Well, let's see:
1. nVidia slides have pictures of the part with the chip.
2. Rage3d, the ATI promo site posts this info as a downfall of Crossfire
3. Penstarsys tries to debunk the issue, calls on some beta testers and instead ends up verifying it
4. My friend who works in the graphics card business (at nVidia) told me this weeks ago, and has no reason to lie to me
On the other hand, we have you, an unknown guy joining the board to tell us these claims are "False! False I say!"
Errrr, yeah. You go, Info-Source! :roll:
That belief is I don't think ATI hires crappy designers.
Really? You mean the designers that made the second or third best products all those years before they bought the ArtX R300 design are the
good ones? I see. The guys that made the MAXX- that couldn't run in Win2K and had all sorts of missing/flashing texture problems- those are the
good designers? I see.
I've worked with a lot of good designers and have realized that their goals are to make their company a success. They will work overtme for free just to meet deadlines, they will spent days arguing over the direction of the project, they will access every resource available to them to make sure the design is top-notch.
Oh, so you know some designers "that work
real hard" and ATI designers must be
just like them? Honestly, I'm
laughing as I write this, and I imagine some will laugh pretty hard reading it. Your "logic" makes it seem like you arrived on this planet yesterday, I almost feel like I'm conversing with an alien.
Those designers should be on par with ATI's groups.
Oh? And why is that? Because all designers are just good guys by nature, and they would NEVER limit the Crossfire rig to 60Hz? :roll: (they really should have a "rollo" emoticon for this, I use it so much)
ATI's designers are not going to risk the marketing of this product over the difference of one chip. If they needed a SiI 1171, they would have used it. These guys and girls know what their doing.
Post a link to the evidence they did, and I'll apologize for my error. Until then, all we have is the word of nVidia and two review sites, and yours. Since I've never heard of you, I'll believe ATIs fan site over you.
If you think I'm wrong, then just say it. Tell me you think that ATI hires morons to design products.
I think you're wrong. I think you're very young, or new to the planet. I think ATI makes good decisions sometimes, and bad decisions sometimes. I think they made a bad decision this time, but hope I'm wrong for the sake of anyone who buys this very late to market, and IMO obsolete, tech.
P.S. If you are from another planet, can you travel through time as well as space? I'd like to go back and switch my double major from Psych/Business to Comp Sci/Business.