Originally posted by: Rollo
Originally posted by: apoppin
Rollo liked the Rage MAXX . . .Originally posted by: CaiNaM
of course i don't know why rage fury maxx isn't included either (and frankly x-fire doesn't belong on this list -- not yet anyway)
that's why
:Q
it was an abomination that couldn't live up to ATI's promise to make it work with Win2K
Teh MAXX was teh roxor.
ATIs Rage Fury chip was WAY behind the GF1 in driver quality and speed. So what does ATI do?
Cobbles two of them together on a board to make the a close second place card where two inferior GPUs render every other frame.
It was a totally cool solution that would have went over a lot better if they could have worked out those nagging details like synching the AFR, flashing textures, and Win2K.
I didn't use Win2K, so I only experienced two of its weaknesses. I can tell you this- I'd take flashing textures at times and jumpy fps over looking at 60Hz flashing in front of me like some 70s disco.
lol.. umm.. right.. flashing textures aren't a negative.. nor the cost, nor the fact it really didn't match up to the competition, that the drivers were a bit "iffy" and were limited to win98 - oh, and ati basically just dropped support of it. somehow i just don't see those limitations as better than 60hz@1600 (which doesn't affect lcd users anyway) on a "tech" (it's not a video card) which really hasn't even made it into production.
at best you could say it was only a failure on the scale of nv30... there were, after all both failures which were "cool" for design as well as appearance.