I think what powervr2 meant by that MDK2 statement is that even without hardware T&L the Kyro II still shines.. thanks to his Duron cpu. Heck, if your CPU is mighty enough, T&L just aint necessary. To which STM claimed that their Kyro generation didnt needed T&L because todays (over a year ago) in game T&L can be handled by the CPU fine.. and its true.
It's good to see some folks know their 3d history.. but wasnt it the first mainstream 3d accelerator was the Rendition V1000, appearing in the 3d Blaster series.. then came along the PowerVR and Voodoo 1. But PowerVR never got strong on the PC platform, they were mostly dominant in arcade machines only. It then became the Rendition vs 3dfx war, leading to the collasp of Rendition because at the time, sub 30 fps even though graphics looked beautiful wasnt good enough.. hence Voodoo 1 with its crap graphics but higher FPS won. I still remember playing PC FF7 on my rendition + voodoo1 setup, opting to use the verite instead because the graphics were so much better.. at the lost of not seeing at 8bit backgrounds.. i was wandering around blind, guided by only triangle signs for exit points!! But boy oh boy, were the battles brilliant!!
Im actually amazed to see how well Kyros perform, considering its technolgy (tile rendering) has evolved in a very short time span. Not to mention the Kyro II is outdated technolgy, since it never changed much at all from Kyro I, which was partially based on Neon cores.. designed well before TNT2 became mainstream.
To say that nVidia doesnt care to a customer complain would mean its bad marketting strategy. Ofcourse they care, else they lose customers to other brands. Its all about money. They care a lot, thats why they are constantly developing new technology. When they stop caring, they oughta pack up, lay down and die. nVidia's push is great.. but some people think if it werent for nVidia other companies wouldnt be releasing new technology today. I dont agree to this, considering STM and ATI had their roadmaps planned all along.. do you think STM would have just kick back, relax and let their PowerVR stale? The technology race isnt just amongs competition, its amongs previous generation technolgy as well. While its true ATI original wanted OEM domination only.. but with nVidia eating up their shares, they had to fight back.
It was a tough choice on my new video card upgrade.. i had three options: Radeon, Kyro II, and GF2 GTS. The fact i had 3 options in the first place made me happy. I picked the Radeon, simply because it delivers while remaining dirt cheap.. i could have easily went for Kyro II, but it remains close priced to GTS.. in the end, its all about BANG for my BUCK and nVidia just doesnt deliver that these days.