Jeff, assume you are right and that the board was supposed to be 166 mhz. This means 3dfx was lying instead of sending a bad board.
Pat, that is not what I was suggesting. I had a couple problems with this whole situation. But before I rant, what Turok scores were you comparing against (per your post)?
1) I was questioning the accuracy of sharky's private utility that gave him a clock setting of 166mhz.
2) Even if the board was clocked at 166mhz, I have never heard of someone benchmarking and increasing the clock speed (heard of reporting increased clock speeds in system tests, but never of a tester feeling that the board is at an incorrect setting and arbitrarily increasing / tweaking the settings on a board they are testing)
Matter of fact, remember last year when Mercury tested the banshee, they stated that the shipping drivers of the one of the banshee cards they were testing had their refresh rate set to 60hz, and it was basically not their position to adjust it.
Sharky's card had no lcdfx port, no tv out, and not bundle. It was not a finished product, and due to the lack of the above mentioned parts, I would propose that it was more of an alpha product than anything. Why would they send newest beta generation to reviewers, when they are actively using those for driver generation and testing. Send the "reviewers" obsolete or "rougher" products that have exhausted their life cycle in the course of testing. (better use of capital.... i like it).
Far as i'm concerned, this whole Sharky episode smells more like rotten fish all the time.
Ride the pattern, be happy, buy 3dfx (sue Nvidia :P ).
Jeff P. |
