Hi everyone!
Well, I feel like I know many of you, because I've been lurking here since near the beginning. Finally decided to join SI. I've been long 3dfx since after the Sega induced crash and have averaged both up and down since then! :-)
Anyway, just so my post has some real content, I saw this on usenet: (there was a whole bunch of back and forth after this post, but the end conclusion of everyone was still that Tom "tailors" his benchmarks to get what he wants out of them)
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In Tom's latest piece, he super cools a Celeron 400 using a Kyrotech setup and gets it running at 618MHz. For benchmarking he uses the reference TNT2 board supplied to him by nVidia, oddly, he only ran it at 150/183 rather than the 175/200 that he claimed previously. In the Quake2 benchmark (run at 1024x768x16) he finally uses Massive and Demo1 instead of just Crusher.
Well his own results show the TNT2 is only getting a lowly 69.1 FPS and that is on a 618MHz Celeron! Hell, my V3 gets 83 FPS at 1024x768 in Quake2 on my lowly Celeron266@400MHz! If this isn't proof positive that Tom is nVidia's bitch, then I don't know what is. How can he possibly claim that the TNT2 will even come close to V3 performace levels with scores like this?
Laughable is what it is.
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