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From: William on 24 Jul 2007 21:39 I have been planning to upgrade to VISTA and a DX10 board just before Christmas this year. When I purchased the system I now have, back in November 06, I got a coupon for Vista with the XP SR2b, and a x1950pro. I'm not happy with the reviews on VISTA or ATI's DX10 boards for games. The specks on the HD2900 series is junk. Entry level at best. May have to wait for a while longer than I thought. From what I have been reading, Vista SR1 isn't going to be all that great when it comes to video performance either. It looks like XP sr2b is going to be the top-dog for a while longer in the gaming world. (I want HALO2 on my XP!) Maybe their is to much DRM in the system gumming up the inners. Maybe I'll pull out the E6600 - Core 2 Dual and drop in a Core 2 Quad in its place for Christmas. Maybe go to 4 gig (3.2g usable ) to go with XP. William "First of One" <root(a)127.0.0.1> wrote in message news:Oamdndv9qvCzCTvbnZ2dnUVZ_vqpnZ2d(a)giganews.com... > The HD2900XT has a lot of features "broken" in the silicon, one of them > being the hardware FSAA resolver. UVD may be the other item. Marketing > pressures. > > -- > "War is the continuation of politics by other means. > It can therefore be said that politics is war without > bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." > > "Ken Maltby" <kmaltby(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message > news:DaidnQ6R44ME2jvbnZ2dnUVZ_oGjnZ2d(a)giganews.com... >> ( I find it odd that the HD 2900XT still has the older version of >> Avivo. ) > >
From: William on 25 Jul 2007 19:54 I've been thinking about this for a while. I'll take back the comment that these series of boards are junk. They are not. They would do well in any business computer that a company wants to add DX10 compatibility too, or a computer that has on-board video that a person would like to upgrade to DX10 with investing little money. Their are needs for this type of entry-level boards for the market. So I stand corrected. By myself. Sorry for that comment. William "William" <nospam(a)pacifier.com> wrote in message news:13adae8nej76l6f(a)corp.supernews.com... >I have been planning to upgrade to VISTA and a DX10 board just before >Christmas this year. When I purchased the system I now have, back in >November 06, I got a coupon for Vista with the XP SR2b, and a x1950pro. >I'm not happy with the reviews on VISTA or ATI's DX10 boards for games. >The specks on the HD2900 series is junk. Entry level at best. May have to >wait for a while longer than I thought. > > From what I have been reading, Vista SR1 isn't going to be all that great > when it comes to video performance either. It looks like XP sr2b is going > to be the top-dog for a while longer in the gaming world. (I want HALO2 on > my XP!) > > Maybe their is to much DRM in the system gumming up the inners. Maybe > I'll pull out the E6600 - Core 2 Dual and drop in a Core 2 Quad in its > place for Christmas. Maybe go to 4 gig (3.2g usable ) to go with XP. > > William > > > > "First of One" <root(a)127.0.0.1> wrote in message > news:Oamdndv9qvCzCTvbnZ2dnUVZ_vqpnZ2d(a)giganews.com... >> The HD2900XT has a lot of features "broken" in the silicon, one of them >> being the hardware FSAA resolver. UVD may be the other item. Marketing >> pressures. >> >> -- >> "War is the continuation of politics by other means. >> It can therefore be said that politics is war without >> bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." >> >> "Ken Maltby" <kmaltby(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message >> news:DaidnQ6R44ME2jvbnZ2dnUVZ_oGjnZ2d(a)giganews.com... >>> ( I find it odd that the HD 2900XT still has the older version of >>> Avivo. ) >> >> > >
From: First of One on 25 Jul 2007 20:23
The question that ensues is: why would any business computer need DX10 compatibility? Of course, with Acrobat 8 requiring Shader Model 3.0 to activate GPU acceleration, maybe it's not so far-fetched... -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "William" <nospam(a)pacifier.com> wrote in message news:13afolqfb66qs4a(a)corp.supernews.com... > I've been thinking about this for a while. I'll take back the comment > that these series of boards are junk. They are not. They would do well > in any business computer that a company wants to add DX10 compatibility > too, or a computer that has on-board video that a person would like to > upgrade to DX10 with investing little money. Their are needs for this > type of entry-level boards for the market. So I stand corrected. By > myself. > > Sorry for that comment. > > William > > > > "William" <nospam(a)pacifier.com> wrote in message > news:13adae8nej76l6f(a)corp.supernews.com... >>I have been planning to upgrade to VISTA and a DX10 board just before >>Christmas this year. When I purchased the system I now have, back in >>November 06, I got a coupon for Vista with the XP SR2b, and a x1950pro. >>I'm not happy with the reviews on VISTA or ATI's DX10 boards for games. >>The specks on the HD2900 series is junk. Entry level at best. May have >>to wait for a while longer than I thought. >> >> From what I have been reading, Vista SR1 isn't going to be all that great >> when it comes to video performance either. It looks like XP sr2b is >> going to be the top-dog for a while longer in the gaming world. (I want >> HALO2 on my XP!) >> >> Maybe their is to much DRM in the system gumming up the inners. Maybe >> I'll pull out the E6600 - Core 2 Dual and drop in a Core 2 Quad in its >> place for Christmas. Maybe go to 4 gig (3.2g usable ) to go with XP. >> >> William >> >> >> >> "First of One" <root(a)127.0.0.1> wrote in message >> news:Oamdndv9qvCzCTvbnZ2dnUVZ_vqpnZ2d(a)giganews.com... >>> The HD2900XT has a lot of features "broken" in the silicon, one of them >>> being the hardware FSAA resolver. UVD may be the other item. Marketing >>> pressures. >>> >>> -- >>> "War is the continuation of politics by other means. >>> It can therefore be said that politics is war without >>> bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." >>> >>> "Ken Maltby" <kmaltby(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message >>> news:DaidnQ6R44ME2jvbnZ2dnUVZ_oGjnZ2d(a)giganews.com... >>>> ( I find it odd that the HD 2900XT still has the older version of >>>> Avivo. ) >>> >>> >> >> > > |