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http://www.beyond3d.com/f...wtopic.php?t=9391&start=0
De baas van de schrijver van de volgende review heeft een e-mail gehad van Brain Burke met opmerkingen over de review
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http://www.beyond3d.com/f...wtopic.php?t=9391&start=0
De baas van de schrijver van de volgende review heeft een e-mail gehad van Brain Burke met opmerkingen over de review
Nog een opmerking van de schrijver (Ben6)I do not see his benchmark scores on here. I think you left out all all the charts.
To pick up on our previous conversation. You know I had concerns about a writer for an ATI fan site being unbiased in reviews. Tell me if you think I am being a cry baby. I am having a hard time with the scores of these cards.
ASUS RADEON 9600XT running 500/300 core/memory running ATI 3.9 Catalyst drivers (latest on ASUS's site is 3.7 which is too old for my uses.
Should he use the driver Asus recommends and offers its customers. That driver is 3.7. If your mom bought an Asus card, she would go get the driver from Asus' site. sound like poor support to me....but they get a 10 for that. Having to go get a different driver on the ATI site sounds like a ding on Ease of use, but they get a 10 for that, too
He played 3 games on the 9600XT. HomeWorld was choppy, he called it a "hiccup". Call of Duty did not play with out a hot fix. KOTOR was fine. 1 out of 3 worked out of the box. They get a 10 for compatibility? Not working in Call of Duty does not cost them anything? ASus has Cat 3.7 posted? Nothing deducted?
"Otherwise playing the game on a 9600XT was great" ok, so other than the annoying crashes to the desktop in the middle of the game, it was great. sounds fun.
What is a hot fix? Is that hot fix in 3.9 driver? Does that cost you compatibility, support or ease of use points? All 3 are a perfect 10 for ATI.......
Performance: Our card was clearly faster in Homeworld according to his write up, even though he made lots of excuses for the Radeon card and forgive it for forcing him to drop in resolution. I know the 5700 is faster than the 9600XT. In our launch reviews, 5700 ultra won 77% of the benchmarks run by 11 different websites. That is a clear winner. Yet we both get a 7?
BFG offers lifetime support and toll free calls. He raves about it 2 times. bitches about Asus' drivers. How do they handle support calls??? BFG gets the same score at the Radeon card for support?
So you have to go find a "hot fix" to play your game that still crashes to the desktop....they get a 10 for set-up and compatibility?
"So what do I dislike about the ASUS 9600XT? The driver updates aren't as frequent as I would like on ASUS's side. The drivers on ASUS's website indicate that they're based upon Catalyst 3.7s (7.93) which was over 3 months ago. Thankfully, ATI's driver team is up to the challenge. The latest ATI drivers are based upon 3.9 drivers (7.95 based) (actually there's a 3.10 beta to fix issues with Call Of Duty with the 3.9s that I mentioned in the review). The other thing is availability. At the moment it's hard to find a ASUS 9600XT."
Does that get them points deducted for compatibly or Support. Apparently neither because they are both 10s. Does not sound like a 10 ease of use score to me.
Based on the write-up the scores below are more realistic.
BFG 5700 Ultra Scores
Performance 8
Features 9
Compatibility 10
Price 8
Availability 9
Setup 10
Overall Value 7
Ease Of Use 10
Support 10
Software 5
Total: 86
Asus 9600XT Scores
Performance 7
Features 9
Compatibility 8
Price 8
Availability 9
Setup 9
Overall Value 9
Ease Of Use 7
Support 7
Software 10
Total: 83
Brian Burke
NVIDIA Corp.
12331 Riata Trace Parkway, Suite 300
Austin, TX 78727
Wat vinden jullie nu van zo'n aktie van nVidia?Not only did he work up the new scores, but he's threatened my editor with "removing all support Nvidia has given them". His exact words "You think you haven't received support before, you ain't seen nothing yet" . I take what I said about BFG back, btw. Nvidia insists they have no "Black List" .
Sad but funny story, Nancy of PNY called my editor and told him that Brian Burke told her not to send a product for review. So apparently, Nvidia is exerting some control over what products their partners send out too.
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