Ati x1800

[DayGlow]

seems the R520 is seeing the light of day and ATI has taken a different path than Nvidia. Instead of raw horsepower increase (24 pipes vs 26) ATI has tried to streamline the data stream and make it more efficient

 

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_radeon_x1800_xt_xl/

 

sucks they dropped the LOMAC test, but it seems that Nvidia and ATI are on the same level once again, with Nvida doing betterin OpenGL tests and ATI doing better in D3D, as usual.

 

Good to see that ATI has made a fast product by making things more efficient. Competition is good and different trains of thought are good.

[bflagg]

I read just recently they were releasing a AIW at or about the same time based

on this XL version. (no longer the 6-12 month wait after intial release)

 

Now THATS what I'm talking about.

 

(now hopefully this isn't another ATI marketing scheme....)

[DayGlow]

I had a AIW 9800pro and it gave me a taste for the media PC scene. Since then I've ditched ATI though. I am running a Windows MCE box w/ dual tuners now. ATI never supported MCE in it's drivers so the tuner on my AIW is useless. The fact that ATI has never bothered to include a decent schedualing program with their cards and don't support other programs that do, it didn't make sense to use them anymore.

[bflagg]

which tuners do you use?

I could've sworn since Cat5.6 that MCE is supported...

and the schudule thing.. you got it that one right.... it's a bit cumbersome

[DayGlow]

I have a Hauspauge MCE500 dual tuner in my MCE box now. When I fist saw the AIW they were great and got me into the whole multi-media type box, but now I like the fexiblity of the seperate tuner cards. That plus the fact that I run a full time MCE box for my home theater needs and have a seperate gamebox. Things such as storage are more important that graphical speed. Right now I'm looking to the future and HDTV timeshifting and waiting for some solution on that front.

[bflagg]

MS has a big update for MCE 2005...d/l from there site..