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hardocp 2900xt xfire review
- Thread starter Gerard
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If memory serves me right... they did a full gaming benchmark review of the Conroe on a graphics card that bottlenecked, therefore all the results no matter what CPU was used was the same. They could have thrown any high end CPU in there for comparison and it wouldn't have made a difference. So they said that Conroe is great because it's was like half the price of the AMD equivalent at the time and performed on par... which was obvious because the graphics card was maxxed out. The only difference was their apples thing when they used a much lower res and the CPU actually had some work to do.jaykay said:
Tom|Nbk said:
Why do you care anyway? You've got an xfire setup, you sound more than happy with it, and that's all that really matters imo.
It's just another geeky hardware site, and most of em are in somebody's pockets these days anyway
You can only really trust sources like this forum, and even then you have to be careful.Go enjoy the cards and stop worrying about it
flibby said:
well thier reasoning made sense, who buys a c2d setup to game at 640x480 to make more use of the cpu and less of the gpu?
maybe now if they redid that test using current gen cards like the 8800ultra there would be a difference shown. but they were right at the time showing that gpu limitation was the key factor in games and not cpu limitation.
flibby said:
This was the whole point of their review though. They were pointing out that if you're a gamer playing at high resolution you shouldn't be fooled into thinking that a faster CPU is going to improve your fps since it's all on the GPU at high gameplay settings. Their reviews DO always stress the need to get the best visual quality, so I thought they had a good point in doing that review.
And if I recall correctly, they did revisit it later using SLI'd GTXs to show that when the GPU bottleneck is reduced, the Conroe DID have an impact. Again, all pretty obvious stuff, but I still felt that the review was a good way of forcing people to see that jumping on a bandwagon (i.e. C2D) doesn't always give you the best gaming performance.
Well you both can defend the article and HardOCP as much as you want but in reality everyone, and probably including you two, know they messed up and instead of holding their hands up and basically saying "sorry, we messed up" they started editing the article, banning people on their forums, and saying "nuh uh the gfx isn't the bottleneck!" when of course it was.
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[H] have been producing 'strange' reviews for ages, i don't fight for either videocard camp but that review is a stinker ....and not the first.
don't even bother taking it to the forums, you NEVER get a reply from an editor for a serious question. all they ever to do is pander to the numerous [H] fanboys asking moronic questions.
most sites are on the take in one form or another, kids promised free toys for favourable reviews ...do the math.
don't even bother taking it to the forums, you NEVER get a reply from an editor for a serious question. all they ever to do is pander to the numerous [H] fanboys asking moronic questions.
most sites are on the take in one form or another, kids promised free toys for favourable reviews ...do the math.
Tom|Nbk said:
If you notice though the CF setup is running higher settings than the single 8800GTS hence why the single 8800GTS looks to be getting better results.
This is how Hardocp benchmark rather than just give you rather meaningless graphcs they actually sow what the maximum playable settings are.
Of course as normal for a thread on here a lot of people appear to have just replied before even reading the review. (not aimed at you tom)