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VistionTek ATI board on CompUSA

ATI's own 9800 Pro Mac Edition spec page

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Ho hum
By Sharky974 on 2/17/2006 5:41:53 AM , Rating: -1
Another ATI hate bash on the web.

I will give these stories as soon as I see some about Nvidia lying. But since I dont see any of those..I can only assume these stories are BS until further notice.

Just like every site trashed ATI for short R520 supply, and exactly zero have trashed Nvidia for FAR FAR worse 7800 512 supply.

Stop the ATI trashing headlines "Dailytech".

RE: Ho hum
By Spoonbender on 2/17/2006 6:44:34 AM , Rating: 2
You refuse to believe it until NVidia gets caught at the same thing?

Riiiiiight... by that logic, Bush cannot be blamed for anything unless it is proven that Clinton did the same?

That's ridiculous. The evidence is there to see. They tell you exactly how to check it. They give you a link to ATI's current specs, and tell you to check Google's cache. Is it a conspiracy to make ATI sound bad? If so, Google is obviously in on it.

That's the dumbest thing I've heard all day. "I don't want to believe that the object of my fanboyism can be caught doing something wrong. Hence it must be untrue, *despite* the evidence being publicly available".

Good morning, wake up. This is the real world calling.

As for the "Why don't people criticize Nvidia" whining, again, wakey wakey! They do.
Several sites have criticised the 7800 512 availability (Although it wasn't as bad as the R520. The 7800 was available at launch, it just got sold out very quickly, and they couldn't keep up for a while. That's not comparable to the absolute lack of anything R520. But NVidia did take a lot of flak for it. And just a week or two ago, NVidia was attacked for posting positive posts about them on forums or something. And for posting slides about how evil ATI were.)

If we can get over the whining and bitching and "I refuse to believe that my company can screw up" stupidity, *both* companies have always acted like 3-year olds. When they're not engaged in mudflinging against each others, they're always promising more than they can deliver, and claiming support for things they can't do.

So stop the ATI whining.

RE: Ho hum
By z3R0C00L on 2/17/2006 10:15:21 AM , Rating: 3
nVidia WAS CAUGHT with the same thing.. remember Purevideo on NV40 hardware (6800GT and 6800 Ultra). To this day those cards to no support Hardware Purevideo. In fact they don't even support WMV HDTV acceleration like they claimed.

What do you have to say about that?

RE: Ho hum
By RobFDB on 2/17/2006 7:22:30 AM , Rating: 3
Are you completely brain dead? Seriously just look at the pictures. The article isn't some kind of flame designed to damage ATI, it's designed to show that ATI have mislead consumers about the specifications of their graphics cards.

Closing your eyes, putting your hands over your ears and shouting "LA LA LA LA I CANT HEAR YOU." doesn't change the fact ATI said some of their cards are HDCP ready and they clearly aren't. The evidence is there.

Dailytech aren't some trashy tabloid news service. And why are you so keen on stopping people commenting on this article? Blind fanboyism really winds me up.. And before you take a shot at me, I have 2 systems, one has a 9800 Pro in it, and the other a x850 XT PE.

RE: Ho hum
By smitty3268 on 2/17/2006 7:43:27 AM , Rating: 3

Anandtech, a related site, has trashed Nvidia for poor supply of the 7800GTX 512s. As much as they did about poor R520 supply anyway.


Umm, don't you remember that big story a while back about how Nvidia was cheating in its drivers and artificially boosting benchmark scores by lowering quality? Or does that not count as cheating?

RE: Ho hum
By smitty3268 on 2/17/2006 7:47:36 AM , Rating: 2
*******! I meant to say "lying", not "cheating" at the end of my previous post.

And I'm actually an ATI fan, here, with both of my systems currently running Radeon cards. But the kind of blind fanboyism you're showing really irritates me.

RE: Ho hum
By DigitalFreak on 2/17/06, Rating: 0
