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Well, now this will be my second post here at Tom's, and well, its going to take and shoot down AMD! Below I am going to paste in the post I made in the GRAPHICS comment page...now I am going to follow up, please read it carfuly and my coments at the end..
Hello, I am a regular visit to Tom's hardware, but this is going to be my first post...
Well, as for the world of graphics cards I would have to say good job NVIDIA, but ATI STILL KICKS YOUR ASSS! Sure reviews say that the GForce2 and 3 series are suppose to be better than the ATI series, but I hate to break it to a lot of you NVIDIA users, ATI IS BETER, dont mean to be crule or anything...
I have the ATI All In Wonder Radion 32DDR AGP 4x system, for those of you who dont know, SVID IN/OUT, COMPONENT IN/OUT, SPDIF OUT, COAX IN, DIGITAL FLAT,CRT, or Touch screen out...
Out of personal tests, I have found that my ATI card still beats the competetion. At the place I work, we have a number of computer systems, so myself and a few others always take it upon ourselves to test new machines and grade them accordingly. Well, not to long ago we received nice new ATHALON (YUCKIES) systems at 1.1 and 1.2 ghz with 128 of either SD PC133 or DDR at 200, 40gb western digital or Maxtor HDD's and the NVIDIA GForce 2, GForce 3 and GForce 2+ all with either 16 or 32 mb of DDR. For benchmarking we us 3DMark 2000/2001. Nothing tests a systems performance beter than 3D rendering! Of the new systems their top score was only 1500. Prity pathetic for 1.1 and 1.2 Athalon systems. I personaly grade the machines according to my home machine whitch youll probably laugh, but I bet it still does better than most of peoples machines at 800mhz +. My system scores a score of 2550 with 3DMark 2000, and 1957 with 3DMark 2001...heres what i have...
Intel Celeron yes, the "C" word, at--400mhz,(I can get it up to 500mhz just by changing my bus, and core multiplyer, unfort there is no BiOS update for my motherboard, it only supports up to 500mhz, with some simple math i could probably get the chip up to 600+ mhz)
a Matsonic 7090S motherboard....i know, but its pritty good if you ask me!
192 pc 133 sd ram
30gb maxtor 5200rpm
10gb maxtor 7200rpm
creative 12x dvd
lg 4x4x32 cdrw
ATI All In Wonder Radeon 32DDR
and a simple DLink 10/100 NIC
So as it stands In my opinion, if a 1.1 or a 1.2 ghz ATHALON-meaning has all bells and whistles, with a quote on quote "Better" CARD cannot beat my "CELERON" at 400mhz, I would have to say that NVIDIA should try harder to gain my respect, but dont get me wrong they do have a great card, but the ATI does pritty damn good!
As you can see a graphics card does play an important role in the home pc and all other pcs, but as it stands, tests like 3DMark 2000 and 2001 also do relly on procesor speeds and abilities, so all I have to say is, look at the facts, and INTEL CELERON 400 beat an AMD ATHALON at 1.1 and 1.2 ghz. Also, in personal tests on the same machines, I found that the boot time between my personal machine and the 1.1 and 1.2 was actulaly better, my machine booted twice as fast and ran almost all aplications just as fast, the only part of my personal testing that the 1.1 and 1.2 procesors beat my machine was when burning a cd or processing large databases or graphic/data files over 100mb....in my opinion, INTEL ALL THE WAY!
Hello, I am a regular visit to Tom's hardware, but this is going to be my first post...
Well, as for the world of graphics cards I would have to say good job NVIDIA, but ATI STILL KICKS YOUR ASSS! Sure reviews say that the GForce2 and 3 series are suppose to be better than the ATI series, but I hate to break it to a lot of you NVIDIA users, ATI IS BETER, dont mean to be crule or anything...
I have the ATI All In Wonder Radion 32DDR AGP 4x system, for those of you who dont know, SVID IN/OUT, COMPONENT IN/OUT, SPDIF OUT, COAX IN, DIGITAL FLAT,CRT, or Touch screen out...
Out of personal tests, I have found that my ATI card still beats the competetion. At the place I work, we have a number of computer systems, so myself and a few others always take it upon ourselves to test new machines and grade them accordingly. Well, not to long ago we received nice new ATHALON (YUCKIES) systems at 1.1 and 1.2 ghz with 128 of either SD PC133 or DDR at 200, 40gb western digital or Maxtor HDD's and the NVIDIA GForce 2, GForce 3 and GForce 2+ all with either 16 or 32 mb of DDR. For benchmarking we us 3DMark 2000/2001. Nothing tests a systems performance beter than 3D rendering! Of the new systems their top score was only 1500. Prity pathetic for 1.1 and 1.2 Athalon systems. I personaly grade the machines according to my home machine whitch youll probably laugh, but I bet it still does better than most of peoples machines at 800mhz +. My system scores a score of 2550 with 3DMark 2000, and 1957 with 3DMark 2001...heres what i have...
Intel Celeron yes, the "C" word, at--400mhz,(I can get it up to 500mhz just by changing my bus, and core multiplyer, unfort there is no BiOS update for my motherboard, it only supports up to 500mhz, with some simple math i could probably get the chip up to 600+ mhz)
a Matsonic 7090S motherboard....i know, but its pritty good if you ask me!
192 pc 133 sd ram
30gb maxtor 5200rpm
10gb maxtor 7200rpm
creative 12x dvd
lg 4x4x32 cdrw
ATI All In Wonder Radeon 32DDR
and a simple DLink 10/100 NIC
So as it stands In my opinion, if a 1.1 or a 1.2 ghz ATHALON-meaning has all bells and whistles, with a quote on quote "Better" CARD cannot beat my "CELERON" at 400mhz, I would have to say that NVIDIA should try harder to gain my respect, but dont get me wrong they do have a great card, but the ATI does pritty damn good!
As you can see a graphics card does play an important role in the home pc and all other pcs, but as it stands, tests like 3DMark 2000 and 2001 also do relly on procesor speeds and abilities, so all I have to say is, look at the facts, and INTEL CELERON 400 beat an AMD ATHALON at 1.1 and 1.2 ghz. Also, in personal tests on the same machines, I found that the boot time between my personal machine and the 1.1 and 1.2 was actulaly better, my machine booted twice as fast and ran almost all aplications just as fast, the only part of my personal testing that the 1.1 and 1.2 procesors beat my machine was when burning a cd or processing large databases or graphic/data files over 100mb....in my opinion, INTEL ALL THE WAY!