Anyone read this article?
I thought this was a joke. The 845D as product of the year. Anyways I let him know about it. With products like the Geforce 3 and even the ATI Radeon 8500, a mediocre chipset like the 845D, that was long coming shouldn't even be in the top 5 IMO.
http://hardware.earthweb.com/prodop/article/0,,12099_942871_,00.html
I thought this was a joke. The 845D as product of the year. Anyways I let him know about it. With products like the Geforce 3 and even the ATI Radeon 8500, a mediocre chipset like the 845D, that was long coming shouldn't even be in the top 5 IMO.
I thought this was a joke. The 845D as product of the year. Anyways I let him know about it. With products like the Geforce 3 and even the ATI Radeon 8500, a mediocre chipset like the 845D, that was long coming shouldn't even be in the top 5 IMO.
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I am not sure I follow, since you are stating that the video cards are "worthy" because they are trying to better themselves. Well, ATI has to, because they have routinely screwed up every hardware release for the last few years with bad drivers. So, they NEED this to work, and they are doing everything possible (like the Quake.exe vs. Quack.exe from HardOCP, where they found that the ATI drivers were looking for the Quake.exe to run) to look good in the public eye. As for NVidia, they merely released a card that uses DX8 features and a few more enhancements. They have set a release schedule of about every 6 months with a new version in the fall and a spring "refresher" (usually clocked higher) in the following year.
The i845d "betters" the view of recent motherboard releases from Intel that can use cheaper memory. Not only that, but it uses several other new features that are out (as previously mentioned) that the other vendors haven't done much with yet. The main reason why this board has been stalled so long is because of that stupid agreement with RAMBUS that essentially killed the performance of low to mid level workstations. So yes, I would say that Intel brought as much that's "new" to the table as either of the video card companies did since they are enabling the use of new technology (much like the video cards enable DX8).
When you are in the "tech" (or any field, really) business, people expect you to do better, and that's fine. But I say you reserve awards for things that are new or a major improvement over previous revisions or anything else that's available.
The i845d "betters" the view of recent motherboard releases from Intel that can use cheaper memory. Not only that, but it uses several other new features that are out (as previously mentioned) that the other vendors haven't done much with yet. The main reason why this board has been stalled so long is because of that stupid agreement with RAMBUS that essentially killed the performance of low to mid level workstations. So yes, I would say that Intel brought as much that's "new" to the table as either of the video card companies did since they are enabling the use of new technology (much like the video cards enable DX8).
When you are in the "tech" (or any field, really) business, people expect you to do better, and that's fine. But I say you reserve awards for things that are new or a major improvement over previous revisions or anything else that's available.
One thing that did actually annoy me with the straight 845 was the way it was being sold in places like PC World and Dell. I can only speak for the UK but i would expect the US to be the same kinda thing. They would say stuff like "amazing performance" and have a p4 2ghz with 512mb ram....sdram that is
So the poor suckers not really getting what they think they are getting, now with this D version it makes it alot better The average person on the street can go get a p4 with good performance for alot less money than if they had gone with rdram.
Surely thats worth a lot more to someone than an extra 50fps or an extra pixel shader that they wont even know is there
So the poor suckers not really getting what they think they are getting, now with this D version it makes it alot better The average person on the street can go get a p4 with good performance for alot less money than if they had gone with rdram.
Surely thats worth a lot more to someone than an extra 50fps or an extra pixel shader that they wont even know is there
I applaud INtel for finally going DDR and making the P4 available to a wider market but I have had an athlon DDR board for 7 months now, so if your giving the award based on bringing performance based DDR to the masses, this was done way before the 845D for the AMD platform. ANd I'm guessing thats what pushed intel into releasing thiers earlier. SO maybe the AMD DDR should get the award instead, being the catylist and all.
Yup. Intel really got bit by trying to force RDRAM on us. I'm sure it's a lovely technology, but most people care how much they get for the price. If RDRAM was faster in most tasks, and noticeably faster, then we'd probably not see so many people po'd about it. As it stands right now, it's a technology that is only useful to those who need it to pump data as fast as possible to the CPU.
yeah that's all I want. VIA has made great strides but they need to continue to improve things. I do think Intel's days of being the stabilitly leader are coming to an end. SIS, VIA, NVIDIA, all are making strides in chipsets. I hope that with the new APG 8X and other standards make things better
