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Our OCC Roundup: Graphics Cards of 2007 is Posted
Blackened replied to Nemo's topic in OCC News & Announcements
Im not surprised by the results. I am however very surprised that there can be a "card of the year" review and have it leave out the definite Card of the Year: 8800GT. In fact both the 8800 series cards tested in this review were out in 2006. Way to go ATI, your performance can barely hang with Nvidia's 2006 hardware and were days away from 2008. And shame on person who put together this article, I havent heard this much spin since Hillary gave her speech defending Bill against Monica Lewinsky. -
OCC Review: Sapphire x1950 PRO Ultimate Edition
Blackened replied to neddamttocs's topic in OCC News & Announcements
I was reading this article thinking that it seemed very well done, but when I got the conclusion page I was some what suprised to see that the author would recommend this card over the 7950GT. The reason he gives is that the ATI card "" According to my count the ATI card only beat the 7950 in 1 resolution in one game, Need for Speed: most Wanted at 1024x768. It looses at both the higher resolutions. The other benchmarks that the ATI beats the 7950 in are the 2 resolutions of 3D Mark 06. So based on the ATI card beating the 7950 in 1 resolution in real world testing he is recommending the ATI card. While I dont think that I could have done a better job with the article itself, I think that he seems to have come to his conclusion prior to his testing and worded his conclusion to match his notion of what *should* have happened instead of what really happened. Now maybe the decible level or power usage could come into play when you recommend something, but he didnt mention any of that. I started this reply about 1hr ago and got busy as hell here at work ad I completely lost my train of though.. I just couldnt figure out why the recommendation went like that.. Or is it just me?