Little observation on Tom's hardware's review

[Marshmallowman]

bit weird at THG.

He has stated before that they use win2k to avoid anomalies created by win XP. But for this review they use win XP, with no explaination..

And he makes a big song and dance about the new 533 p4's in almost all his previos articles, and then uses and old 400mhz p4.

FFS he is supposed to be testing a premo card, so he should be use very good gear!

The Anand used a reasonable setup,(a bit low on ram tho)

and GamePC had very nice results with his athlon and 1G of mem

one reviewer use a 533fsb 2,53 P4 with 512 of rambus, which even things out...forget which one (i posted it somewhere yesterday)

[zandor]

Bah. Forget the "good" gear. I want benchies on my gear! Dual PIII-1.0 running on a VIA 694x chipset.
Not to mention that my next comp will probably be a 64-bit machine using an not yet released chip. Probably a dual AMD Opteron, unless Itanium software support gets a lot better.
I suppose I could run some once my P shows up, though I'll have to find an 8500 and/or GF4 to borrow for comparison purposes.

edit: I hate VIA.

[frankymail]

So you're not going to get a new computer until Q3 2003 and don't you know that a single Opteron will cost about $1200 US and the motherboard (with DUAL CPU support) will set you back for about the same price??? And you can afford a dual-Itanium (2 (Mcinkley) maybe?) or dual-Opteron PC????????? Tell me where you work, i'm switching job

[piaxVirus]

The Clawhammer should intro at about $300 while the Opteron should be around $500 US. An Itanium would be over a grand.

AMD has never priced there high end CPUs near intel's gravy train prices. Look at the MP vs. the Xeon.

[Surfwienix]

Originally posted by Guru
Tom used : NVIDIA - v29.42
ATI - v6.13.10.6094
Matrox - v1.00.25

Anand used : ATI - CATALYST 2.1
Matrox - v225
NVIDIA - v29.42

So Anand used newer M and A drivers right(?) and they both used the same N drivers!

i would say, Matrox v225 = v1.00.225, so Tom's Matrox-driver is newer: v1.00.25

[SteveC]

No, THG used the same (v1.0.1.225) - see http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/...rhelia-03.html