New Mad Onion Benchmark: xl-r8r

[paulcs]

Apparently, this one runs a diagnostic and makes upgrade recommendations:

http://www.madonion.com/xl-r8r/?download

Now, people were complaining on the NVIDIA newsgroup that after much ado about nothing, it suggests you buy a GeForce2.

There is nudity, however. Haven't tried it yet.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[Joel]

Other than maybe the T&L stuff it played great on my machine with the G450.

Joel

[Tronic]

Really nice eye-candy, but when it comes to doing something useful, that's just another JOKE from MadOnion.

First of all, why to put hardware analyzer and 3D-demo into a same package, when those two have nothing to do with each other (in this case)..

And, it couldn't contact MadOnion's server to fetch information. Just gave me an error (no submitted data for this configuration).

It detected my PC100, and PC133 DIMMs as 66MHz, while both are running at 100MHz.

For some people it suggested buying new motherboard that would support AGP, while they were already using AGP-GFX-card.

Well, what can you except from MadOnion?

[Joel]

And, it couldn't contact MadOnion's server to fetch information. Just gave me an error (no submitted data for this configuration).

Gave me the same message and I tried three different times.

Joel

[Nuno]

It worked for me (although I had to submit the info from win98, it can´t give me upgrade advices when running win2k. LOL

Here:


Yeah sure. Tomorrow I´m out to buy a GTS. I though I saw the demo running smooth as silk, but if Madonion says so, I must be wrong.

Anyway anyone knows how to run it higher than 640x480x16?

[Jorden]

Your computer currently has a graphics card in an AGP slot. You can change this for improved performance.

As opposed to what then? Back to PCI, hell, back to ISA? Or did MadOnion ommit the to inbetween for and improved?

Jord.

[isochar]

If you look at the madonion boards, you'll see that the administrators didn't make Xl-r8r a graphics intensive benchmark.

I think I remember someone saying that it ran smooth as silk on a G200 =)

This program was intended on helping people who know very little about computers/upgrading.

[tuco]

i tried it & all it could tell me was i had a amd cpu, 256mb ram ( didn't show speed of either ) & a matrox g400, doesn't like win2k.

[DosFreak]

I think they released it to make people happy until they release the new 3DMARK.

xl-r8r.exe -x1024 -y768 -bpp32


F12 for screenshots.

[Jeff]

Does nVidia own madonion? I ran the test and it came back with changeing my video card and I think 4 of the choices were nVidia products. They threw in the VooDoo 5500 at the bottom and showed it to only be a slight improvement.

[Rags]

Ahhhhh....now someone is finally catching on. This program does absolutely nothing but play a silly video, checks out what hardware you have, and then tells you what you need to get to have the highest performing card. It's just a marketing tool, just like all the 3D Marks are. nVidia is definitely getting some advertising from this. Just to be sure, I changed my settings on my vidcard to underclocked, and guess what? The same results. Hmmm...pretty lame.

Rags

[Joel]

Thanks DosFreak, It looks even better in 32bit color.

I agree with Rags on this one. Those programs have all been written to favor the nVidia cards. That is why they are not a good judge of performance between different cards.

Joel

[SteveC]

I ran it on my PC at work (celery 533 with an ati rage pro built on) and it told me to buy a new mainboard with an agp slot. Fair enough really.

I ran it on my g400 PC and it told me that I should buy a GeForce...

The demo looked REALLY poor on the ati at work - the textures were pretty blocky. The dithering was worse! It pretty smooth overall though.

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[SteveC]

Look at the copyright date as it loads! Have MadOnion been to the future?



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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Rags]

Copyright submissions for next year are already being accepted, so I see no reason why they couldn't already have 2001