Video cards, reviews and feelgood factors

[mdhome]

This in reply to the following thread http://bbs.pcstats.com/beyond3d/mess...3&threadid=799 over at Beyond concerning the fact that reviews of graphics cards are becoming quite boring. Does anyone have any ideas of how a vid card could be bench marked to give the user a more *holistic* feel for its qualities. Most of us here appreciate superb picture quality but it is seldom mentioned in reviews. Does anyone know if there is there a way of measuring picture quality? How about a (purely subjective) feelgood factor.

regards MD

[windigo]

the problem is that some of these sites shy away from being subjective since some people equate it with being biased.
Unfortunately reviews have become rather bland because you dont "know" the reviewer and what he likes dislikes and how they relate to your own likes/dislikes.
And looking for fps is about the only thing they say definitively but its not them saying it, it is the benchmarking suite that tells them what it is. Maybe learning from A/V audiphile reviewers can teach them how to give concise information and convey the overall "feeling"
of a given component and let readers know what the reviewer is like rather than what the hardware is like.

[Dilitante1]

Hmmmmmmm

Holistic or HOLOGRAPHIC?





-Dil