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Nivida has A new vidio card that blows away any thing else out there! The 6800 is A beast of A card , if your in the market for a new vidio card check it out. it sells for around $ 499

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Here's GameSpy's take on it:

 

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra

 

I have got to admit though, I'm a bit gun-shy about these cards now with all the kafuffle last year regarding tampered benchmark programs favoring NVIDIA exclusively....

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wasn't it ATI that got caught doing that with quake3 benchmarks?

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LOL. I don't know. Maybe they got caught too? Heh.

 

I remember reading about this Nvidia scam on a GameSpy benchmark review. Lemme see if I can dig it up again and quote it.....

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Here we go....

 

This is a snippet from page 2 of a 2003 benchmarking article on Gamespy.com:

 

...let me clarify a few things about what has been happening between 3DMark and NVIDIA. For those that missed the news, 3DMark issued a new patch (version 330, which is what I used) that disabled certain "cheats" that had been discovered in NVIDIA's drivers. After what I am guessing was some legal wrangling, a joint press release from both Futuremark and NVIDIA was released, explaining that what was really going on were code optimizations specifically targeted at 3DMark by NVIDIA's drivers.

 

The entire article can be found here.

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