yeah if your on 285 tri sli or 295 quad sli right now upgrading to two or three 5870s would actually be a step back...
i hope they can get the half broken xfire scaling going soon, and even single 5870s should be even faster once the drivers are working at full speed.
but you make it sound as if nvidia is doing things in a different way... well they launched the G80, a dx10.0 card, and didnt support dx10 AT ALL for how many months?
and after that their drivers caused so many crashes microsoft publicly gave them a slap in the face for it and told them to get their act together...
its a shame that there is no TUV for software and drivers... there really should be... and for BIOS as well.
im really annoyed by all companies launching software and hardware that doesnt actually work... beta was cool a while ago cause you get unreleased software and can check out what things will be like in a few months or even a year from now... but then beta became the norm... now almost everything is beta at release if not alfa and a lot of it never gets fixed 100%... a real shame
imo WHQL is not enough, we need a way more detailled spec that hardware and software has to pass, and if it doesnt, too bad... the manufacturer cant just sell it anyways and claim to fix it later. maybe there should be a psu like certification... if your software mostly works, it gets a silver rating, if it passes all tests it gets a gold rating etc...
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