The Fermi Thread - Part 3

[Coldon]

Whining about no dual monitor option, whining about a so called flicker problem with 5800 series, whining about the fact its unfair to compare a newly launch fermi with the latest ATI driver (oh you think nVida would do a fair bench)...get a grip man.
You complain about all the ATI fanboys and ranting/bashing on in these threads. Your just the same, clearly an nVidia fanboy, trying to find any stupid of reason to bash an ati product or use an excuse not to buy and ati product. You don't like ATI and your an nVidia fanboy thats why you won't buy a 5800 series card, don't use lame excuses like there is a flicker problem.

Its absolutely shocking the way some of you go on, so delusional.
Its a bloody graphics card company, its hardly Manchester United vs Liverpool rivalry is it, i cannot understand why you lot get so worked up.

i'm not whining just pointing out a flaw in his logic, saying that he hopes they used the 10.3 drivers as that will show that fermi isn't that much faster (which may very well be), i was just pointing out that nvidia's driver also have to mature or do you disagree? So basically drivers don't affect performance in your opinion and driver versions don't really matter.

I don't have a preference to either camp and will buy whatever is the best value for money and will give me the least problems. Prices in south africa are insane (around $650 for a 5870) and I was prepared to buy a 5870 at that price till i saw reports of this *imaginary" flicker problem. I obviously must have been delusional that day and imagined those hundreds of posts confirming it and obviously in my state of delusional missed the driver change log that confirmed that it was fixed (i've been checking each new driver change log for that to happen cause then i can pretty much go out and buy a 5870 - but i sure as hell am not paying $650 for a card that flickers and then try explain why i want a refund to the idiot techguys at the suppliers here), but that's not the issue here is it. My initial comment was just a joke (you know something that's meant to be funny).

ironically enough my posts haven't been aggressive or overbearing, i wasnt even whining just pointing out a valid fact, which obviously got your panties in a bunch, so maybe instead of getting all upset give me a valid counterpoint to why the driver version maturing wont improve performance over time.

just to clear things up in case you missed my point like you did in my last point: at launch they SHOULD use the latest driver versions from each camp for the reviews and compare performance on those but it is naive to not think that performance will improve as the driver matures, a followup review in a few months with a more mature driver from both sides might yield different results. So the argument that a driver is going to bridge the gap between the two products is *at this point* incorrect as ATI have had nearly 6 months time to improve their driver.