No matter how many September 30 confirmation articles, previews and e-mails, it's inevitable that some n00b will start a thread saying, "EB says Nov. 25 2005"
Update 09/06: We also emailed Gabe Newell from Valve Software about his experience with Pixel Shader Performance:
GD: We've started some initial DX9 Shader tests, and have seen, so far that NVIDIA NV3x hardware has a hard time.. Will it'll be similar w/ the HL2 Benchmark?
"Yep."
Gabe...
Ranking was pretty cool during early days of hl2.net... as soon as you hit a 1000 posts any member can change their rank to what ever they want. EVIL and Badger were the ones who lucked-out on that, Badger ended up becoming a mod, so that don't matter.
I was too slow to take advantage of the...
I understand and agree to what you're saying, but I was simply saying, "I'm pretty sure you'll still be able to overclock the 9800XT (9900)."
As far as me, overclocking my 9800 Pro... I haven't done it yet and don't plan too either. I already jacked-up my Ti4200 from overclocking.
I'm pretty sure you'll still be able to overclock the 9800XT (9900). They may say that the 9900 is an overclocked 9800, but the thing is... they have a different way of upping the frequencies than we do. We'll see when the 9800XT (9900) benchmarks are out, the reviewers will either or try to...