I just looked up ticket prices for Ghostbusters, 3D AVX is $24.25 for an adult. And theaters wonder why attendance is dropping.
Same theater, Finding Dory in 2D is $13.25.
I find it ironic that the article states how the best software apps can decline if not kept current then links back to tests done almost two years ago.
Interesting that the Asus card is cheaper than most. My local brick and mortar has it listed at $30 higher than the other brands, the XFX base card is $30 cheaper than most others.
http://www.memoryexpress.com/Promos/Brands/amd/RadeonHD7970Launch.cm.aspx
I'd like to see these game IQ reviews also include Eyefinity tests. Granted there's no competing nVidia solution, but it would be nice to know if a game works or not. While SC;C claimed to have Eyefinity support added in via a patch, it didn't work so well, for me at least...
Cities drop a bit, mid 50's when I bother to check. Rig is a [email protected], 4GB 1066, Vista Ultimate 64. Frame rates are noticeably higher than with the 8800 GTX this card replaced.
Pic location was just where I happened so spawn to take a look at GPU usage.
I'd really like to see game tests include dual and quad core numbers. Hopefully more games will be more multithreaded effective and knowing which games are better would be awesome.
I'm sure the [H] staff get hundereds of emails everyday linking to articles the authors/webmasters deem [H] worthy. Going beyond the first page of everyone that sounds even remotely interesting would probably take a couple hundred hours everyday. Getting an [H] posting could mean a few hundred...
Phenom support on older AM2 boards is pretty disappointing so far.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/28/phenom-upgrade-poses-problems-for-am2-motherboard-users/