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Titolo: INQ challenges ATI, Nvidia

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27922
INQ challenges ATI, Nvidia
The 1170 hour Countdown of FUD
By Theo Valich: venerdì 25 novembre 2005, 01.01
AS OUR dear Nebojsa asked in his opinion article here, the question really is 
how ATI will respond to Nvidia's 7800GTX 512MB threat.
The company responded with two things: an internal presentation and a BIOS 
which overclocks the X1800XT from 625 to 700 MHz for GPU chip and video memory 
from 1.5 to 1.6 GHz, as reported here.
So, instead of offering solutions to AGP market, which DOMINATES the overall 
share of PC computers out there, ATi overclocked the X1800XT and made a 
presentation running around the erroneous calculation which claims GeForce 
7800GTX 512MB will "die" after 1170 hours. Also, the claim has been done that 
an average gamer can play 30+ hours on ATi's X1800XT 512MB hardware and only 
mediocre 7.5 hours weekly before nV's hardware will fail.
As you can see, ATi's is claiming you'll be able to play for 56 hours a week 
three years after you have bought the product and 42 hours four years after 
you have bought the X1800XT. At the same time, nVIDIA's 7800GTX-512MB stands 
at 7.5 hours weekly in three years time, and mediocre 5.7 hours of gaming per 
week four years after you have shelled out 600+ euros for the board.
However, this powerpointery is something we at The INQ cannot tolerate. With 
so many FUD being floated to distributors and AIB's to keep the company's 
image safe and bombing our inboxes, ICQ/MSN/Skype lines, we have decided to 
slap our white glove on faces of both Captain Canuck and Green Goblin. We dare 
both companies to a duel of fates.
Seven of INQ challenge rules are as follows:
1. Hardware invited: ATi X1800XT in single or CrossFire, nVIDIA 7800GTX 512MB 
single or SLI
2. Each company needs to deliver either a graphics card or a complete system, 
at their preference
3. The system will be configured by ourselves(details will be published in a 
separate article)
4. The systems will be run for 1170 hours, 11 minutes and 7 seconds straight, 
under 100% GPU load in today's shader intensive apps.
5. Resolution of 1280x1024 with maximum AntiAliasing and Anisotropic filtering 
shall be used.
6. During the duel, our estimate is that 22.083.010.560.000 pixels (22 
trillion, 83 billion 10 million 560 thousand pixels) will be rendered on 
screen.
7. The boards will be monitored thermally in 8 hour intervals with an external 
laser-guided IC thermometer; a separate software utility will check the 
internal sensors 24x7 to see temperature variables.
Winner gets a special INQ "I Survived the 1170 Hour 11 Min 7 Sec Marathon" 
T-shirt and bragging rights.
ATI, Nvidia, do you dare to take the challenge? µ
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ma sono dei grandi!!!!!! :D
questa si che sarebbe...competizione!!
e cmq ne potrebbero uscire dati molto importanti! sulle temperature e sui 
MTBFs...
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MTBFs...
Secondo me non li prenderanno nemmeno in considerazione. Anche perchè
ci sono molte variabili in gioco che possono determinare la vita di un
componente. Basta che l'alimentatore abbia problemi, o un condensatore
della scheda madre faccia cilecca, la stessa scheda video sia
sfortunata da modificare in modo irrimediabile il test e far trarre
conclusioni errate. Occorrerebbero + sistemi di test ma la cosa si
complicherebbe non poco... 
Non so se ricordate il test live di un A64 e un P4 fatto da Tom's, il
sistema Intel ha avuto un sacco di problemi indipendenti dal
processore in se.
Ciao.
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processore in se.
IMO l'hanno fatto più per polemica che per altro, le slide di Ati sui
difetti dei prodotti nVidia (o viceversa) sono arrivate sul fondo,
hanno cominciato a scavare ed hanno passato da tempo la profondità
dove si trovava il Balrog, adesso puntano ai Grandi Antichi.
Questo tipo di denigrazione non rende le due aziende più mature di due
bambini/fanboy che al posto di accettare che si hanno punti deboli e
punti di forza le provano tutte per essere in testa.
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