I really don't see how tom's hardware is biased at all towards ATI if anything I'd say it's the other way around!

 I remember when the X1800XT first came out, Tom's Hardware benchmarked it when everyone knew the drivers were badly busted yet they used the results those drivers generated for MONTHS after many new drivers had come out leading site visitors to think the X1000 series was much slower then it is.

Max settings for Doom 3 is 1600 x 1200...jamesgj

lmfao, alot of games like BF2 also don't natively support super high resolutions, but if you go into the Config file you can manually input them in.

I'm not sure they're biased in either direction, they just tend to make outlandish statements to get more readers so they can make more advertising revenue...DGFreak

 I would hope that would hurt them more then help :?

For every site that is dissapointed in the X2900XT their are more I think that have a positivie outlook on it.

 Such as Tom's Hardware, GURU3D and ExtremeTech.

The problem isn't as much with their points as it is with how they said it, honestly goto system wars and look at a Sony or 360 fan bashing one of the other consoles, they do it in the same way these loosers did.

I don't know if any of you saw it, but HardOCP  seems to have let the cat out of the bag.

 Talk about unprofessional, they call the 2900 a FLOP right on there front page and in the summary say it's ATI's Geforce 5, has bad image quality, gets owned by the GTS320 and they said it's a hopeless waste of money.

 Quite a contrast to most other sites that say it has fantastic image quality, cremes the GTS, praise the Multimedia features and bundled HL2 package and mention the Drivers have a long way to go and will likely result in much better results in the coming weeks.

My problem isn't so much with what they said and more with how they said it and how they said it destroys their credibility in my eyes forever.

You can't trust any site that resorts to the childish bashing HardOCP does because most people know acting like the people in System Wars destroys all your credibility instantly, if the people at HardOCP were smart they would know this.

So either the people at HardOCP are complete idiots in which case you can't trust them or they know they have little credability anyways in which you also can't trust them.

I wonder if they'll have the guts to fess up and to a degree admit their premature remarks once the new drivers ship that promise significant gains.

Anyone know if the R600s hold up well on P5W DH Deluxe (Crossfire Ready) as far as Crossfire goes?

And is it true that it adopted the Bridge connector, like Nvidia's SLi? 

P5W that stand for 500 watts? I think they said they recommend 700 watts for X2900 CF :O

 

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Quite simply to play that game with that many AI's you need a quad core or you have to kill your settings hard.

Recently a site published an articile showing supcom getting huge boosts from quad cores when playing alot of AI's

The same article also showed that SUPREME COMMANDER runs significantly slower in VISTA then it does in XP so I suggest you make your system a dual boot and play Supreme Commander with XP, that alone will give you a big boost.

Why Ai's though man :p just go play online, it's much more fun, though if you play a game that big I reccommend you make sure everyone in the game has a dual core or better before you start it.