It's sort of sad that my first interaction with Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory on the PC was as a benchmark. But after answering a bunch of emails and responding to comments, I finally got a chance to sit down and play the game.
Yep, that's right - I took this evening off, no benchmarks, no writing, nothing. Vinney and I played a bit of Splinter Cell with a friend in D.C., only to realize that we are both very bad spies (Vinney is a bit better than me, she's much more patient than I am at this kind of stuff).
NVIDIA sent me a replacement nForce4 SLI Intel Edition board, but I'm waiting for ASUS' board to arrive tomorrow before beginning my testing. I'd rather test on a production board anyways and the ASUS board should have dual core support so it'll be a good test platform. I'll keep you all updated on that as things progress.
It's looking like the nForce4 bit will be my next article; I haven't decided if I'm going to hand Derek the x64 article or not, I'm waiting to hear back from him on his schedule. To those wanting a 2P Opteron vs. Pentium D comparison, that one's not going to happen but I have one I think you'll appreciate even more in a couple of weeks.
The Theater 550 article is almost complete, it got cast aside to make room for the dual core stuff but hopefully I'll be able to finish it up soon. That's all for now, I'm going to enjoy the rest of the night off :)
Take care.
Yep, that's right - I took this evening off, no benchmarks, no writing, nothing. Vinney and I played a bit of Splinter Cell with a friend in D.C., only to realize that we are both very bad spies (Vinney is a bit better than me, she's much more patient than I am at this kind of stuff).
NVIDIA sent me a replacement nForce4 SLI Intel Edition board, but I'm waiting for ASUS' board to arrive tomorrow before beginning my testing. I'd rather test on a production board anyways and the ASUS board should have dual core support so it'll be a good test platform. I'll keep you all updated on that as things progress.
It's looking like the nForce4 bit will be my next article; I haven't decided if I'm going to hand Derek the x64 article or not, I'm waiting to hear back from him on his schedule. To those wanting a 2P Opteron vs. Pentium D comparison, that one's not going to happen but I have one I think you'll appreciate even more in a couple of weeks.
The Theater 550 article is almost complete, it got cast aside to make room for the dual core stuff but hopefully I'll be able to finish it up soon. That's all for now, I'm going to enjoy the rest of the night off :)
Take care.
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Matt - Saturday, April 9, 2005 - link
#13I've never bought a mmorpg, but if it was based on Starcraft I might have to.
dmo - Saturday, April 9, 2005 - link
will only settle for sc 2 where maps don't max so easily =)ksherman - Saturday, April 9, 2005 - link
I wont pay monthly for it, if thats what you mena #13GhandiInstinct - Saturday, April 9, 2005 - link
Hey guys, my friends and I had a great idea about a potential game called World of Starcraft. What do you think?dmo - Friday, April 8, 2005 - link
Seriously I got excited thinking it was STARCRAFT as well.kekeke ling rush ^^
James - Friday, April 8, 2005 - link
Thanks Anand for answering my request (I'm sure one of many) for 2P opteron comparisons to the PentiumD. Dualcore opterons vs dualcore pentium Ds will do just fine... Although April 21st seems like a long ways away ;) Please give some guidance on availability at the time of that review for both dualcore lines as well as anything you can give us on Toledo.Thanks again.
Matt - Friday, April 8, 2005 - link
StarCraft is awesome...And #6, no, It works perfectly in Firefox 1.0.2.
DMZ - Friday, April 8, 2005 - link
Sounds like SOMEONE is waiting for his dual-core Opteron to come in the mail. Guess you found out about the ship date moving up before the rest of us...Wouldn't mind seeing a 4 core Opteron vs 4 core Xeon review, either (hint, hint). It would really provide a lot of good advice on whether the Xeon's FSB problems are as bad as imagined.
-DMZ
ksherman - Thursday, April 7, 2005 - link
aww... I got excited there for a second... I thought you were talking about StarCraft....PrinceXizor - Thursday, April 7, 2005 - link
Not me. Using Firefox 1.0.P-X