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MacsRgr8
Feb 17, 2004, 04:17 PM
For those of you lucky enough to have a nice ATi grfx card:

Check this (http://www.ati.com/developer/demos.html) out.
Take a look at the Mac SmartShader demos (bottom two links). Some very nice demos and screensavers!

Have fun :)


cb911
Feb 18, 2004, 12:34 AM
i saw that animusic demo on a PC ages ago, that ssoooo awesome!!

i just wish they had some screensaver for Mac... they sure have some good ones there.

oops... spoke too soon! they do have all the mac stuff in the Smartshader (Mac) section of course.:D

nice find, i never knew that they had all that stuff for Mac.
themadchemist
Feb 18, 2004, 01:50 AM
ATI can keep its demos and screensavers...I want a graphics card for Mac that isn't sub-par.
MacsRgr8
Feb 18, 2004, 02:04 AM
Originally posted by themadchemist
ATI can keep its demos and screensavers...I want a graphics card for Mac that isn't sub-par.

I don't think ATi's grfx cards are sub-par. No way!
The nVidia's are sub-par at this moment (not for the PC, though)

The 9800 is a superb card. Mac and PC.

The 9000 was a good buy, as is the 9600 for G5.
Makosuke
Feb 18, 2004, 04:01 AM
Woah... those are some seriously cool demos. Nice to see this 9800 actually getting a workout.

And themadchemist has a point about us Mac folks getting second-class-citizen status; although we do have the NVIDIA-destroying 9800, we only just got a 9800 with 256MB of RAM, we still don't have an XT available (is the one I want, mainly on account of the theoretically quieter fan--the BTO 9800 whines like nobody's business!), and the cards we do get have some of the fun TV features stripped out.

Oh, well, a 9800 is better than nothing.
themadchemist
Feb 18, 2004, 10:20 AM
Originally posted by MacsRgr8
I don't think ATi's grfx cards are sub-par. No way!
The nVidia's are sub-par at this moment (not for the PC, though)

The 9800 is a superb card. Mac and PC.

The 9000 was a good buy, as is the 9600 for G5.

The Mac cards are sub-par when placed next to their PC counterparts.
MacsRgr8
Feb 18, 2004, 12:14 PM
Ah... you mean compared to the XT-series.
That's true. But I am glad that the 9800 is here though.
It's too bad nVidia hasn't given us the fx 5900 for comparison and competition.
MorganX
Feb 18, 2004, 12:26 PM
Originally posted by themadchemist
The Mac cards are sub-par when placed next to their PC counterparts.

Not when the PC is running Linux or NT4