7800 line limited by the driver!? HA HA!

[zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG]

it seems that the full overclocking potential in a 7800 as well as some rendering may be a bit off or disabled because of a glitch in the current drivers, seems like the 6800 line will still have a good fight in profits

for the full story at:

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050707_151857.html

 

[Exfoliate]

Damn, always a catch, oh well I don't have one anyway:(

 

[max12590]

Unite against nVidia, they are the evil empire. Well, anyways, nVidia does some good stuff but I always knew there was something suspicious afoot :rolleyes:. It sounds to me like that was intentional, it would be pretty hard to have it do that by mistake. Just protection for the card against stupid people, maybe not.

 

[Exfoliate]

It's a little odd but I'm just assuming it's becuase it's a new chipset and will require new drivers that aren't optimized yet.

 

[max12590]

Yea, it just seems like an incredibly strange problem to have.

 

[Anti-Trend]

Actually, the same kind of issue has happened to ATI in the past, as well as 3DFX, and probably other companies. Besides, the features that are currently disabled in-driver are probably not implemented in any current games anyway. I'm not an NVidia fan boy, but it's important to keep things in context.

 

[zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG]

Yeah, the biggest effect it has is on the overclocking potential

 

[Addis]

As long as its not a hard wired or preprogrammed error than its ok, software can be improved, once you buy a card theres nothing you can do to seriously modify its workings.

 

[max12590]

The thing is, that is only in extreme cooling. Most OCers don't have extreme cooling. Really really high end water and phase change are the only things affected.