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Re: NVIDIA answers Your questions!

motowater — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:40:56 GMT

yeah, well microsoft will always admit they are doing something for the "better" of our systems.

Re: NVIDIA answers Your questions!

extremepilot — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:09:39 GMT

Their answers are so cheesy...

"Using DirectX 10 vs. DirectX 9 doesn’t mean trading off performance."

Of course it does.

Re: NVIDIA answers Your questions!

THEgOAT — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:12:35 GMT

are you going to ask them about the failure rate on the 790, 780, and 750 chipsets and why the last driver release for the 9800 cards didnt fix the fan speed reverting issue like they said it would?

dont get me wrong here, i use is nVidia products and love them for the most part(2-9800gtx sli, 1-9600gt512, 8800gs384, 680i a1 mobo) but these are the questions they need to be asked.

Re: NVIDIA answers Your questions!

ning — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:47:55 GMT

Well put, Nachowarrior. We just want to thank nVidia for stepping up to the plate, because we all know that most companies would skirt this type of opportunity to publicly answer questions from users.

Anyhow, we're looking forward to Round 2 of the Q&A session, which according to my watch should be in any time now!

-ning

Re: NVIDIA answers Your questions!

nachowarrior — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:00:16 GMT

I like how the part of my question concerning ageia and licensing the tech was answered by the simple "as well as future business". Meaning what again?

Anyway, The fact that most of the questions went relatively unanswered, showed that we really did have some tough questions collectively, and most media outlets won't get into these types of questions. The press is supposed to make the interviewee sweat a bit and press the good stuff... don't see that done often enough anymore. I think this is a great way for both the community and the company to benefit and possibly see more product changes that consumers really want, not what their marketing department thinks we want. That is, provided that these 'interviews' fall into the proper hands within the company. :-p

anyway, I enjoyed being a part of this thread, and may just have to go come up with something good to ask intel in the upcoming interview.

Re: NVIDIA answers Your questions!

Kardon — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:59:00 GMT

I give an A for effort to newegg, they really did a good job.

Nvidia however gets a D-. On one hand it was very cool of them to give the time and energy to newegg for the interview, but come on guys stop with the cookie cutter responses and answer the real questions. We know you can’t be so dense that you don’t understand what the questions are really asking.

Re: NVIDIA answers Your questions!

ish718 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:00:25 GMT

lol, the most obscured interview yet

Re: NVIDIA answers Your questions!

Spoiler — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:42:27 GMT

EGG: In the near future, will upgrading a video card be just like adding a new CPU and/or RAM to your motherboard? It seems that the more we demand out of these cards, the more real-estate they will need. So are swappable video processors and video ram even a thought?

NVIDIA: Users can and do upgrade their GeForce graphics cards with ease. SLI technology allows anyone with an nForce SLI-ready motherboard to simply add a second graphics card to the PC and install a new driver. The future is now!

I got a kick out of this response. Upgrade a video Card by purchasing another one! Now why didn't we think of that?

A company attempting to answer the questions of the public is a rare and a welcomed event, thanks.

Re: NVIDIA answers Your questions!

ning — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:45:32 GMT

Hey guys, just a quick update. We should have part 2 of the interview by the end of this month. Nvidia said they're also going to provide a bit of follow up to some of your Q's from part 1, for clarification, etc.

Stay tuned...

-ning

Re: NVIDIA answers Your questions!

RoboBro — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:57:05 GMT

For real, I still can't help but think about that "crummy" coprocessor that's going unused on my mobo. If you think about how many cycles you add on by overclocking, that little integrated graphics chip ain't so bad. On top of it all, I have a 1.1KW PSU to feed my hungry SLI, so the idea of using my integrated graphics once in a while is rather enticing.

Re: NVIDIA answers Your questions!

MrMonroe — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:40:19 GMT

^^ glad we got that cleared up.

Re: NVIDIA answers Your questions!

Kardon — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:50:08 GMT

RoboBro:
NVIDIA:
The first graphics card to support Hybrid Power is the GeForce 9800 GX2, which just launched March 18. The first motherboard to support Hybrid SLI is the nForce 780a for the AMD platform, which will launch in early April.
Check it out, from the last two sentences of the first answer given. I have no doubt that an Intel-based mobo will support it in the near future, but why should ATI be first?

AMD is the first to release a mobo with crummy integrated graphics that can use hybrid sli with the 9800gx2. The 9800gx2 still works fine on Intel boards. The only real cool thing about hybrid SLI is th energy savings because suposibly the computer will be smart enough to turn off the power hungry graphics card when running 2d apps

Re: NVIDIA answers Your questions!

Penewab2007 — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:19:58 GMT

Kudos to the Egg Team, we all know you folks are doing this in our better interests. I too though am dissappointed they chose to clam up like a politician during an ivestigation hearing on Captial Hill.

If it's true there's more questions to be asked, I don't think they're going to expound on anything of great weight though. Sorry for my pessimism, but they couldn't have been anymore elusive on a majority of the key stuff that was asked.

I think in the next interview, they should be made aware that some of these issues we're really concerned with, and would like a bit more than canned alpo. Wonderwrench poses some really good concerns, kudos dude/ette (?). Also, are we all dupes, he said we can all get by with mid-range CPUs, just what is his cut off point for which grade CPU is over kill? I mean is anyone with Quad Core just tossing their $$$ away? I hate to think they are, or myself, someday.

In respect,

Penewah!

Re: NVIDIA answers Your questions!

RoboBro — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:47:20 GMT

NVIDIA:
The first graphics card to support Hybrid Power is the GeForce 9800 GX2, which just launched March 18. The first motherboard to support Hybrid SLI is the nForce 780a for the AMD platform, which will launch in early April.

Check it out, from the last two sentences of the first answer given. I have no doubt that an Intel-based mobo will support it in the near future, but why should ATI be first?

Re: NVIDIA answers Your questions!

MrMonroe — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:23:27 GMT

RoboBro:
I must say, I'm a little perplexed (and disappointed) that the 9800 GX2 will initially only be supported by an AMD-capable mobo. IMHO, Intel has jumped ahead in CPU performance, and I hope it isn't long before an Intel mobo is available to use this beast!

Where did you hear this? It's certainly not true.