Omega site has updated 3.5 cat's and news about Nvidia

[Pluvious]

Heads up people.. update yesterday on Omega's site.

New Omegas for the 3.5 Cats and some interesting comments about
Nvidia.

Power to the gamers man!


www.omegacorner.com

Pluvious

 

[Paul Rovero]

Thanks for the news!

-Paul

 

[jack]

Hi there

Can you believe Nvidia. From gamers cards to lamers cards in one go.
They`ve gone real bad in the enthusiast community and they`ve gotten them
where they are now.
So maybe they don`t belong there anyway. No Nvidia for me anymore, it`s a
matter of principal.
Nforce2 is the same story,very poor driver support and atitude.
Tested several nforce2 drivers and all gave problems from problematic to
disaterous.

Nvidia.........PHUUUUU

Gonna get me P4 with ati chipset.

BYE

Jack

 

[Ken]

Hi there

Can you believe Nvidia. From gamers cards to lamers cards in one go.
They`ve gone real bad in the enthusiast community and they`ve gotten them
where they are now.

Nvidia resembles what the 3dfx was years ago, by denying and straight-up
lying to the consumers as they think they will get away with it.

 

[TheSingingCat]

Heads up people.. update yesterday on Omega's site.

New Omegas for the 3.5 Cats and some interesting comments about
Nvidia.

Power to the gamers man!


www.omegacorner.com

Pluvious

Brutal. Just brutal, shame on nvidia for trying to halt the work on the
omega drivers. While I do currently run a gf3 card, when it is time for
upgrades I will definitely look else where first before I support a company
which tries to squash community efforts and design.

 

[Frank Weston]

Just because NVidia has been somewhat heavy-handed in the matter doesn't
make them wrong.

Maybe not wrong, but plenty stupid businesswise. The enthusiast community
swing a big hammer when it comes to influencing buying decisisons,
particular with the top end stuff upon which advertising claims can be
based.

On the surface, it appears to me that nVidia just shot themselves in the
foot. Maybe there's more to it than is generally known.

 

[Pluvious]

Maybe not wrong, but plenty stupid businesswise. The enthusiast community
swing a big hammer when it comes to influencing buying decisisons,
particular with the top end stuff upon which advertising claims can be
based.

On the surface, it appears to me that nVidia just shot themselves in the
foot. Maybe there's more to it than is generally known.

Yes they did. The gamers will take notice and I'm sure will remember
that when they upgrade next time. I switched to ATI after the FX
disaster.. (FX FLOW and the specs) Now that I've seen the ATI on my
own rig I was kinda upset I could have had this picture quality and
performance a year and a half ago instead of thinking my 4400TI was
the shit. Turns out I was right.. it was the shits.

Nvidia will have to do something pretty amazing for me to switch back
now.

Pluvious

 

[Ian Merrithew]

Maybe not wrong, but plenty stupid businesswise. The enthusiast
community swing a big hammer when it comes to influencing buying
decisisons, particular with the top end stuff upon which advertising
claims can be based.

Uh, I'm sorry, what? Like Dell, HP, and other OEMs are going to give a
flying fig what a bunch of driver hackers think about how they've been
treated for being on the wrong side of copyright law when evaluating what
cards to include in their PCs. Like Joe Q Public is really going to know
or care whether NVidia treats some website he's never heard of with kid
gloves or heavy hammers when he's comparing prices. The trade mags won't
even touch the story at all, or I doubt it anyway. I think the market
you're referring to is a much narrower one than you're portraying it as;
we're talking the very hard-core online gamers only that are going to
give a damn, and the performance extremists will still switch cards the
moment that NVidia pulls 100 points ahead of ATI on the next 3dMark
benchmark (or whatever the hot one is to measure by these days).

If the hardware stays at or near the edge of the performance curve, it'll
sell.

 

[Ian Merrithew]

If the choices of the elite weren't so
influential on sales, there wouldn't be any celebrity or professional
product endorsements.

Well, it's arguable how effective such advertising really is in the days
of VCRs, remote controls, and 800 channels, but that's a separate
argument that's off-topic for this NG. Let's leave it as agree-to-
disagree.

problem nVidia is facing now is that they're not getting that top
score. Actually they're getting pretty poor reviews on most sites.
So, they're not perceived as delivering top performance, and now,
they've pissed off a segment of the enthusiast community.

Yeah, I'm aware nVidia is in something of a slump right now, performance-
wise. If they pull out of it, they'll be fine, though, especially if
they avoid any further PR blunders. And I don't disagree that slamming
down Omega was a PR blunder, I just think in the long run it'll amount to
little more than a momentary blip in sales.