26th October 2004, 3:11 PM
Yet their crippled and non-crippled cards still outperform their nvidia counterparts. It doesn't hurt us, it just doesn't make much sense. I have one of the earlier 9700s which is actually a 9700 Pro with four rendering pipelines disabled, but thanks to a simple hack my cheap card became a 9700 Pro which saved me a bunch of money. I have no qualms with that!