Posted 11/12/2009 at 01:57:37pm

 These cards do look impressive, kinda remind me of the GeForce 8800 Ultra cards. If they perfrom as good as they look, that would be awesome (is it just me ore does the cooling sleeve look like the top of a V6). But knowing the GPU market, ATI will most likely respond with a faster card (or at least the distributors will). Also,  a Radeon 5870 series X2 card on the way, the GPU market will yet again most likely turn into a battlefield (of GPU releases).

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Posted 05/12/2009 at 05:30:17pm

 First things first, i know im not the first one to see these problems. One, eventually the amount you spend on service monthly fee (because no service like this will survive for long without charging customers extra) will accumulate to a larger dollar figure than just buying a gaming PC. Second, even Blizzard, Second Life, and even ISPs cant guarantee 100% service reliability. So for the ppl that play WoW on a home P, when the server is down for work, you can just switch to another game to play, if the OnLive server or servers go down, you cant play any games at all if u just use OnLive. Second, 80ms seems high, but you have to remember when you play games online on a home PC, the latency of your connection added to the latency between ISPs, Servers, and the other player to his ISP, what do you get, you get the time it takes for another player to see your actions. The 1.5 MB/s minimum is for the video, while the latency is for the control response. So ppl with the 15Mbit/s connection or faster will be ELLIGABLE to join OnLive. By Elligable, i mean if your community isn't hogging bandwidth that day. For those with Fiber or some kind of expensive connection, you prolly dont have to worry (as long as your latency is under 80MBs). So with all of these flaws and the benefits listed in the article, is it worth buying into? Maybe if you can use it as a service where you can play games away from home, and somehow play the same game you bought with your hard drive on your own computer as well. It is good for those who can't afford a fancy gaming computer, or who just want to play games and not care about quality. However, if you're an enthusiast or a gamer like me, the cons outweigh the pros. However, to see that technology has come this far is amazing, and with the help of the FCC's broadband to everyone plans, and DOCSIS 3.0 (search it on google if u dont know wat it is), this technology could benefit many people in the future.

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