{"id":10766,"date":"2009-08-23T14:05:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T14:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=10766"},"modified":"2009-08-23T14:05:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T14:05:01","slug":"ati-catalyst-9-8-vista-driver-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/ati-catalyst-9-8-vista-driver-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"ATI Catalyst 9.8 Vista Driver Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>QUOTE:<\/strong> <em>&quot;I have to say that when I saw the list of performance improvements on the latest set of Catalyst drivers I was shocked. What was even more interesting, though, was the fact that they\u2019re not a bunch of performance improvements that are aimed at Windows 7, but if you have a quick look at what exactly AMD are offering us it&#8217;s also clear that they&#8217;ve helped remove an important problem that is seen on so many systems.     <br \/>What we&#8217;re seeing is that most gains are seen on big dual CrossFire X setups that find themselves CPU limited. Since graphics cards tend to move faster than CPUs, it&#8217;s not uncommon for CPU limitations to be an issue. This is one of the main reasons we have our CPU overclocked at 3.8GHz, to give the graphics cards we test a fair and balanced scoring pattern.&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, please visit &#8211;<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tweaktown.com\/articles\/2885\/ati_catalyst_9_8_vista_driver_analysis\/index.html\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.tweaktown.com\/articles\/2885\/ati_catalyst_9_8_vista_driver_analysis\/index.html', 'http:\/\/www.tweaktown.com\/articles\/2885\/ati_catalyst_9_8_vista_driver_analysis\/index.html']);\" ><strong>http:\/\/www.tweaktown.com\/articles\/2885\/ati_catalyst_9_8_vista_driver_analysis\/index.html<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUOTE: &quot;I have to say that when I saw the list of performance improvements on the latest set of Catalyst drivers I was shocked. What was even more interesting, though, was the fact that&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,73,147,148,370,242,107],"class_list":["post-10766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amd","tag-ati","tag-catalyst","tag-driver","tag-microsoft","tag-vista","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}