Right application, wrong card? (letters).(Letter to the Editor)

The article "GeForce3: Nvidia Tackles More than Games" on pg. 60 of your September issue stirs me to respond to a mistake that many hardware reviewers seem to be making these days. In the review, you compared the GeForce3 against the Quadro2 using digital content creation (DCC) software. The GeForce3 and its drivers are designed for gaming and of course will fall short against other DCC-specific video cards such as a Quadro2. It would have been fairer to Nvidia if you had reviewed the Elsa Gloria DCC, which is a high-end derivative of the GeForce3 specifically optimized for DCC software. The Gloria DCC is to the GeForce3 as is the Quadro2 to the GeForce2.

I have both the Elsa Gloria III and the Elsa Gloria DCC, and the Gloria DCC has a 70 to 150 percent boost in performance compared to the Gloria III in DCC applications that I use every day. I hope you are more careful in your future ...