Thanks for nice words!

There is one game limited by CPU performance in our tests. That's Quake 4. In future we will use more powerful processors.

We used the latest drivers - Catalyst 5.12 released a couple of days in case of ATI. We do not tend to retest all the boards across all games and boards every couple of weeks when any company releases its new drivers. We believe two months lifecycle for a driver is sutable for us and the majority of the readers.

i love xbitlabs always good reviews and the site interface is easy in use, whitout 3000 thousend ads.

We used the latest drivers - Catalyst 5.12 released a couple of days in case of ATI. We do not tend to retest all the boards across all games and boards every couple of weeks when any company releases its new drivers. We believe two months lifecycle for a driver is sutable for us and the majority of the readers.

Wait for future reviews - we use simulatores very often.

We never rename games or change hidden game settings, as it is not something that the majority of end-users would do.

I dont get why the heck you guys used the latest ATI drivers but not the latest Nvidia drivers. The 81.95 drivers have been out since november 18. I know for a fact that these nvidia drivers were out before the new ATI cat 5.12 drivers, so there is no reason not to use them. By not using the latest drivers from each company you are definitely sliding this articles bias in ATI's favor in a big way. Re run those same tests with the 5.11 cats and see how crappy the x1800xt perform when they dont have drivers that are compatible. The 81.94 add support for the 6800GS and the 81.95 add support for the 7800GTX 512mb, so how the hell can you guys do tests with an incompatible driver and call things fair?

From what i see by this manuver your article has no meaning what so ever since not every single card is on the same playing field since not every card had the correct driver support. You guys wait for the 5.12 cats so the new ATI cards will work properly, but dont do the same for the nvidia cards. You just lost my trust and xbit will not be a site i recommend anymore cause of this blatent bias towards one company. You go out to present a massive review of cards and dileberatly put the nvidia cards at a disadvantage by using drivers that were months old rather than the newest ones that were out weeks before the ATI 5.12 cats were. This is a major issue and this article should be taken down until the tests can be run with the proper drivers like they should have been the first time.

Performance of modern graphics cards does not improve tangibly with every new driver release, which is why we tend to use one driver for about two months or so, which saves us a lot of time and allows to publish results of higher amount of benchmarks.

In case a company provides us hardware and software on time for our test schedules, then we publish appropriate results. Given that 81.95 was not considered as a major new release even by NVIDIA, we do not feel it makes a lot of sense to retest the boards for this particular review.

Wait for future reviews with future drivers.

This site has always been pro ATI... i'm not at all surprised by this review. Every other site like, tomshardware, anandtech, hardocp etc. would give you an unbiast result.

Furthermore, i don't think leaving a message here or via email to the editor will give you any response. Even when they make a mistake.