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ATI - Nvidia: what do you use, pros & cons ect.
MaskTheEnd
Member Posts: 11
So tell me, who is in the lead right now do you say?
ATI has crossfire with the Radeon X1950 crossfire
which i believe is their best so far, and Nvidia i have no idea about.
Post what you play, your graphic specs. Most of all, unbiased info of whats going on with the leading Graphics cards
or maybe a strait up brawl!
lets see what happens
ATI has crossfire with the Radeon X1950 crossfire
which i believe is their best so far, and Nvidia i have no idea about.
Post what you play, your graphic specs. Most of all, unbiased info of whats going on with the leading Graphics cards
or maybe a strait up brawl!
lets see what happens
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Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.
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I use Nvidia. Nvidia has the best card right now (8800 GTX and GTS). I suspect though when ATI releases their next card they will have the lead again. It goes back and forth between the two, who has the better product.
Nvidia Geforce 6200 256 mb, I don't use ATI because I've never had problems with Nvidia. Although when setting up my mothers comp I got her an ATI, it works fine so I might consider one in the future if I need to.
I only upgrade my card when the upgrade I want is dirt cheap, I upgraded from a fx 5500 to a 6200 last year and will probably get one in the 7000's at the end of this year. No need to get the latest card since the cheap one runs everything I have perfectly
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
CS Lewis
I always use ATI because i prefer their drivers and because I'm familar with their cards.
I find it amazing that by 2020 first world countries will be competing to get immigrants.
Never really got problems with it... whenever I did I just downloaded the latest drivers and the problems were gone...
I've heard Nvidia are better but are also more expensive..... don't know if that's true, but as already mentioned they have the best card right now, the 8800GT... it's also the only (togheter with the other 8800) DX10 card at the moment.
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Played- Runescape, Conquer
Tested- EQ, RYL, Freeworld
nVidia 8800 GTX for me... I guess my loyalty with nVidia goes back to the days where they were the only chipset maker who supported OpenGL right out of the box.
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7x00, 9000, 9200, 9250
If you want a more complete list of suffixes, check this link:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_Video_Card_Suffixes
i wonder if its worth updating to 7.0 (released at the same time as vista)
hopefully some time soon i'll be doing crossfire with a X1950 being that they'll be going to half price later this month.
the only problem i've had is studdering when playing FEAR
that game REALY does not like ATI cards.
I find it amazing that by 2020 first world countries will be competing to get immigrants.
"The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand."
- Lewis Thomas
Funny thing... my half decent X800GT runs that game like a charm with pretty high settings.
Funny thing... my half decent X800GT runs that game like a charm with pretty high settings.
Heh, my 7600GS runs it great with everything maxed. I love Nvidia.
I shoot for the curve... anything above that is gravy.
To date of this posting, AMD has finally released their next card - the X2900XT. Don't know why they didn't make an XTX version, which they have always done in the past, but it retails for about $399.99 USD. While the nVidia branch has released their 8800 Ultra version, which retails for around $799.99 USD which supposingly has a 10%-15% advantage over the previous 8800GTX, which retails anywhere between $549.99 and $599.99 USD.
I recently purcased an Asus EN8800GTX, and I am quite pleased. Although, it does run smokin' hot (around 60c-80c) it still manages to dish out around 350 FPS in Half Life 2 and Counter-Strike: Source at max quality, 2x AA. My friend, on the other hand, recently purched a Saphire Radeon X2900XT for the standard retail price. He does get some decent framerates - for the price, but if you really want some benchmark topping framerates the 8800GTX is the way to go. The X2900XT does get close to the 8800GTX in standard benchmarks, but if you have the money for an 8800, you could probably buy a water-cooling kit and overclock it anyway. The problem is you really need to overclock your CPU to truly get the power out of the 8800GTX - I have a 2.99GHz E6600 C2D and it still bottlenecks on every game I play running at 1280x1024. Nevertheless, who is to tell which is truly better? I have yet to see a game to fully support DirectX 10.
Fatt-Slice
~-[The one and only]-~
Top five most anticipated:
1. Hellgate: London
2. Halo 3
3. Bioshock
4. Grand Theft Auto IV
5. Crysis
Then I bought a brand new computer with an Nividia 6600 card. It sucks. my card does NOT like water. It doesn't matter what kind of water apears on the screen, low res, high res, as soon as I see water in a game, my FPS drops to 20 and below. same goes for smoke and fire. bam, FPS drop. Some games are completely unplayable on this PoS. Guild Wars? Out of the question. Lotro? Nope. Even WoW often has FPS drops, its pathetic.
I came to the conclussion that both Ati and NVIDIA suck.
I did some work for Ubisoft and they paid me in Nvidia cards. Before that I had been a Matrox and 3dFX man. They also gave me a 3dfx 6000 card which was better than Geforce 2, but they never made it to market.
Now I stick with Nvidia so that all my machines use the same driver. No complaints, no reason to change.
ATi have their new 2000 series cards on the way out to rival Nvidi'a 8000's. That should bring the prices down. All is good.
I have friends who run ATI cards, they are all excellent. If the top end ATI card was a £100 cheaper than the top end Nvidia I would buy it instead. As long as the prices are more less the same, no need for me to change brand.
How do you figure your 3GHZ cpu is bottlenecking your computer. $5 says it's not even using 40% of that power to run your games.
Not unless you are playing Supreme Commander with 1000 units and in that case you aren't using a lot of GFX power on that sort of game. Outside of servers there isn't a game on the market that uses anything like 3GHZ of CPU power and certainly not any FPS. Half Life2's minimum requirements are a 700M Hz PIV equivalent. Your GFX card doesn't add load to your CPU, it reduces it.