ATi or Nvidia?

[Blix]

Which flavor of videocard do you prefer?

I'm not a gamer but I am a multimedia nut so I go with ATi and the All-In-Wonder myself.

[naku06]

I have two nvidia 8800gtx SLI (NOT crossfire). BE-A-UTIFUL graphics. Cost me a bit though. I been using nvidia for years so...yeah.

<---Gamer btw.

edit: SLI SLI SLI!!!!

[Tokah-Jokah]

nvidia ftw. i just got a 8600gts a few days ago. ati's not bad tho, i've just had nvidia forever.

[TokersAnonymous]

I have only used NVidia, and have no complaints. Except that I bought too low a model, GeForce 6200. At purchase time it did a pretty good job, but these days, it's begging for mercy on Team Fortress 2.

[RavenousDank]

I picked ATI, but i'm becoming more of a fan of nvidia, I havn't played on one, but the next video card I get is a nvidia..I got a radeon 9550 256mb..cheap..but works on the older games, but the new ones, this card doesn't even stand a chance..

damn my mobo having the 4x agp..where my card can go 4x/8x speeds..not getting the full potential of my card
but hey, it runs wow decently

[lastsamurai]

ati did great with their new releases of the HD series cards but nvidia is just blowing them away stat for stat especially with the 8800 and 9300 releases. i would go nvidia unless the motherboard you have supports crossfire and not SLI

Originally Posted by naku06

I have two nvidia 8800gtx crossfire. BE-A-UTIFUL graphics. Cost me a bit though. I been using nvidia for years so...yeah.

<---Gamer btw.

dual nvidia cards technically run on SLI not crossfire.

[eleven357]

I am going to have to go with nVidia here, and yes I have had cards with both chipsets.

The reason I am going with nVidia is for the driver stability issue. ATI's drivers are shit, and I have had issues with ATI drivers with 2 different ATI cards now. I will never buy another ATI video card, sorry AMD.

[naku06]

Originally Posted by lastsamurai

dual nvidia cards technically run on SLI not crossfire.

Thanks for the correction, I'm not much of a hardware guy, soft is where its at.

I will never buy another ATI video card, sorry AMD.

You can still buy their possessors. Amd>Intel...any day.

*clink clink* my two cents.

[TokinBlue]

I'm an ATI man myself. Never really had any issues with them

[pbmike15]

Originally Posted by naku06

Thanks for the correction, I'm not much of a hardware guy, soft is where its at.


You can still buy their possessors. Amd>Intel...any day.

*clink clink* my two cents.

Core 2 Duo > AMD

I've always used ATI for some reason, I don't know. Well, I might have to take that back, let me check what chipset I have in my laptop.

[naku06]

Lawl,

My phenom begs to differ. Hell the 6000+ will out clock a duo.

Bon chance mon frere.

[Tokah-Jokah]

how is the phenom? im doing a new build pretty soon but going for the 6400+ BE cuz it's better for oc'ing but for a while i was tempted to just get the phenom 9500. i know since it's quad-core that it's much better for multitasking but not so much for gaming.

[Retroshark]

i am a die hard Nvidia fan but my mac pro has an ATI Radeon X1900 with 512mb ram
and two 3ghz Dual-Core Intel Xeon with 4gb's of ram

[HighGrowMan]

The word down the pipeline is that this is going to be a moot question in a few years time. Intel has been making big moves in integrating graphics processors into their CPUs; and the results are nothing less than astounding. This is actually what precipitated the merger between AMD and ATI, ATI realized that it's days were numbered, and AMD realized it needed some more power to catch up with Intel.

Where does this leave Nvidia? Some think up a creek with no paddle, but only time will tell.

[naku06]

Originally Posted by Tokah-Jokah

how is the phenom? im doing a new build pretty soon but going for the 6400+ BE cuz it's better for oc'ing but for a while i was tempted to just get the phenom 9500. i know since it's quad-core that it's much better for multitasking but not so much for gaming.

I use this tower(phenom9500, 4gigDDR3, single 8800gtx) for options trading, and graphics work.

I have another(X2 6000+ OC'd front bus, , 2gigDDR2, dual 8800gtx) as my gaming computer.

the phenom sets don't over clock well. And for most games, they aren't even ready for a quad core. Made my mind up rather quickly. better for two powerful cores than to spread resources out too thin.

Also the MB are limited with the new chipset, so you have to do some research before considering it. At the time i couldn't find one with two Vcard slots within budget.