ATI or nVidia

[StylingPaT]

What do you think is better and why

[asphaltcowboy]

I do like ATI, perhaps more than nVidia, but recent ATI's haven't had very good cooling systems: they get SO hot :( Another problem is that some companies don't develop for them (e.g. GTA3 doesn't work afaik). That's not their fault though :(

[StylingPaT]

Yeah :-\ alot of companys are building their games around nVidia

Why cant you put more points into the poll? Did it close aready? lol. Its been 5 min

[Digitalosophy]

i had both, nVidia seems to be much better

[Niann]

I have both as well, I like my ATI much better. =) Although, I do have some games that get flakey on the ATI, and they play fine on the nVidia. :sigh:

Cheers!
-Niann

[prstudio]

nvidia's technology appears to be way better, i havent had much experience with ATI, but the nvidia nforce on board graphics system is amazing...

i hear they are also thinking about jumping to making full processors in the near future

[Marz]

Radeon 9700 PRO all the way... :)

[λ]

I tend to prefer nVidia... I just generally get a feeling that their boards are more complete.

That said, if someone offered me a Radeon 9700 Pro, then I'd take it :beam: :thumb:

[BadMagick]

I dunno... my nVidia card for my laptop is a piece of junk. I mean - it works ok, but the drivers I have for it are so unstable. I put in the updated drivers and it messed up my whole system. I had to revert to the old one that came with my machine's setup disk. Even then it was a little sketchy. I haven't had any problems in a long time, but then again, I haven't play games on it in a long time.

I haven't had an ATI, but from what I know from nVidia - doesn't make me like them much.

[thoriphes]

:love:nVidia:love:

Never owned an ATI, always had an nVidia, never failed.

[prstudio]

rofl i would like to have the ketchup box one, it makes the hot dogs look extra good!

[I am the Noah]

mmm nividia for sure! but recently the FX cards don't work very well with DX9 unlike ATI. That sucks because i just got halo for pc and its a directX game and i have a FX5600. the new drivers for it make it run a 1000 times better, but it messes the fan up :(

[Phat7]

My nVidia is pissing me off lately. I can't even view flash sites normally, the processor goes nuts! :a:

[λ]

^^

That has probably nothing to do with your nVidia card... I mean, it might be, but Flash really only uses your processor... it only uses your graphics card for drawing 2D graphics, which pretty much any card can handle nowadays.

[kirupa]

I'm all about performance, so my pick changes every few product cycles. Right now it is all about ATI - their graphics cards seem to be outperforming the latest nVidia processors. The 256 MB 9800 PRO series of cards seem pretty good for almost any....word processing and flash animation work :sure:

[Yeldarb]

i've got a radeon 9700 Pro, and it is simply amazing. I downloaded the hacked catalyst 3.4's and now it's software overclocked to the speed of a 9800 :)
the only thing that i've seen a less than expected perfomance on is dock speed, i've heard that nVidia works better for those

[Digitalosophy]

Originally posted by playamarz
Radeon 9700 PRO all the way... :)

blasphemy! lol na, i really hated my radion, maybe yours is better


Nvidia G-Force 128 mg 4200 is the one i have. it's real cheap now, about $150, you just can't go wrong

[thoriphes]

I like nVidia for their common Detonator drivers.
I dislike ATI for their problems with some games.

[Mik3]

Seems like the new game engines seem to run MUCH faster on ATI than nVidia... I mean brand new games like Half-Life2

http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20030912/images/image005.gif

[thoriphes]

Originally posted by :mike:
Seems like the new game engines seem to run MUCH faster on ATI than nVidia... I mean brand new games like Half-Life2

http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20030912/images/image005.gif Yeah, that's because ATI bought rights to bundle HL2 with its cards so Valve is working on optimizing it the most for ATI cards.

[Phat7]

Originally posted by njs12345
^^

That has probably nothing to do with your nVidia card... I mean, it might be, but Flash really only uses your processor... it only uses your graphics card for drawing 2D graphics, which pretty much any card can handle nowadays.

Gut nVidia, gut :nerd:

[StylingPaT]

128MB ATI Radeon 9800 Pro all the way :thumb:

[eilsoe]

well... my Radeon 9600PRO card is arriving today.. so... :sure:


And my old card is an Nvidia Geforce 4 MX440... (crap)



I'm happy! :thumb:

[dessoya]

Originally posted by asphaltcowboy
I do like ATI, perhaps more than nVidia, but recent ATI's haven't had very good cooling systems: they get SO hot :( Another problem is that some companies don't develop for them (e.g. GTA3 doesn't work afaik). That's not their fault though :(

well, i have a 9500pro and every game runs very good... even halflife runs good in both opengl and direct3d mode...
and it doesnt get hot - okay i have an waterchill now ^^ ;)

~:azn:

[thoriphes]

Originally posted by dessoya
well, i have a 9500pro and every game runs very good... even halflife runs good in both opengl and direct3d mode...
and it doesnt get hot - okay i have an waterchill now ^^ ;)

~:azn: you're not talking about half-life 2 are you? :-\