Best Graphic card??

[McBeck]

At this point and for a long time ATI has had the best quality, while Nvidia has had slightly better performance/price ratio.

It has been established that for SH3 ATI is the choice mainly because the water looks better.

[LoBlo]

Originally Posted by McBeck

At this point and for a long time ATI has had the best quality, while Nvidia has had slightly better performance/price ratio.

It has been established that for SH3 ATI is the choice mainly because the water looks better.

You sure about that. I'm on my 3rd ATI 9800 Pro is three years (the previous two not even lasting a year). The first burned out randomly. The 2nd had poor fan quality and went into fan failure and burned out. I'm on the 3rd right now, and doubt it will make a year before burnout.

The good thing though is that the ATI cards (at least the one I've bought) come with a 3 year warranty and replacement if they become fried, and so far ATI has held good on that. You have to register the card as soon as you buy it for the warrant to be valid though. And it only pertains to cards bought directly, not pre-installed on a prebuilt computer (like DELL, Gateway, etc.)

[Gizzmoe]

Originally Posted by LoBlo

You sure about that.

He was talking about the image quality! ATI, just like nVidia, can´t control the quality of the video cards since they don´t manufacture or sell them.

[TDK1044]

ATI. Not even close.

[McBeck]

Originally Posted by LoBlo

You sure about that. I'm on my 3rd ATI 9800 Pro is three years (the previous two not even lasting a year). The first burned out randomly. The 2nd had poor fan quality and went into fan failure and burned out. I'm on the 3rd right now, and doubt it will make a year before burnout.

The good thing though is that the ATI cards (at least the one I've bought) come with a 3 year warranty and replacement if they become fried, and so far ATI has held good on that. You have to register the card as soon as you buy it for the warrant to be valid though. And it only pertains to cards bought directly, not pre-installed on a prebuilt computer (like DELL, Gateway, etc.)

I probably wasnt clear in my statement. ATI has better IMAGE quality than Nvidia

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by McBeck

I probably wasnt clear in my statement. ATI has better IMAGE quality than Nvidia

True, but not enough to where you'd notice much, if anything.

-S

[McBeck]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

True, but not enough to where you'd notice much, if anything.

-S

That might or might not be true.

Some months ago a guy on this forum tested SH3 with both a tope line ATI and Nvidia card. There was a clear difference in the way .f.ex. the water looked.

[McBeck]

On a side note....AMD has just purchased ATI

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by McBeck

On a side note....AMD has just purchased ATI

This means they have lots of $$$ for development. Seems ATI just became the Intel of the graphics card world. Watch Intel snap up NVidia now!

-S