Best Graphic card??

[bookworm_020]

Hi,

Just want to know people's experience and recommendations for graphic cards

Which is better?

ATI Radeon or nVidia Ge force??:hmm:

Maybe I should batten down the hatches as there could be incomeing fire...

Thanks

ATI Radeon


though a friend of mine said that Geforce has better overall graphics while ATI has better drivers

[kiwi_2005]

nVidia

Really it shouldn't matter they're both good, ive only stuck to nvida cause i started off with these cards. First one was a TNT with 32mb ram then when the geforce 1 came out nvidia practically put the 3dfx cards out of bussiness. I also owned a 3dfx voodoo 2 they were good cards, it use to scream with power when playing aliens v predator 1. Yet they made the mistake of only having 16bit. nVidia brought out the 32bit display option.

[shegeek72]

I'm biased toward nVidia. I used to have an ATI Radeon 9800 pro that was a fine card for its time. However, there are things about ATI that bug me: to download drivers from the ATI website you need to have the MS bloatware .Net installed (who's the idiots?). When I reluctantly installed .Net on my system it totally screwed up my custom desktop that fortunately returned to normal after uninstalling .Net. After the fact, I found out ATI drivers could be d/l from non-ATI websites. But after the experience with .Net and three tech support emails to ATI going unanswered, I didn't want anything to with them.

nVidia drivers are more of a "one size fits all," but I've had no problems with either my current card (6800 GT) or drivers. Though I think ATI v. nVidia is like Intel v. AMD, each is trying to one-up each other which is good for the consumer and keeps their technology on the cutting edge. btw, I go with AMD cuz you get more bang for the buck and I've found most gamers use AMD.

YMMV
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[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.

[Gizzmoe]

Originally Posted by shegeek72

However, there are things about ATI that bug me: to download drivers from the ATI website you need to have the MS bloatware .Net installed (who's the idiots?).

ATI also offers versions that don´t need .NET.

[shegeek72]

ATI also offers versions that don´t need .NET.

Well, they didn't for the months I had a 9800 and I checked every driver, including the one supposedly without the control panel.
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[Skybird]

nVidia. I heared it often, and finally was affected from it myself, that ATI drivers cause more people a headache, than that of nVidia - I tried an ATI card recently, but finally gave back the card. All ATI drivers that I tried gave me problems, despite clean and careful deinstallation and clean new installation. Never had any problem with nVidia drivers.Also, ATI chips gets hotter than nVidias of comparable performance.

[TteFAboB]

I have no idea.

I have an ATI, but I came from a GeForce 3 trash, well, I still have that on another machine.

It's not fair for me to compare this super ATI card with that nVidia junk, it would have to be super versus super or junk vs. junk, so I'll just end this post now and let SUBMAN have a go at it.

[Godalmighty83]

i love my new x1800 wouldnt change it for the world.

[SmokinTep]

My Radeon 9800 pro died a few weeks back. I thought this card was great until I picked up a Nvidia 7800 GT. What a freakin difference.

[micky1up]

for now wait till vista comes in with dx10 before you buy but you can get top performance from the 7950gx2 overclocked mine and i get a fraction away from 7900gtxSLI performance for hundreds of pounds cheaper

[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.