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    Nvidia or ATI?

    Last month ATI Technologies announced their high-end Radeon 9800 XT graphics card for next generation gaming systems.

    Just two days ago Nvidia released their new high-end GeForceFX 5700 Ultra and GeForceFX 5950 Ultra graphics processing units (GPUs).



    Which company's products do you prefer to use?
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    no more mr nice guy
    Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

    Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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    • #3
      I bought an ATI 9800pro 2 weeks ago, very satisfied with both the performance and stability. Before that I had a Geforce 2 MX.

      Right now ATI has the performance edge in new games due to its cards having much better DX9 capability. MS is realeasing DX9.1 soon, so this advantage may be short-lived.

      I have no preference towards either company; whatever performs the best I will consider buying.

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      • #4
        I was going to buy a ATI 8500 or something like that. But I heard about problems with that and Neverwinter Nights, so I just went with nvidia. It's a decent card I suppose. I bought one of the lower end ones.

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        • #5
          NVidia, 'drivers maketh the card' :O)

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          • #6
            ATI all the way...i have a Radeon 9600 Pro.......
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            • #7
              My R9000 is kicing arse and taking names...
              UT2k3 is even playable with all settings on highest...
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              Now watch this drive!

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              • #8
                Don't get a Radeon 9200 or GeForce FX 5200.

                Everything else is good on both sides.
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                • #9
                  although ati has the performance crown--and i'd go with performance any day--if nvidia comes up with a better card soon, i'll switch back to them.

                  right now i have a nvidia geforce3... haven't upgraded. were i to upgrade today, i'd go ati, even though i hate their drivers with a passion.

                  nvidia's drivers are beautiful, gorgeous, and don't kill the operating system.
                  B♭3

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                  • #10
                    The new GeForce FX 5700 is actually faster on average than the Radeon 9600 (ever so slightly), and they're in the same price range. The new 52.xx drivers offer a substantial performance increase with no loss of quality (real-time shader precompilation or somesuch).

                    The GeForce FX 5950 (also brand new) is on par with the 9800 XT most of the time.
                    "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                    Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                    • #11
                      why did the change the driver name to "forceware"?

                      seriously, "catalyst" is good, sounds like you're making the graphics speed up... "detonator" is good, sounds like you're making the power explosively good... but "forcewware" sounds like a bunch of star wars dorkdom.
                      B♭3

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                      • #12
                        "Forceware" to me has negative conotations. "Spyware"..."Malware"..."Adware"...

                        "Forceware", to me, sounds like software you don't want but are forced to have for other things to function. Brilliant name, Nvidia (pardon me, "NVIDIA").
                        "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                        Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                        • #13
                          NVidia... I had an ATI Rage card and it sucked... they lost my business. I've had a GeForce 2 GTS and a GeForce 4 TI4200 and was and still am extremely happy with both. I usually skip a generation before I upgrade my video card. I don't know much about the FX series, I'll wait and see what's next. Until then, my GF4 gives me great performance, even with newer games. Half-Life 2 will be the next litmus test for my card.
                          To us, it is the BEAST.

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                          • #14
                            Obviously you haven't heard about Nvidia's cards being half the speed as equivalent ATI cards in HL2 then.
                            "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                            Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                            • #15
                              hmm

                              maybe Iw ill need a new sustem with Halflife 21

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