Topic: OT: thank god for the Taldren Forums!

[Tremok]

 ATI! ATI! Boo Nvidia Boo! Egg it! Egg it!

Edit: Count on a wife to get a graphics card nicknamed the Dustbuster.

Now, which way to run...  

[Captain KoraH]

Post deleted. Sorry to offend anyone.

[Dogmatix!]

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Why the negative on the graphics card? haven't installed it yet...still open to input.  

Well, I thought it had been made abundantly clear within the graphics card afficionado community that the ATI Radeon line, specifically the 9700 Pro and 9800 Pro were as good, if not better in nearly every respect than the best nVidia has to offer.


If you were willing to take the time, you could probably learn all you ever wanted to know on the subject over at www.rage3d.com (this is an ATI-oriented site, but most of the poeple there will tell it straight, either way)  as well as the various hardware review sites.  I'm given to believe that ATI's image quality is better, doesn't suffer from nearly as big a hit as nVidia's cards do when you have anti-aliasing and ansiotropic filtering enabled and they simply perform faster in most benchmarks and real world gaming situations.


I'm not an ATI fanboy by any means, though I do get sick of people bagging on ATI based upon a past history of poor drivers.  I've owned both brands of cards and there's no doubt in my mind that ATI has the best cards on the market right now.  If anything, one could call me an AMD fanboy...and I'd still buy that P4 rig that was referenced above.  As it stands, I'll just wait a while a build an AMD 64-bit rig.  My current rig has an nVidia nForce chipset and I'll readily admit that for the Athlon T-breds, that's the best chipset.  I got with what's best, not who makes it...though in terms of processors, I'd been a long supportor or AMD because if AMD ever goes away, look out...


Incidentally, I own a 9700 Pro and there's nothing about the top-of-the-line nVidia card that would cause me to swap my card for one of those, even if it were free...and this is a 9700 Pro, not even a 9800 Pro.

[Dogmatix!]

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Everyone seem to be laying into the 5900 series right now after the Half Life 2 benchmarks were released showing that the ATI 9800 had a significant performance advantage. I certainly wouldn't pay full price for the Nvidia (and didn't - I got one for £150 below list price) but it's not a bad card by any stretch. Just doesn't seem to be all that quick  in DX9 games compared with its competitor. It'll still run SFC, and thats all that matters!  

Both are good cards...no doubt.  I'm saying I believe the ATI cards are the best buy for your money right now.  If she goes for the 5900, she will likely be happy.  She won't have the best card on the market, but she'll be happy...  


If it were me and I was going to spend that much on a card, I'd want to make sure it was the best one, that's all.