ATI or NVIDIA

DirtRider said:

Well I have heard people say that if you run AMD with ATI it seems to work best so this may be the thing to remember. Personaly I cannot say never really looked into it as I have also always only been with Intel

NO NO NO.

Just to reiterate (AGAIN), this has absolutely no basis in fact.
PLEASE stop spreading this.

~Lordbob

Out of the over the dozen or so XFX cards I've had I've only had to RMA 2 of then and since I live only 40 miles from their headquarters I could send it out on Monday and get it back by Friday.
But to be perfectly honest my prefered brand is Evga. Fabe

Lordbob75 said:

DirtRider said:

Well I have heard people say that if you run AMD with ATI it seems to work best so this may be the thing to remember. Personaly I cannot say never really looked into it as I have also always only been with Intel

NO NO NO.

Just to reiterate (AGAIN), this has absolutely no basis in fact.
PLEASE stop spreading this.

~Lordbob

Actually there was one CAT release that claimed an X% performance increase on AMD+ATI systems (9.12?) compared to an Intel+ATI system.

Whether that was just ATI marketing hype that actually panned out or not is a matter of conjecture.

It didn't make any difference to bugs however.


The thing with ATI drivers and issues varies a lot between games. One release may work with title A,B,C but not D,E,F.

If you are playing title A,B,C with driver X that works - you'll never notice an issue. And thus be one of the lucky users that 'has never' had an issue with any of the drivers.

But if you try A,B,C,D,E,F with driver X - where d,E,F is broken/flawed - you're going to notice an issue.

Then again being a crossfire user just adds fuel to the fire.

Just last night, I fired up Dirt 2 for the first time in ages on Cat 10.7a and it was woeful - jumping and flickering and unplayable. Reverted back to 10.5a = perfect.

But single GPU's aren't immune to issues, but if you lucky enough not to notice any issues - then you are lucky :)

I had plenty of trouble with Nvida cards. I stuck with Nvidia because my card was under warranty. After upgrading the card (and paying the difference in price), I played with five different drivers before I got rid of the freezes and blue screens. I have had no problems since then. It was an older driver that worked for me, the third one down on the list. The latest drivers, including the beta, did not work.

Well it has been said over and over that ATI is cheaper than NIVDIA. Personally I would rather pay double the price and know when I get behind my monitor and play a game I don't have to spend 90% of that time tuning the card in just for that game or never getting that game to run correctly at all as I had with the ATI card

cloud8521 said:

DirtRider said:

Well it has been said over and over that ATI is cheaper than NIVDIA. Personally I would rather pay double the price and know when I get behind my monitor and play a game I don't have to spend 90% of that time tuning the card in just for that game or never getting that game to run correctly at all as I had with the ATI card

yet again, i have never done that for any game and they all work great

Same here.
I just got the 5850 about 6 weeks ago. I removed the GTX285 and 9600GT and put in the 5850 and booted up, loaded the drivers, and it's been fine.
Played a few games in Eyefinity, Crysis, Counterstrike, and Borderlands.
Been playing Just Cause 2 as well, just with 1 screen though, should try it in Eyefinity sometime.

Currently I am an ATI fan:

The last 3 nVidia cards I had all did not work for one reason or another. One card BSOD my machine at the end of the Vista days and BSOD my Windows 7 machine, nothing would fix it and Support had no clue.

I now have an ATI card in the same machine not a single BSOD so I know for sure it was the video card.

I feel each have their pros and cons.