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Weak, I'll stick with Nvidia. Although, I haven't gamed on the puter since... well GTAIV. Not much of a fan of what is on the market these days. GT5 is the only thing I've been waiting for since Doom 3. I know I know... that's a PS3 game, but it's the only reason i bought a PS3. Shoot, my last console was a PS1
I went the ATI route, got sick of the drivers (BSOD's), moved back to Nvidia when the 200 series was new. Nothing has changed in this puter since then, well except the processor.
If ATI wants to "confuse" people, let 'em have at it. Usually a bigger digit would lead everyone to believe that the 5 series was replaced by the 6... as they have done on every other series in the past.
Oh I'm sorry... AMD! I didn't even notice the change.
Although I'd agree that it probably confused a number of people (like yourself lol), the new naming scheme has a reason behind it.
The new HD 6800 series, while released to replace the 'old' HD 5700 series cards, were aimed @ a much higher price/performance baseline (as a direct result of the enormous success of the GTX 460 series cards). The 'old' HD 5700 series cards debuted in the ~$130/$170 price range IIRC, while these new cards debuted in the ~$200/$250 price range.
Last edited by SlackerITGuy; 20 Nov 2010 at 21:01.
heh, their 6900 series better be bomb. Hopefully they get their drivers finally figured out!
Their drivers are not as bad as advertised my man.
I had a HD 5770 not that while ago, and their drivers were rock solid for me.
Much better than NVIDIA drivers to be quite honest.
There... I said it lol.
EDIT: BTW I have no doubt in my mind that Cayman (HD 6900 series cards) will be a HUGE success.
I frequently had BSOD when I had my ATI's. wouldn't crossfire on my M3A79T deluxe. Just somethin with Sapphire cards and ASUS 790FX boards. Anyways... after sorting through 2 doa's... I finally got one to boot... the entire time I had it, there wasn't one particular month that it didn't bsod on me (Vista at the time). And when I was still in college, all of our pc's we built in class had ATI hd 3200 integrated. Even with strictly onboard, the drivers led to BSOD on our puters( GA-MA78GM-S2H ).
There was also hybrid crossfire... but of course that never worked with a card any higher than a 37xx series! The concept/idea was great though. Just wish it worked!
But I give ATI/AMD credit... a year later (after the system was built), the computer is finally stable!