POLL: NVidia, or ATI? What videocard family do YOU use??

[Polaris573]

This is a site "affliated" with ATI?

No, the site isn't affliated with ATI, but it has the ATI softmod drivers, ATI Tool, and the ATI BIOS collection. So it tends to draw a lot of ATI users.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Seems that the fact ATI update their drivers each month is being cited as a positive in the "good things about ATI" have you ever though why? perhaps they just can't get them quite as good as they might be first time around. personally I prefer a good set of simple drivers that once "Tweaked" to my needs dont want or need changing for a while.

I love ATI cards and my old HIS 850XT ICEQ 2 was mega, but there are some things that really Pi*s me off about them just as there is with NVidia. All this talk about unlocking/overclocking abilites of the ATI's is not really any different to NVidia, well currently especially, there aint too many cards of any side out there that on stock cooling will take memory from 660 to 900Mhz+!! and the 7900 does (albeit I wouldnt want to keep it there indefinatly without some good ramsinks). I ONLY got my 7900GT because at the time it was definatly the "Best Bang for Buck" I paid about £12 ($20) more than I would have for an x1800GTO!

Lastly, people are talking about the unlocking potential of the 1800GTO, why bother? for £12 more as I said I got the 7900GT with 24PP so there aint nothing to unlock!......job done.

 

[pt]

10- Nvidia cards come with pictures of pretty girls painted on the heatsinks (usually) .

ATI cards have it too, at least my powercolor X1800GTO have

 

[rpg711]

lol?

 

[i_am_mustang_man]

checking system specs, and the amount of x800gto and x800gto2 users, i feel like that would be a good poll too : does your card have the letters gto in it? yes or no. hahah. i mean, i came to this site because i was building the cheapest, best pc i could, and the x800gto2 fit that bill around november/december '05, so i was on this site all the time for Oc'ing info and posting my computer was the only thing i actually used my sn for. but i looked at tons of cases, and loved it. i was hooked! i didn't actually start posting for real in the forums until april probably, maybe even may! i go here everyday now, and it's all because of the x800gto2 article/forums and of course, atitool!

 

[Alec§taar]

So far, it appears to be a 2:1 ratio++...

See subject-line/title: It appears to be that thusfar...



* See ya, out to enjoy a nice Sunday!

APK

 

[zekrahminator]

I came here mostly because of the softmod drivers and ATItool.

 

[Tatty_Two]

I came here cause you all seemed such fabulous people!........OK I'm a liar!

 

[Azn Tr14dZ]

I came here because...well...you might not believe this but here goes: My internet was messing up, and it wouldn't access many site, but it would always be able to acces this one. So I stayed here, and it's going pretty well, I'm happy my internet was messing up...

 

[Tatty_Two]

I came here because...well...you might not believe this but here goes: My internet was messing up, and it wouldn't access many site, but it would always be able to acces this one. So I stayed here, and it's going pretty well, I'm happy my internet was messing up...

Now thats a nice little story!

 

[Azn Tr14dZ]

It's true though...

 

[_33]

Seems that the fact ATI update their drivers each month is being cited as a positive in the "good things about ATI" have you ever though why? perhaps they just can't get them quite as good as they might be first time around. personally I prefer a good set of simple drivers that once "Tweaked" to my needs dont want or need changing for a while.

I love ATI cards and my old HIS 850XT ICEQ 2 was mega, but there are some things that really Pi*s me off about them just as there is with NVidia. All this talk about unlocking/overclocking abilites of the ATI's is not really any different to NVidia, well currently especially, there aint too many cards of any side out there that on stock cooling will take memory from 660 to 900Mhz+!! and the 7900 does (albeit I wouldnt want to keep it there indefinatly without some good ramsinks). I ONLY got my 7900GT because at the time it was definatly the "Best Bang for Buck" I paid about £12 ($20) more than I would have for an x1800GTO!

Lastly, people are talking about the unlocking potential of the 1800GTO, why bother? for £12 more as I said I got the 7900GT with 24PP so there aint nothing to unlock!......job done.

Check this out man: Every now and then ATI drivers get enhanced, specially performance. Once there was the Advanced AA modes for all Direct X9 ATI cards that got enabled, another time they got openGL games like DOOM3 to get much improved performance on X1x00 cards, then they added smooth vision, hydravision, blabla.... Every month they fix issues with games that Nvidia takes months to fix, sometimes never fixed. Nvidia cards for a LONG time had the shimmering problem. For 2 years Nvidia cards can not DO HDR and AA modes at once, and they don't care to resolve. Nvidia users don't have the support that ATI users have, period!

Don't get me wrong, I once had an Nvidia card: Geforce 200MX.... Was good, then I switched to Radeon 8500 instead of the more expensive Geforce 3. Since then, I can tell you ATI drivers have got extreme makeover.

 

[Azn Tr14dZ]

^True. What I never get is the most expensive graphics card. I always go for mid-range, save some money. And I upgrade when I need to. If there's something new out, but my graphics card plays all of my games fine (30+ FPS) then I don't have a need to upgrade. I only upgrade when I need it. Don't get upgrade your graphics card because there's something newer, upgrade your graphics card when you feel like you need more performance.

 

[zekrahminator]

Alright guys, I take back what I said about ATI drivers being extreme hogs. I suppose I should just delete AOL from my XP partition, see how long it takes until my parents notice . I just got mad that I was using 300MB RAM on system startup.

 

[strick94u]

ATI since rage pro 128 though my laptop is nvidia desk top is a 800 aiw my 3rd all in wonder
All have been purchased on a whem thisone becuase I was not pleased with the x1600 agp
which I still think is a ripoff. but knowing 40 bucks more would have gotin me a 7800gs agp with sm3.0 I could not be watching chaplle show while typing this post, a mans gotta have his prioritys

 

[zekrahminator]

You certainly have good priorities! I personally would have gotten a 7800GS AGP, saved up a bit more, and then bought a TV tuner (or traded some parts in my rig for a TV tuner.).

 

[POGE]

X1900xtx Before that I was on a 5200.

 

[ktr]

voodoo...j/k....ati

but voodoo for my old skool gaming rig.

 

[Azn Tr14dZ]

You certainly have good priorities! I personally would have gotten a 7800GS AGP, saved up a bit more, and then bought a TV tuner (or traded some parts in my rig for a TV tuner.).

I was gonna get an AIW card, but I just went with a normal X800XL. And I have a Conexannt TV Tuner/Capture Card, and the ATI HDTV Wonder.

 

[bim27142]

ur at an ati site so of course ur gonna see lots of ati cards

wth?! that's why there are a lot of ati users here..... heck i just realized that?! i was able to observe before bu ti just thought it was just coincidence...

 

[drade]

Nvida FTW!

 

[Azn Tr14dZ]

NEVER! But I will go nVidia later on though for DX10 SLI.

 

[drade]

NEVER! But I will go nVidia later on though for DX10 SLI.

Nvidia FTW!!

 

[wazzledoozle]

I have a 9800XT and a 6800. My next card will probably be a X1800GTO

 

[Xwz]

9550SE

Well . . . . . . . .my graphics card is an ATi Radeon 9550SE.Overcloked of course.