nVidia boy here :)
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nVidia boy here :)
Whoever has the best card(s), at the moment i feel that this is ATI due to them taking less of a perfromance hit when enabling AA and such things. I dont have any problem with nvidia though :)
I thought you meant who makes the best versions of each card for each company eg. sapphire, gainward, leadtek, hercules.
Always used to be Nvidia, but when I came to get my current card ATI were better at the time, so I went with them, and very happy I am to :)
Whoever has the best price: performace ratio for he amount i can afford :)
At the moment, its nVidia for me. FX5900, flashed to a FX5950 Ultra, getting around 6k in 3d mark. Cant moan for £130.
However if ATi was to offer me a faster card at a cheap price id have no probelm with taking it, other than it would suck for linux gaming :(
Linux sucks generally for anything but servers....
I think ATI cards are made to a better quality, Im put off of nvidia cards by storys about gainward, and also why have most of nvidias manufacturers gone to ATI now? Nvidia cards have a better layout though, which would have been nice when I was making the gfx waterblock.
I wil be staying with ATI cards anyway because the mounting holes are different on nvidia cards, and wont fit my wb.
I dont see nvidias next card as anything new, just a speed bump. Both nvidias and ATI cards are mainly just updated to support the latest dx9 so they will be mostly the same as there old cards but nvidias with drivers allowing them to exploit dx9 shaders better (to give more virtual pipelines). I expect ATI will follow with the same driver improvements/virtual pipelines.
In the past, I prefered nVidia, but when the Geforce FX came out, I switched to ATI. Not a huge fan of either, just buy whatever does the best for the money at the time.
ATI for me, since i brought my 9100, although it was not the fastest card out when i brought it it was quite high up and even a year later it is still running the games i want to play fine, i have been very impressed with it, and will buy ATI again when i upgrade.
I'm on my second ATI now after using nVidia cards since the TNT2, the ATI is quieter, smaller and most importantly was cheap and very powerful (and it o/c's on air like a mofo) :D
ATI
for some reason ive always had nvidia ( and still do) seing as im runnin onboard gf4 now
but i prfer ATI, its just they dont do many onboard gfxs, or the like, so im still with this useless gf4 mx
i once had a rad 9000 and it wasnt far off my ti4800, which cost quite a bit more, a lot better performance, and it looked cool :D
Currently ATI for me; I use a Sapphire Radeon 9700np, and that's VERY nice. Prior to that I used nVidia cards.
Whatever I can do a deal on - running a 9700 pro, waiting on a 64mb 9500 to arrive (daveham deal) but got a 4200ti, tnt2, mx400, 9200se, 9100 and 2 msi 5200's arriving tomorrow. At the end of the day it's a balance of price -v- performance and it doesn't matter who designed it.