Will you buy nVidia again?

[kempez]

"driver cheating"

I would happily buy either an ATI product or an nVidia product as both companies make stonking cards and continually strive to improve driver support

[sawyen]

I dont see Nvidia as a problem before as I've used alot of their cards in the past (7 to be exact).. Riva TNT2, Geforce 256, Geforce 2 MX, Geforce 4 Ti, Geforce FX 5600Ultra and the Geforce 6800GT..

I've only just started using Radeons with only 3 cards as a total.. 9600XT, 9800Pro and the X1800XT..

Both of them build very reliable cards in the past, tho the .NET stuff is a little suss..

But seems the dodgy G71 complementing components have left alot wanting.. I guess this happens to all companies in some part of their lifetime, nothing to see really.. they'll be fine by their next iteration im sure..

[Blackmage]

i don't see people are complaining? you buy cards that are heavily overclocked nvidia cards and when they people complain there is a reason why nvidia has a 7900GTX series if oyu want granteed speeds you buy a core capable of it.

[Goss]

I might upgrade to a nvidia DX10 gfx card just for a change, i'm using ATI's hardware at the mo, imho there aint much difference in either vendors graphics hardware, the real problem is the high price for top range. I wish ATI ,NVIDIA, AMD and INTEL would merge into one and make us some super fast hardware, especially the graphics chips and have an affordable price range. And the same could be said for game developers, lets have some cheap quality for once,lol.

[kalniel]

LOL 'merging into one' and 'affordable price range' are mutually exclusive

SGI were the undisputed kings for ages.. but no-one could afford any of their stuff

[sawyen]

hahahahahahahahahahaha... *choke*.. hahahahahahahahahahahaa

[2460boy]

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I Write in this Comic Font as that is the Type of Support I received from Nvidia and BFG. Apparently when they issued their AGP Card they failed to mention on their minumum specs that it will not support server class motherboards. That is what the BFGtech support told me. However when they tried to escalate - as I then had a card that was pretty useless to me. I had also mentioned to them that I had special ordered the card and the retailer could not take it back.

I remember reading BFG's Marketing Vice President say that he fixes situations, unfortunately when a real situation presented itself - I left a voicemail on his, Scott Herkelman's line - NO RESPONSE. Apparently Marketing does not listen to Support to ensure they have the resources to create products that the Users require. That is what an intro to Marketing University and College course tells you.

The supervisor of the company, that thru contract, provides telephone support for BFG, they are in the US and all speak English well, tried to forward information and eventually gave up on even trying. Nvidia and BFG remained silent. Apparently they did not realize the amount of AGP Customers that would purchase for systems with the AMD 761 Chipset. Mine is a Tyan S2460 with the latest Bios Flash..

For Driver Support I would have to say ATI has the best programmers or give their programmers the requirements better. I know I have switched from a Lowly Sapphire ATI Radeon 9000 w/64mb to an ATI X850xt w/256mb back to my Sapphire Radeon 9000 (with replacement fan attached by zip ties) to a new GeCube Radeon X1600 Pro w/512MB ram and the Catalyst drivers adapted exceptionally well. Sometimes I even removed cards without uninstalling the ATI drivers and they still remained stable.

ATI

Nvidia and BFG

You could check my system specs, oh yeah I have a Themaltake 550watt powersupply which handles anything, protects my system very well.

GeCube still has some answering as they did not reply to my inquiry on how to play back H.264 video without my powersupply seeing a boost in power requirements causing it to say goodnight. If anyone has any ideas on this please feel free to contact me

Cheers,

Chris

[ajones]

Never had a problem with any gfx card, nVidia/ATI or those Matrox geezers I used to use back in the old Voodoo2 days I never o/c gfx cards however, so agree with the sentiment that commercially oc'd cards are just begging for trouble.

[Grey M@a]

Will stick with nVidia due to ATi's down right poor OpenGL support/rendering. Every ATi card I've seen has been utter pants at the older OGL games :/

ive not touched nvidia for years and to be honest never will again after all there driver cheating

You need to go do some reading again to, ATi are guilty of the same thing, but who cares as 3D Mark is a load of crap, it doesn't give any indication of how real word gaming works, it just hammers out demo's and thats it. Hence why all the major review sites now use actual games to benchmark the cards

[Zak33]

It's a shame. My 6800GT was rock solid at Ultra speeds and probably a little further. nVidia messed up this time, but I'll keep the faith.

that is a very well balanced phrase, and that's because you, like thousands of other users, benefitted massively from what I'd describe as nVidia really getting it's act together and creating a new gpu, from the ground up, and the massive money/time/r&d clearly showed with that card.

It's very hard to find unhappy 6800 GT/GS owners, and that seems to have been followed by a rather sizeable chunk of unhappy 7900 owners.

I don't know the correct terminolgy for the way the 6800's were created, but it seems to have been the best planned, layed out and thought through GPU launch for a long long time.

If I owned a 6800 GS/GT/Ultra, I'd keep it.
I don't...I own a very nice ATI X800 XT PE

[scrandman]

I never o/c gfx cards however, so agree with the sentiment that commercially oc'd cards are just begging for trouble.

Sadly the same problems can also occur with cards at stock frequencies.

[kempez]

I had a 6800GT and it was an awesome card.

I'll stick with my excellent 7900GTX for now. Great card and no .NET drivers

[rae]

To be perfectly honest. I'm not really fussed what branding my graphics card is, be it ATI or Nvidia. All i need to know is that i'm safe in the knowledge that some guy has exactly the same proformance card and has payed half the price. Which is what i guess people have found with quite a few recently released nvidia products.

Although i wouldn't let this put me off. I would be inclined to research any benchmarks i can before investing. After all, i dont tend to spend £300 too lightly. Being a student and all that