Author Topic: ATi or Nvidia (Read 3198 times)

Ph33r · « **on:** October 11, 2007, 08:40:56 PM »

As godson said in the 'Post your graphics topic', why does everyone choose Nvidia? Sure, it's a given that Nvidia cards are SLIGHTLY cheaper compared to ATi cards on the market.. But I have heard from a friend of mine, the Nvidia cards are a lil unstable.. His card burned out are like a year or so.. Then he got an ATi card an it lasted him like a 4 years..

Besides, ATi has stuff like AVIVO.. I'm unsure if Nvidia has a same sort of program.. Anyway, whats so great about Nvidia? The HD2900XT can rival the 8800GTX in benchmarking.. So ATi can't be that bad..

brandon6199 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 11, 2007, 09:00:43 PM »

nvidia has purevideo, kinda the same thing as avivo.

one company isnt better than the other, just the cards that make the difference

Daffy · « **Reply #2 on:** October 12, 2007, 05:20:55 AM »

There's a lot more support for nVIDIA cards in most games.
I Colin McRae Dirt the detail level in the settings goes down as you increase the resolution, stuff like that doesn't happen with nVIDIA cards.

Matbugss · « **Reply #3 on:** October 12, 2007, 05:54:09 AM »

Nvidia4ever!

GT-7 · « **Reply #4 on:** October 12, 2007, 06:04:27 AM »

In my computer there aint ATi or nVIDIA

. But theres nVIDIA card at the gas station's slot machine which is next to our school

ImPaKt · « **Reply #5 on:** October 12, 2007, 06:42:45 AM »

every ATI card i have used produces on-screen flickering or burns out, my 7800GS nVidia has lastwed me over 2 years perfectly, i'm getting an 8800 GTS soon. ATI imho suck a lot.

BoBsaget · « **Reply #6 on:** October 12, 2007, 06:48:51 AM »

My last card was an ATI x800, and now I have a 8800GTS, which you really can't compare to eachother on the level of gfx quality etc. But I did notice that when I put the settings of my ATI card on highest quality possible, it didn't reach the quality of the Nvidia, which was weird cause it should have run just as much quality but less fps.. (at least thats what I think should happen) There is a plsu to ATI cards though, and thats the software. You can clock the card with eas with provided software from ATI and ATI Tray Tools is good. But ATM I would go for an 8800 card by Nvidia cause ATI doesn't have a card which competes with the prize or quality that the Nvidia will give.

ImPaKt · « **Reply #7 on:** October 12, 2007, 06:57:56 AM »

BoB, ATI has tray tool, nVidia cards come with nTune which does the same thing, manual or auto overclocking from windows, not in BIOS

Paxton · « **Reply #8 on:** October 12, 2007, 07:23:43 AM »

I've never tried ATI actually, even if i heard good things about. I have nvidia and i'm fine with it. It works well with all tasks so why change it.

Spoofy · « **Reply #9 on:** October 12, 2007, 08:12:57 AM »

I was a die hard ATI Radeon user but nVIDIA is just so much better. Don't even hesitate, get nVIDIA

Aries · « **Reply #10 on:** October 12, 2007, 09:48:13 AM »

Whichever one brings out the better products. Same with Intel and AMD.

rekees · « **Reply #11 on:** October 12, 2007, 10:24:08 AM »

i got dual gfx cards, 8800GTS and i think a 7300 GTX or something like that cant remember

ImPaKt · « **Reply #12 on:** October 12, 2007, 07:18:45 PM »

rekees, you cant use 2 different cards in dual card mode, they have to be the same processing unit, like 2x 8800 GTS or 2x 7900 GT, an 8800 GTS and a 7300 GTX shouldn't work, if it does, it probably gets held back somewhat and cant work efficiently.

Torque · « **Reply #13 on:** October 12, 2007, 09:12:56 PM »

I have a Radeon x300.

What the hell is overclocking.

plumpegg · « **Reply #14 on:** October 12, 2007, 11:24:24 PM »

i have radeon 9600 and i play new games with no porblem... so i think ATI is good...

never had an Nvidia :/ only geforce 2 mx