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Old 11-16-2004, 06:39 PM   #11 (permalink)
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i just got my new card today
HIS excalibur x800xt iceqII 256mb platinum edition
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Old 11-16-2004, 07:19 PM   #12 (permalink)
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i just got my new card today
HIS excalibur x800xt iceqII 256mb platinum edition
Very nice :-).. you fire up any games yet? I've got half life 2 on the way :-) should be here in a couple of hours, my fiance bought it for me :-).
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Old 11-16-2004, 07:32 PM   #13 (permalink)
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I have heard that ATI has a problem with drivers, and getting updated drivers... is that true? It seems to scare alot of people away from buying an ATI card, none the less my preference is NVIDIA
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Old 11-16-2004, 09:07 PM   #14 (permalink)
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I have heard that ATI has a problem with drivers, and getting updated drivers... is that true? It seems to scare alot of people away from buying an ATI card, none the less my preference is NVIDIA
FALSE... They come out with new drivers every month just about.. that's alot more then Nvidia. Also ATi's drivers are fairly solid.
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Old 11-16-2004, 11:00 PM   #15 (permalink)
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I haven't had any problems with ATI drivers. The video from the computer seems pretty stable and I have never had any problems.
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hi BLue
nah aint tested new card yet need a couple more parts for my new comp
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Old 11-17-2004, 01:45 AM   #17 (permalink)
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FALSE... They come out with new drivers every month just about.. that's alot more then Nvidia. Also ATi's drivers are fairly solid.
1. Fairly solid is good enough for most people but not enough for everyone (take for instance the Doom3 problem on ATI cards in the transition from AlphaLab3 to AlphaLabs4)
2. Dont forget Windows isnt the only OS.
3. I dont think nVidia needs to come out with monthly drivers.........
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1. Fairly solid is good enough for most people but not enough for everyone (take for instance the Doom3 problem on ATI cards in the transition from AlphaLab3 to AlphaLabs4)
True I suppose but i've never had problems in the past and what was wrong with the transition from alphalab3 to alphalabs4? It played equaly crappy on my last computer with no really noticable difference anywhere.. LOL

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. I dont think nVidia needs to come out with monthly drivers.........
I agree.
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True I suppose but i've never had problems in the past and what was wrong with the transition from alphalab3 to alphalabs4? It played equaly crappy on my last computer with no really noticable difference anywhere.. LOL
I myself never had problems there myself (9800XT v4.9) but my friends 9800Pro/9000/9550 v4.8 were experiencing whitescreen+mass speckling as Alphalabs4 loaded .... could replicate on my system when i poped back to v4.8 ... this for sure is not to say nVidia is without flaws (and in all honesty, nvidia was the more troublesome of the pair during the beta phase of D3) ... but generally there are fewer complications

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but my friends 9800Pro/9000/9550 v4.8 were experiencing whitescreen+mass speckling as Alphalabs4 loaded ....
:-) that is strange but I now seem to remember reading somthing on this.. I was at the time using a Radeon 9600 Pro from saphire and never had the problem myself.
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