Nvidia or ATI

fiammanera · 02-21-2007, 01:30 AM

I have had very bad experience with NVIDIA. And i've had a lot of good xPERIENCE with Ati.

priteshvarsani · 02-21-2007, 05:20 PM

i choose graphics cards on their specs, so dont mind whether it is a on board graphics card made by a random company from the middle of some nowhere with 1gb graphics ram,800Mhz front side bus with hdmi and dvi outs or a brand new nvidia with 1gb ram, hdmi and dvi, 800Mhz speed, as they are both the same if you think about it

elitehacker · 03-01-2007, 12:32 AM

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Originally Posted by priteshvarsani

i choose graphics cards on their specs, so dont mind whether it is a on board graphics card made by a random company from the middle of some nowhere with 1gb graphics ram,800Mhz front side bus with hdmi and dvi outs or a brand new nvidia with 1gb ram, hdmi and dvi, 800Mhz speed, as they are both the same if you think about it

Same here, specs and price are the way to go for me, I'm not going to be a loyal nvidia fan if their cards are not up to scratch. The current ATi line up is very disappointing at the moment. I was tossing between a 7900GT and a X1950 pro a few months back. I opted for the 7900GT purely because it was around the same price as the ATi card and it outperforms it in every aspect. Futhermore, I have generally found that nvidia cards have a better overclocking head room at least as far as the X1950pro and the 7900GT are concerned anyway. I think the reason for that is the core used in the X1950 Pro is the end of the line and the G71 core used in the 7900GT are also used in the 7900GTX models which are clocked 100Mhz higher then their GT younger brother. At the moment I think nvidia is the best video card company to go with.

greg73654 · 03-03-2007, 01:02 AM

Well, my favs tend to be ATI, but Nvidia has a lot going for it too, the only thing that makes me choose ATI over Nvidia is the fact that Nvidia's have a LOT of heating problems...

NeedComputerFast · 03-03-2007, 09:26 PM

i think nvidia would be the choice if you really need a video card fast, however, if you wait, I hear the next gen ATI cards (coming out very soon) are monsters and out bench current Nvidia cards by a very noticeable margin. So iif you need card soon get the Nvidia, but if you wait, the good things will come to the patient with ATI.

elitehacker · 03-04-2007, 01:21 AM

The R600 looks to be really good, but that is to be expected coming out 5 months after the 8800. Regarding that heating problem with nvidia, I don't know where Greg73654 is coming from, take a look at two competing cards from both companies, the X1950 pro and the 7900GT. No matter which manufacturer you look at the X1950 pro has a massive cooling solution 99% of the time its double slots, while the 7900GT has a puny heatsink and fan. The fact that ATi needs such an extravagant cooling solution shows that it generates more heat then the nvidia, my graphics core is 45 degree Celsius at idle and a maximum of 90 when underload, but that is due to me massively overclocking it and using stock cooling, I have changed to an aftermarket one now.

zkiller · 03-04-2007, 03:06 AM

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Originally Posted by greg73654

Well, my favs tend to be ATI, but Nvidia has a lot going for it too, the only thing that makes me choose ATI over Nvidia is the fact that Nvidia's have a LOT of heating problems...

i have had several nvidia cards, all of which used the stock single slot fans and have yet to run into any such problems. i have run and overclocked gforce 2 mx 400, 6600gt. 7600gs and 7800gt in my system with no problems. *shrug*

greg73654 · 03-06-2007, 10:28 PM

Well, if you can touch it in less than 5 seconds after the computer with the card in it shutdown and not get fried, than we'll talk about how cool Nvidia is... (which is exactely what happened with a previous Nvidia card I had when I was replacing it with a cooler ATI card...)

heyman421 · 03-06-2007, 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by greg73654

Well, if you can touch it in less than 5 seconds after the computer with the card in it shutdown and not get fried, than we'll talk about how cool Nvidia is... (which is exactely what happened with a previous Nvidia card I had when I was replacing it with a cooler ATI card...)

ya, i choose a card based on whether or not i can touch it after i turn it off.

you are a computer god.

skidude · 03-06-2007, 11:04 PM

Still ATI..... they make solid cards and I've never had one quit out on me. Even though the 8800 blows away the X1950XTX I still enjoy working with ATI.

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02-21-2007, 01:30 AM	#551 (permalink)
fiammanera Bronze Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 52	Ati All The Way I have had very bad experience with NVIDIA. And i've had a lot of good xPERIENCE with Ati.

02-21-2007, 05:20 PM	#552 (permalink)
priteshvarsani Bronze Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 37	Not much difference i choose graphics cards on their specs, so dont mind whether it is a on board graphics card made by a random company from the middle of some nowhere with 1gb graphics ram,800Mhz front side bus with hdmi and dvi outs or a brand new nvidia with 1gb ram, hdmi and dvi, 800Mhz speed, as they are both the same if you think about it __________________ I have loads of computers\servers, but heres my main pc : 8GB DDR2 RAM 2x 32GB western digital Raptors in Raid 0 (I dont need space on my PC as i have a 10 terabyte file server) 2 x Intel Xeons @3.00Ghz Random Intel motherboard from an HP Precision workstation... Nvidia Quadro FX 3400 2 19inch Samsung syncmasters SilverStone SST-TJ03 Case Dual booting Vista x64 and Ubuntu 7.04

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03-03-2007, 01:02 AM	#554 (permalink)
greg73654 New Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 12	Well, my favs tend to be ATI, but Nvidia has a lot going for it too, the only thing that makes me choose ATI over Nvidia is the fact that Nvidia's have a LOT of heating problems...

03-03-2007, 09:26 PM	#555 (permalink)
NeedComputerFast Silver Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 116	i think nvidia would be the choice if you really need a video card fast, however, if you wait, I hear the next gen ATI cards (coming out very soon) are monsters and out bench current Nvidia cards by a very noticeable margin. So iif you need card soon get the Nvidia, but if you wait, the good things will come to the patient with ATI.

03-04-2007, 01:21 AM	#556 (permalink)
elitehacker Diamond Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Sydney, Australia Age: 19 Posts: 2,399	The R600 looks to be really good, but that is to be expected coming out 5 months after the 8800. Regarding that heating problem with nvidia, I don't know where Greg73654 is coming from, take a look at two competing cards from both companies, the X1950 pro and the 7900GT. No matter which manufacturer you look at the X1950 pro has a massive cooling solution 99% of the time its double slots, while the 7900GT has a puny heatsink and fan. The fact that ATi needs such an extravagant cooling solution shows that it generates more heat then the nvidia, my graphics core is 45 degree Celsius at idle and a maximum of 90 when underload, but that is due to me massively overclocking it and using stock cooling, I have changed to an aftermarket one now.

03-06-2007, 10:28 PM	#558 (permalink)
greg73654 New Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 12	Well, if you can touch it in less than 5 seconds after the computer with the card in it shutdown and not get fried, than we'll talk about how cool Nvidia is... (which is exactely what happened with a previous Nvidia card I had when I was replacing it with a cooler ATI card...)