Which card will last longer?

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pk09

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Between the 7900gtx and the x1900xtx which one will keep it's quality and performance longer into the future? Also, which is a better deal?
 
Where everyone has been raving about the 7900 GTX reviews over the ATI model lately I'm starting to hear a large number of complaints about the same model card. But that could easily be a user's not a manufacturer's problem when drivers are not put in correctly or from some other cause such as a driver conflict. Plus many try screaming out their card to OC without taking some careful steps advised often in OCing forums. ATI models always seem to last as long as NVidia driven models here.
 
Personally I would like to try a pair of Radeons for a Crossfire setup. I just haven't found a board that suits me yet. So I'm stuck with an SLI model here while running an MSI Radeon X1300 Pro.
 
2 7900gtx will outperform the 2 x1900xtx as read in the maximum pc
supercharge ur gfx article reveiws all of atis big cards and nvidias and they put them in direct competition ati outperformed in single card with these 2 but in 2 card config nvidia blew ati away with up to 40 fps diference in fear 15 in quake 4
 
Fear and Quake are only two games however. pk09 is asking which one will hold it's value down the road not just for the immediate based on only a few gaming reviews. Lately the volume of complaints about the 7800 series cards has been heard while those with ATI models have seen fewer problems. I've had excellent results with ATI model cards making me look at Crossfire over SLI considerations if I ever decide on running a dual card setup.
 
i always tend to lean more towards ATI cards as they update their drivers more often than Nvidia and updated drivers are always a plus
 
When running the Steam:Source gaming engine you will be constantly notified as soon as an update is available. That can be an annoyance at times when you just recently grabbed an update and then you still have to wait for Steam to update again. ATI did have a Control Panel as a substitute for the Catalyst Control Center with the last seeing that being the 5.11 version. That was good when there were any problems seen running the catalyst. Here the catalyst has never been an actual problem.
 
well considering the omega drivers are just heavily modded catalyst drivers do they still cause issues with the newer cards like what im hearing with original catalysts? i tend to think no but i wanna make sure
 
another thing to look at is find out this about as many upcomiing games as u can if it is based o na nvidia engine or ati engine if more are ati go ati if more are nvidia go nvidia and consider what games u would play aswell
 
The games that are coming out are geared for both ATI and NVidia. Some like Steam:Source will prompt you when a newer Catalyst or NVidia update becomes available while the game itself is updating. So far other then the prompting there ATI models cards have run whatever came tried without seeing any problems. While the present MSI card is a PCI-E type with ATI drivers and Catalyst the older AGP model MSI card was NVidia driven and still saw the same results on the same game. The performance should be better now with the 16x over 8x. The ATI preferred most here is the vpu recovey that sees a desktop return rather then the freezes seen with the NVidia cards previously used.
 
I personally love the Omega driver set, the catalyst control center is just too blocky and its feature set isnt too "featurefull".
the omega drivers use ATi Tray Tools as its control center, this can be downloaded and used with the normal ATi drivers but I also find that the Omega drivers are more stable and produce less artifacts with my overclocked gfx card, I dunno why but it just seems that it does. There really isnt an FPS diff between Omega and ATi drivers but I find the feature set of the ATi Tray Tools a HUGE improvment over the Catalyst Control Center. The ATI Tral Tools software has pretty much everything hardware(mainly graphics) related roolled into one.
You can monitor temps, overclock, adjust contrast/coloring, rotate your screen image, use hotkeys for things, show FPS in game (much like FRAPS), record a screenshot or audio (no video support yet), activate game profiles, tweak internal DirectX/OpenGL settings, enable refresh rate lock, etc... also, i found a really nice thing about it, i could hit alt+tab to minimize a game and enable/disable or change any feature like antialiasing or Anistropic filtering on-the-fly and go back into the game and it will be changed.

I'm relating the Omega drivers with ATi since one, i use an Ati card, and two the Omega driver set was originally designed on ATi drivers and later the Omega guy modified nVidia drivers too.

Though as for the cards themselves, it really depends on personal preference and the games you play since some are geared to play better on ati or nVidia. You cna see these games that say "Plays best on nVidia cards"(sometimes it will say "nVidia, the way its meant to be played") or some say "Plays best on ATi cards" A good example is that HL2 plays better on ATi cards. I cant think of an nVidia game off the top of my head but I know there are games that play better on nVidia, i think Doom 3 plays better on nVidia. Just do a little research
 
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I haven't quite tried the Omega version for ATI as of this time to see if that will make a difference on the PCI-E model card now being used.Besides a few other things the description you are giving sounds alot like the Control Panel substitute for the Catalyst. I preferred the CP over the Catalyst for being less cluttered. But before removing the ATI originals to rush into Omega HL2 still has to be reinstalled and run on the newer hardware here.
 
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