Nvidia or ATI

[dfphetteplace]

I love my Nvidia. It has not failed me yet with anything. Personally I have nothing against ATI, but since I've never used anything from them and I love everything I've ever used from Nvidia, I'm sticking with them. My video card is awesome and there is not a game on the market that it cannot play. My only argument with it is it doesn't have an HDMI output, but that is just because when I got mine that wasn't being installed on video cards yet.

 

[Griffolion]

Also all you people who predicted a flame war, surprisingly you are wrong. Its turned in to a friendly and respectful conversation about graphics cards. Is it opposite day or something?

Haha i agree, this is surprisingly nice .

For any of you itching for a flame war, hop over to that thread on this years E3 where a couple of Nintendo fanboys are gushing on the 3DS and slating everything else.

NVidia all the way, because they at least fucking support their cards after they put them out.
For years both my laptops had one set of video drivers, because those bastards never updated them EVER. It was version 1.0 and that gave me a LOT of problems doing a lot of things.

I wound up with 3rd party drivers which worked pretty good but still wasn't ATI supporting their shit.

From 2 laptops experience I came to hate ATI, I dunno if they changed their ways but NVidia updates drivers all the time so I hardly have a reason to go back to ATI.

Both companies have trouble with drivers, the latest 259 series drivers for the GTX-4xx series are giving many users black screens. Not to mention NVidia's driver update model is random and not regular like ATI's.

Not sure what experience you had there with your laptops but its pretty much the opposite of what i get with my 5970.

 

[Kouen]

NVidia all the way, because they at least fucking support their cards after they put them out.
For years both my laptops had one set of video drivers, because those bastards never updated them EVER. It was version 1.0 and that gave me a LOT of problems doing a lot of things.

I wound up with 3rd party drivers which worked pretty good but still wasn't ATI supporting their shit.

From 2 laptops experience I came to hate ATI, I dunno if they changed their ways but NVidia updates drivers all the time so I hardly have a reason to go back to ATI.

Lol I was given a laptop and I think the Geforce 7000m Fried itself... so i cant go along with your statement especially when not that long ago Nvidia released a dangerous Card destroying driver (Fan control bug making it stop and roast the card on some blizzard games)

 

[Master_Corruptor]

I used to hagn with nVidia but after they started rebranding old products like new and released 5 cards every 3 month then i thought... F**** them.
Now i'm ATI because of the power to price ratio...

 

[The Spectator]

Nvidia. That's probably what I'm going to buy next. Since this ATI card I have had overheat like.. Twice.

 

[ViolentlyHappy91]

I used to use nVidia, but after a string of very very poor performing cards (6600, 6800GT, 7600GS, 8500GT, 8800GT, 9600GT) which all randomly packed it in and died, I switched to my first ATI card since my old Radeon 9800, which i'm quite happy with. The 4850 is still a very high performance card, even being 2 years old. I know I won't have to upgrade any time soon, and if I do need to, I know someone who has a backup 4850 that I can use for CrossFireX, so, I'll just get that.

 

[midget_roxx]

Both have been good to me :/.

Had a ATI x800 XT, which was very nice and could run games ahead of its time, but my new GTS 250 is great and I'm running BC2 medium graphics without a single problem (around 40fps). So I'm going with Nvidia

 

[rex922]

Nvidia
But both are good anyway
i just have an odd preference for nvidia

 

[JRCB]

My card is an Nvidia GTX 260 Maxcore 55 Overclocked (from BFG). It runs very well, and only cost me $200.

I have little experience with ATI cards for computers.

 

[Aesthetical Quietus]

ATi have horried drives. HORRID. But other than that, I quite like them. However, I can't state on those two cards, because I haven't looked at them before. Normally I go for whatever is more powerful, which has been ATi lately. [Although I have heard stories that they are limiting their current cards until the next nVidia card comes out so that they can suddenly match it with an existing card. -That story could possibly be out of date if it was true by now, as I say, not keeping in the loop, haven't got any money].

I own both an 8800GT [nVidia] and an 4800 [ATi]. They are both great cards, the ATi is a nicer card [Shape/Size/Power usage], but ATi's drivers are horrible.

 

[Griffolion]

ATi have horried drives. HORRID. But other than that, I quite like them. However, I can't state on those two cards, because I haven't looked at them before. Normally I go for whatever is more powerful, which has been ATi lately. [Although I have heard stories that they are limiting their current cards until the next nVidia card comes out so that they can suddenly match it with an existing card. -That story could possibly be out of date if it was true by now, as I say, not keeping in the loop, haven't got any money].

I own both an 8800GT [nVidia] and an 4800 [ATi]. They are both great cards, the ATi is a nicer card [Shape/Size/Power usage], but ATi's drivers are horrible.

As stated before, both companies have driver problems.

Admittedly, Catalyst 10.5 isn't too good at the moment but then again the new 259 series drivers from NV are causing black screens for some users so, what you gonna do in the end?

 

[Ph33nix]

ATI has better prices some times

 

[ThorUK]

let's see i had a 420, then a 440 then a 5600 then an 8600GTS and now a 9400GT. All nVidia, chiefly because i figured their naming theme out. Now, they've gone and changed it so, honestly, I don't know. My nVidia cards haven't really failed of their own (once the PSU blew one up though), and they work well enough, though 4x the shaders and 2x the VRAM would be nice...

 

[Liberaliter]

Needs a poll, but ATI. Obviously.