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Subject: ATI or Nvidia?

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Posted by: Iggwilv

*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

Posted by: DivX
IMO AMD will make a come back, the conroe is a "next gen" processor, and AMD's current processors are not. Wait until AMD releases their next chip, currently called "4x4"

Then we will see. The Quad Core Kentsfeild (basically 2 conroe chips in one) vs AMD's "4x4" technology.


nah, 4x4 is dual dual core CPUs and 4 graphics cards.

  • 10.24.2006 12:06 PM PDT
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Eh, I stand by my case, AMD will make a comeback.

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Posted by: DivX
Eh, I stand by my case, AMD will make a comeback.


Yes they will, besides, my Athalon 64 3700+ works perfectly with whatever I have to throw at it so far, so I'm not worried.

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ATi Radeon 9250

Best card ever made


I wonder how good the 9550 is, I always noticed that the "50" cards are more powerful than the later, more expensive" cards for a little while...

  • 10.24.2006 3:42 PM PDT
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AMD's comback will be summer 2008 at the earliest IMO

  • 10.24.2006 3:45 PM PDT

I wonder if the Wolf thinks the Moon listens when he howls at it.

NVIDIA FTW!!!!1!!ONE!!

  • 10.24.2006 7:16 PM PDT

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Posted by: Iggwilv

*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

Posted by: darekster2ongame
ATi Radeon 9250

Best card ever made


I wonder how good the 9550 is, I always noticed that the "50" cards are more powerful than the later, more expensive" cards for a little while...


The 9550 is a piece of crap compared to what is out now. There is no value in it.

  • 10.24.2006 7:33 PM PDT
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Posted by: darekster2ongame
ATi Radeon 9250

Best card ever made


I wonder how good the 9550 is, I always noticed that the "50" cards are more powerful than the later, more expensive" cards for a little while...


The 9550 is a piece of crap compared to what is out now. There is no value in it.


Its the best you can get without spending an extreme amount of money. I am using a 9550 for a temp. upgrade until the DX 10 cards come out.

By the end of the month, I plan on having...

9550
Overclocked 1.49 GH mobo

I will use this until quad cores, DX 10 cards, and Vista come out.

  • 10.24.2006 7:42 PM PDT
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The last Nvidia I had sucked, not as in no power as in it crashed-often. I would be calmly writing something and suddenly the screen blacks out, I restart and my resolution is somewhere near 12x24 and I had 24 colors.


ATI

  • 10.24.2006 7:47 PM PDT
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I request a lock for this thread. Apparently, all of you missed the old one from last year. that was mad evil.

  • 10.24.2006 8:18 PM PDT

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Posted by: Iggwilv

*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

Posted by: darekster2ongame
Posted by: staticx576
Posted by: darekster2ongame
ATi Radeon 9250

Best card ever made


I wonder how good the 9550 is, I always noticed that the "50" cards are more powerful than the later, more expensive" cards for a little while...


The 9550 is a piece of crap compared to what is out now. There is no value in it.


Its the best you can get without spending an extreme amount of money. I am using a 9550 for a temp. upgrade until the DX 10 cards come out.

By the end of the month, I plan on having...

9550
Overclocked 1.49 GH mobo

I will use this until quad cores, DX 10 cards, and Vista come out.


extreme amount of money? you can get a much better card for under 100.

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PEICE OF CRAP?!?!?! My magik 9550 is no peice of crap. Intergrated is a peice of crap. 9550 is a decent, quiet, card, with good value-for-money.

  • 10.25.2006 12:24 AM PDT
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Posted by: Mouth For War
I have an Nvidia card....but out of personal preference my vote goes for ATI.

It seems that ATI has the advantage for the super highend (the 7950GX2 isn't practical...and its crap), and highend....and Nvidia controls the mid to mid/high end area. Low end is up for grabs I suppose.

Naw, you're wrong there.

nVidia has the advantage for the high-end market, as you cannot beat a 7950GX2. For the mid/high-end, ATI takes over with it's X1900-X1950Pro series. Low end goes to nVidia with the 7300.

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ATI has been around a lot longer than Nvidia. Hell, My first computer had an ATI Rage Pro. That's like 12 years old! Back when the best video card around was 64 Mb.

They're both good companies and so evenly matched performance wise that it really is a matter of personal preference.

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Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
They're both good companies and so evenly matched performance wise that it really is a matter of personal preference.

Yes, unlike the OS war. One sided much?

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Mac and Windows aren't really all that different either. It's like putting an Irishman and an Englishman next to each other, if your not Irish or English, you won't notice a difference at all. However prepare to get your ass handed to you if you ever call an Irishman an Englishman. The differences are only readily apparent if you are Irish or English, anyone else just sees two british guys. I'm using that analogy because I'm Irish and I HAVE handed people thier asses for calling me English.

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roflol

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7950GX2 benchmarks higher than any ATI card.

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Posted by: Nessy
7950GX2 benchmarks higher than any ATI card.

I'm sorry but you're wrong. You may have noticed I haven't posted for sometime but some of the discussion on the forum now just doesn't seem relevant to me. I don't care about what your skill level is at, or how good your computer system is...I came here because I didn't own an Xbox (my parents never wanted to buy me a console) and yet, when I picked up Halo PC in a store several years ago I was engaged by the riveting story, the superb graphics, and the fun and immersive gameplay. I love Bungie with what they've created, and the connection they've had with their fans. I've been saving up money lately, and once Halo 3 comes out I'm buying an Xbox 360 to play it. I don't care that I'm a PC gamer, I can be both. You may think I'm a "tool" to Microsoft for doing that, but if it means playing a game I want to play then so be it. I don't feeling like waiting another 2 or more years for it to come out on PC, and then be forced to upgrade once again. So if this is one of the last posts I make then don't be surprised. Don't worry...it's not entirely your fault.

Back on topic, I was reading a recent issue of PC World in the school library and read an interesting article that seems to contradict Nessy, I found the same article, more-or-less online: HERE

I personally have a Nvidia FX 5600XT, but I can't ignore the benchmarks. The ATI Asus EAX1900XTX clearly performed the best. But there may be other factors and specifications that make them very different. For example, I read in the article that the Nvidia 7950GX2 has 24 pipelines, while the ATI card only 16. However ATI decided to instead make their card have a record-breaking number of pixel shaders. So you decide which is better, I'm no computer expert.

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Like many are saying, it's preference. nVidia's dual SLI is still much better technology then the ATI's crossfire, but they're still going head to head. on the CPU side, Intel's core 2 duo struck down the hammer on AMD, but i know AMD's got something cooking too.

for reference, i believe xbox original had an nVidia graphics core while the 360 has an ATI. no reason why they both shouldn't be great in terms on halo game play. (by the way, nvidia's active camouflage works too, whoever said "in ATI it works")

i'm gonna vote nvidia, been an nvidia user switching from ati for quite a long time. i just liked nvidia's driver/customer support.

and let's keep it away from the flamewars, he wants opinions, not THIS CARD OWNS THAT CARD stuff.

  • 10.26.2006 12:34 PM PDT

Gaming Systems:
Intel Core i7 720QM (4 cores, 8 threads)
4Gb DDR3-1333mhz
1Gb AMD Radeon HD 4650
Windows 7 64bit

Xbox 360 w/ 20Gb HDD (2008 edition) & XBL Gold.

I have to say Nvidia, because i used to have a Radeon 7000, and i NEVER want to experiance that level of crapness EVER again. The card a i got after that was a Geforce 4, and it was generally much more stable and much much faster than ATI's current cards back then. My current card, the Geforce 6200, was very very cheap but performs brilliantly. Also, someone said something about Integrated graphics cards being worse than a Radeon 9550? Not true anymore! An Intel 945G performs better in benchmakrs than a Radeon 9550 and also supports Shader Model 2.0, which the 9550 doesn't at all. Intel's latest generation of Integrated Graphics are well worth it if all you want is to do some light gaming and work etc, since they come bundled on the motherboard for no extra cost :P

I also have to say that Intel are a gamers CPU of choice at the current time, because AMD's offers are completely rubbish in comparison. The bottom end Core 2 is actually better than 95% of AMD's chips. The mid end Core 2 (the E6600) is faster than ANY of AMD's current chips. The top end Core 2 is about 25% faster than AMD's top CPU at the moment. Intel are now miles ahead of AMD, and AMD are showing no signs of catching up soon. Intel offers the best bang-per-buck CPU's now also.

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Radeon 7000

And theres your crapiness.

  • 10.26.2006 3:43 PM PDT
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http://firingsquad.com/hardware/sapphire_radeon_toxic_x1950xt x/page5.asp

GX2 is the highest, sorry mate

and that xtx is the OC watercooled one.

[Edited on 10/26/2006]

  • 10.26.2006 3:50 PM PDT

I wonder if the Wolf thinks the Moon listens when he howls at it.

Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
Mac and Windows aren't really all that different either. It's like putting an Irishman and an Englishman next to each other, if your not Irish or English, you won't notice a difference at all. However prepare to get your ass handed to you if you ever call an Irishman an Englishman. The differences are only readily apparent if you are Irish or English, anyone else just sees two british guys. I'm using that analogy because I'm Irish and I HAVE handed people thier asses for calling me English.
yea that and you will hear the word moocke repeated many times.

  • 10.26.2006 9:46 PM PDT

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