Graphics cards

[WickedDeus]

Originally posted by Delirare
oh i do my research, and i used to be an ati fanboi. had the first release of the first radeon 64, had a radeon 7500, and a radeon 8500. All had very lackluster drivers, and were in a word, shit. I kept thinking the drivers will mature since its good hardware, and itll all come around and they'll be good cards. But the drivers never came around. They still arent here. Go play a variaty of games and you'll see what i mean. Half the games you play with a radeon need massive amounts of tweaking to run properly. Its ridiculous. The late Geforces and now the FX's dont have any of these issues, the only stuff to complain about with the nvidia drivers is their nview stuff, and i personally have never had a problem with that. So while i sit here happily with my ti4400 and i watch my neighbor struggling along with his radeon 9500 ill sit back and remember i told him not to buy that pile of shit.

And maybe you need to go read the hardware sites more often, not ones that are paid off by the companies either. You'll see that some benchmarks like the 3dmark series favor the Radeons heavily because ATi focused on optimizing their drivers for the benchmarks instead of focusing on making their drivers better with performance and compatibility. Ati has a history of doing this to. Its like cheating on a test. Pathetic. Mobo manufacters do the same shit, they'll up their default fsb speed by a few mhz so it outperforms others in benchmarks so they get a higher rating. ATi is better then they were, but I still see countless problems with them, maybe in another generation or two they'll become satisfactory.

Please link us with some "recent" examples. Ati makes the best card out...Nvidia is lagging behind. Next thing you'll tell us is that the AMD 3000+ beats the PIV 3.06 w/HT. Yes, agrees this should be in tech forum.