ATI vs. nVIDIA gfx cards - Page 3

powdahound · 2003-03-28, 06:27 PM

PR24 I feel the same way. I've always been an nVidia guy too. People have to realize that the FX took longer for GOOD REASONS. They spent more time working on the .13 micron technology and many other things. They just got rushed at the end because ATI was releasing the 9700.

Zatrais: We can't really argue about drivers because ATI paid 3dmark for a 'subscription' before the software even came out so that they could tweak their cards to perform well in it. nVidia used to do that, but they didn't this time around.

And to those of you joking about nvidia dying like 3dfx: I hope you're not happy about that... Competition is what keeps the market going and the prices low. Besides, nvidia makes more than GPUs. This isn't their only source of income.

Personally I'm waiting for the next nvidia card, or maybe I'll end up getting an FX. We'll see.

PR24 · 2003-03-28, 06:30 PM

I would LOVE to stay with nVIDIA if 2 things happen.

1. They have to quite down that heatsink it is WAY too load

2. They get a card out that makes them jump to the head of the pack again.

Zatrais · 2003-03-28, 06:32 PM

I'm not refering to tweaking things for a program or a game. I'm talking about mesing whit the drivers to force your card to run in a certain way.

For instance, nvidia did force the FX to run at 16fp precition and thats below the needed 24 for a DX9 card... Kinda sucks to pay $399 for a card that does not use the specs that you've payed for.

WHQL drivers make sure that the drivers are not tweaked "illegaly" to force cards to run games at settings thats different from what you think your playing whit...

Don't know bout the rest of you but i prefer to get what i pay for and play the games at my settings, not something i'm forced to cause of drivers.

PR24 · 2003-03-28, 07:23 PM

Weee I got my score up another 80 points by increasing the Graphics Aperture size from 64mb to 128mb

Hamma have a contest that has the winner getting a prize of a 9700pro.

powdahound · 2003-03-28, 07:44 PM

Originally posted by PR24
Hamma have a contest that has the winner getting a prize of a 9700pro.

Because we just have tons of $$$ floating around to throw contests like that.

In the future I see things like that happening, but not right now.

Sputty · 2003-03-28, 07:45 PM

ATi has too much new stuff coming out. Heh, I think that ATi is going to control the market for a year or so.

PR24 · 2003-03-28, 10:11 PM

Originally posted by powdahound
Because we just have tons of $$$ floating around to throw contests like that. In the future I see things like that happening, but not right now.

Well depending on the size of the community those companies will donate things like that once in awhile.

JonnyK · 2003-03-28, 10:16 PM

in 3dmark03 i had 496 with my gf3 ti 200, after i got my radeon 9500 128mb it went up to 2980

PR24 · 2003-03-28, 10:18 PM

Originally posted by JonnyK
in 3dmark03 i had 496 with my gf3 ti 200, after i got my radeon 9500 128mb it went up to 2980

ti4600 is a good card but I am greedy and want my PC to go faster ahahahaaha FASTER