Geforce Vs ATI's

[Fenix16]

Originally Posted by Bleach

He has 2gb drr2 800mhz ram and a pd 935 3.0 series and has 720 gb sata hhd and windows vista?

And Im guessing your friend hasn't increased the max paging memory in vista. Sad sad thing.

[Ghostrider]

Originally Posted by dunehunter

T[...]and the later was underclocked (if that's possible)

Its possible to do so.


-Ghost

[[R-MOD]dunehunter]

Great, gotta find out how then. I'm having some overheating issues, and since I'm going to get a new rig soon, I'm not going to start buying new fans or stuff for this piece of ****.

[[R-DEV]Rhino]

I use to be a ATI fan but after not long ago getting my new ATI Sapphire Radeon x1950pro I aint that impressed. The only thing I was impressed by was its price and its power for the price (only cost me £100) and for £100 it is a really, really good buy compared to what you would get if you spent that much money on a nvidia card.

The main bit where ATI is lacking these days is with the drivers, nvidia do seem to have better drivers. Thou if you are building a "budget system", I would recommend going for an ATI card, if not, nvidia as they do seem to make the better cards these days

[Bleach]

Thanks Rhino, yea I'm planning to make the best system for around 1500-2000 newzealand. Nividia it is then =]

[unrealalex]

There's no such thing as a 7900 xtx lol....

[[R-DEV]Undies]

I have used both and as a general observation ATI have always seemed to have better picture quality in everything, and Nvidia seem to rely on brute force and a bit more grunt.

[ALPHA-WOLF]

Ati or Nvidia

Hmmmmmmmm

Used both myself, at the moment though its Ati

Used to be an Nvidia fan then Ati fan, both have fucked up on me

It really depends what motherboard, screen etc you're using

And yes, how much you want to fork out for one...

sooooo...

Ati or Nvidia? (research and make it fit your specs/needs)

[Bleach]

Well im getting this motherboard in the next 2 days its not that great but it should play games fine. Nividia go best with this motherboard it has sli so ill think ill sli, an get a sli bridge and a 7900 XFX

M2N-E SLI
BRAND NEW

- AMD Live!? Ready
- Support AMD Socket AM2 CPU
- NVIDIA nForce 500 SLI Technology
- Dual channel DDR2 800
- IEEE 1394a
- ASUS Q-Connector

CPU Support AMD Socket AM2 Athlon 64 X2 / Athlon 64 FX / Athlon 64/ Sempron
AMD Cool 'n' Quiet? Technology
AMD64 architecture enables simultaneous 32-bit and 64-bit computing
AMD Live!? Ready
Chipset NVIDIA nForce 500 SLI? MCP
Front Side Bus 2000 / 1600 MT/s
Memory Dual channel memory architecture
4 x DIMM, max. 8GB, DDR2-800/667/533, ECC and non-ECC, un-buffered memory

Expansion Slots 2 x PCI Express x16 slot with NVIDIA SLI? technology support, at x8, x8 speed
2 x PCI Express x1
2 x PCI 2.2

Scalable Link Interface (SLI?) Support two identical NVIDIA SLI-Ready graphics cards (both at x8 mode)
ASUS two-slot thermal design

http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2& ; ;model=1419&l1=3&l2=101&l3=370
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Processor AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core

Model 4000+

Operating Mode 32/64
Stepping G1

Frequency 2100Mhz
HT Speed 2000
L1 Cache 128KB x2
L2 Cache 512KB x2
3 Year Limited Warranty
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Transcend JetRam 240pin DDR2-667 1GB DIMM - 128Mx64 CL5
(128Mx64)
(64M x 8 DDR2 667 5-5-5
Desktop memory
Comes with lifetime warranty with Transcend
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[JohnnyPissoff]

Bleach, what blows my mind are two statements you made. The first from your original post:

i have just recently had a ATI sapphire x1650 512 agp and i was very happy with it, it could play any game you could chuck at it

....and this one from your latest post:

Well im getting this motherboard in the next 2 days its not that great but it should play games fine

Man if you could read between your own lines you'd probably hold up and wait for the DX10.1 cards to arrive and the dust to settle on future gaming then take the plunge.