Am 28.03.2010 21:16, * Peter Dassow:

So just buy 3 and an ATI card. What's the problem ? If your decision is
for ATI, fine. I will go with nVidia for another reason: Because I made
negative expirience with so many Catalyst driver versions I can't count.

I have several PCs here, some with ATI cards and some with Nvidia cards,
and the Catalyst drivers are generally not more troublesome than their
Nvidia pedants. I don't know with what card and what drivers you had
problems with but it is very likely that the real problem was within
something else in your hard- or software. Yes, ATI had some really awful
drivers for their Rage series of cards, but that was over a decade ago.
The unified drivers for Radeons are really good, and if that wouldn't be
the case then for sure every review of ATI gfx cards would mention how
great this card is but unless the drivers get better the card is
useless. This isn't the case. Go figure.

BTW: my latest negative experience with Nvidia drivers wasn't too long
ago when they really messed up with the 196.75, but at least none of my
Nvidia cards were damaged (others weren't that lucky, though). So no,
even in Nvidia land not everything is nice and perfect.

It usually didn't matter much if you bought ATI or Nvidia as the
differences in performance were often rather small, however at the
moment one must be really braindead to buy a Geforce GTX 470/480,
considering the high price tag and the insane amount of power it draws,
and the disappointing performance.

Ben