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ati 9800xt or navida 5950 ulta ??
P4 2.6 , 1 gig ram, 200 gig hd, both about the same cost, play c&c Generals and games like that
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I'm running the Nvidia 5950ultra with a 64-bit AMD FX-51... fast setup...
but I know for a fact my setup would be faster if I had bought the ATI 9800XT card instead. I chose the Nvidia because it is said to be a quieter card. They are very close but you can go to http://www.futuremark.com and search the projects and see with same cpu and changing out those two cards, that people with the ATI card scored around 1500 points higher. I've also seen tons of comparisons/benchmarks all over the net supporting this. Sad because I've been using Nvidia for a long time now since my first Riva TNT card... but yeah I chose Nvidia again... stupid loyalty combined with the quieter solution because I was trying to build a machine that could perform but be quiet. If you don't care about fans being a bit louder, get the ATI. I also hear the anti-aliasing on the ATI card is much higher quality/more advanced. AND the ATI is better equipped to handle the very newest games like Halo and the coming Half-Life2 and Doom 3. But who knows by then maybe Nvidia will have come out with their next gen card that leapfrogs ATI's best and I'll take a $250 loss and sell my 5950 ultra for $250 wrote in message ... P4 2.6 , 1 gig ram, 200 gig hd, both about the same cost, play c&c Generals and games like that |
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On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 21:00:07 GMT, "Scotter" wrote:
I'm running the Nvidia 5950ultra with a 64-bit AMD FX-51... fast setup... but I know for a fact my setup would be faster if I had bought the ATI 9800XT card instead. I chose the Nvidia because it is said to be a quieter card. They are very close but you can go to http://www.futuremark.com and search the projects and see with same cpu and changing out those two cards, that people with the ATI card scored around 1500 points higher. I've also seen tons of comparisons/benchmarks all over the net supporting this. Sad because I've been using Nvidia for a long time now since my first Riva TNT card... but yeah I chose Nvidia again... stupid loyalty combined with the quieter solution because I was trying to build a machine that could perform but be quiet. If you don't care about fans being a bit louder, get the ATI. I also hear the anti-aliasing on the ATI card is much higher quality/more advanced. AND the ATI is better equipped to handle the very newest games like Halo Nope. and the coming Half-Life2 Maybe. and Doom 3. Nope. OpenGL But who knows by then maybe Nvidia will have come out with their next gen card that leapfrogs ATI's best and I'll take a $250 loss and sell my 5950 ultra for $250 If I did not have a 5900 already clocking at 5900Ultra speed, I might take you up on that offer. The distant grass is always greener. I have a very large collection of both old and new games. nVidia's broad driver support is consistently much better. Take a look at the huge list of games in which the graphics were (supposedly) finally fixed on Cat 3.10. Notice the age of some of those games. Seems as if Ati took their sweet time fixing driver problems for published titles. Also, I note that some of the titles in the 3.10 fix list were subject to earlier forum suggestions by Ati personnel that the game needed to be fixed, not the Ati driver. .. No doubt Ati were distracted by the driver optimizations they were putting in place for the non-existent Half-Life 2, due to their cozy business relationship with Valve. Putting the actual customer first ? Pah !! John Lewis wrote in message ... P4 2.6 , 1 gig ram, 200 gig hd, both about the same cost, play c&c Generals and games like that |
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wrote in message ...
P4 2.6 , 1 gig ram, 200 gig hd, both about the same cost, play c&c Generals and games like that you ask on a nvidia group...mmm ah well personly I would go for the Ati 9800XT, since DX9 is coming and ati has worked that out better yet. But the 5950 Ultra is fine to! |
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ATI. The 9800 Pro or 9800 XT. With what nvidia did to me with the 5700
Ultra, I will not buy nvidia cards for a long,long time "Dark Avenger" wrote in message om... wrote in message ... P4 2.6 , 1 gig ram, 200 gig hd, both about the same cost, play c&c Generals and games like that you ask on a nvidia group...mmm ah well personly I would go for the Ati 9800XT, since DX9 is coming and ati has worked that out better yet. But the 5950 Ultra is fine to! |
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Nope. and the coming Half-Life2 Maybe. and Doom 3. Nope. OpenGL But who knows by then maybe Nvidia will have come out with their next gen card that leapfrogs ATI's best and I'll take a $250 loss and sell my 5950 ultra for $250 If I did not have a 5900 already clocking at 5900Ultra speed, I might take you up on that offer. The distant grass is always greener. I have a very large collection of both old and new games. nVidia's broad driver support is consistently much better. Take a look at the huge list of games in which the graphics were (supposedly) finally fixed on Cat 3.10. Notice the age of some of those games. Seems as if Ati took their sweet time fixing driver problems for published titles. Also, I note that some of the titles in the 3.10 fix list were subject to earlier forum suggestions by Ati personnel that the game needed to be fixed, not the Ati driver. . No doubt Ati were distracted by the driver optimizations they were putting in place for the non-existent Half-Life 2, due to their cozy business relationship with Valve. Putting the actual customer first ? Pah !! John Lewis wrote in message ... P4 2.6 , 1 gig ram, 200 gig hd, both about the same cost, play c&c Generals and games like that Well John Lewis, is it me or do you taste like envy. Come on, you have shown your disapproval for Ati enough to make me think you envy those who we're warned in time to buy an ati card while you are stuck with a FX5200 Non Ultra 64-bits memory interface. .... don't say such to be true! That would be so sad! |
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