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I'm now an ATI convert
Just wanted to drop the ATI newsgroup a line to say HI.
After 5 years with Nvidia cards I have made the switch to ATI, namely a Powercolor Radeon 9800pro 128meg. This card is by far the most exceptionally stable, well rounded and best performing graphics card I have ever owned. Not only is in benching far higher than the fx5900 I was playing around with originally.. notwithstanding benchmarks the real world performance is head and sholders above anything in the Nvidia camp I have used. The framerates are constant, rapid movement in 3d games is sikly smooth, and I can, for the first time, throw my old gaming res up from 1024x768 to 1280x1024 and then on top of that, throw AA and AF and all the other eye candy into the mix and still get exceptional gaming. I look at these 5900s... with their monster cooling solutions (even the single slot cooling designs are ludicrous), cores running at 84c... loud fans, huge size etc.. then I look at my simple, elegant and reasonably sized ATI card with a single fan and a modest heatsink and wonder why I waited so damn long to make the switch. The catalyst drivers were always to my mind a bit flaky... but since the release of Cat 3.X I've noticed that the drivers are rock solid and offer everything a gamer could possibly need. The drivers I'm using with the 9800pro (Cat 3.6) are rock solid. I upgraded my entire system during my Vid card upgrade.. and with the fx5900 in it I was wondering if I had faulty Ram, mobo etc coz during heavy benchmarking and burn-in I was indeed getting random crashes from time to time. With the ATI installed I have run 3dmark 2001 for 8 hours straight.. and apart from a quite warm ambient case temp after the testing, there was not a single hiccup. Looking forward to spending some more time around here over the coming months. To any others resisting the switch to ATI so frequently spouted at various sites, magazines etc... BELIEVE ME.. IT'S TRUE.. ATI OFFER A BETTER SOLUTION. Cheers, T1000 |
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"T1000" wrote in message
... Just wanted to drop the ATI newsgroup a line to say HI. After 5 years with Nvidia cards I have made the switch to ATI, namely a Powercolor Radeon 9800pro 128meg. This card is by far the most exceptionally stable, well rounded and best performing graphics card I have ever owned. I'm happy for you...now that you switched to ATI, you can drop the NVidia NG and quit cross-posting? |
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"GuitarMan" wrote in message ... "T1000" wrote in message ... Just wanted to drop the ATI newsgroup a line to say HI. After 5 years with Nvidia cards I have made the switch to ATI, namely a Powercolor Radeon 9800pro 128meg. This card is by far the most exceptionally stable, well rounded and best performing graphics card I have ever owned. I'm happy for you...now that you switched to ATI, you can drop the NVidia NG and quit cross-posting? Oooooh someone sounds a little ratty :-P |
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Go **** in your hat.
Just wanted to drop the ATI newsgroup a line to say HI. After 5 years with Nvidia cards I have made the switch to ATI, namely a Powercolor Radeon 9800pro 128meg. This card is by far the most exceptionally stable, well rounded and best performing graphics card I have ever owned. |
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I upgraded my entire system during my Vid card upgrade.. LOL!!!!!!!!! Yeah, so this is a realy 'cientific' comparison....! Man, so much word wasting and then you say this.... Free |
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" I upgraded my entire system during my Vid card upgrade.. and with the fx5900 in it I was wondering if I had faulty Ram, mobo etc coz during heavy benchmarking and burn-in I was indeed getting random crashes from time to time." "And With The FX5900 In It" I take it "IT" is the upgraded system, what the heavy benchmarking and burn-in indicates as well duh. -- -DmD- [w00t2]Proxivire Angst P.R.O.X.I.V.I.R.E.: Positronic Replicant Optimized for Xenocide and Infiltration/Vigilant Individual Responsible for Exploration "F r e e" wrote in message ... I upgraded my entire system during my Vid card upgrade.. LOL!!!!!!!!! Yeah, so this is a realy 'cientific' comparison....! Man, so much word wasting and then you say this.... Free |
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"T1000" wrote in
Just wanted to drop the ATI newsgroup a line to say HI. After 5 years with Nvidia cards I have made the switch to ATI, namely a Powercolor Radeon 9800pro 128meg. This card is by far the most exceptionally stable, well rounded and best performing graphics card I have ever owned. Hi, yes dude, I am in agreement with you. I too am coming from being a long term nVidia GPU user, and yes it certainly is an *EYE-OPENER* seeing what a 9800 can do. Somehow it made my monitor work better/clearer in 2D also :P. Still didn't test any DVD's/DivX yet but I'm sure it will rock . . Did you have a butchers at these things: ATI Developer Demos http://www.ati.com/developer/demos.html Wayne ][ |
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Hi T,
Glad you're happy. I was a Matrox fan for years but when they abandoned the 3D market I had to switch. After much research (ATI vs. nVidia) I decided on ATI. Bought a 9500 Pro and haven't looked back. Matrox has always been famous for their 2D stuff and beautiful display but I think that, at this point, ATI is at least as good and of course light years ahead of Matrox in 3D. I think I'll stick with the 9500 Pro when I build my new box this fall/winter and I'll upgrade when the ATI 10000 Pro is available ;-) -- Happy Flying, Ed F. "T1000" wrote in message ... Just wanted to drop the ATI newsgroup a line to say HI. After 5 years with Nvidia cards I have made the switch to ATI, namely a Powercolor Radeon 9800pro 128meg. This card is by far the most exceptionally stable, well rounded and best performing graphics card I have ever owned. Not only is in benching far higher than the fx5900 I was playing around with originally.. notwithstanding benchmarks the real world performance is head and sholders above anything in the Nvidia camp I have used. The framerates are constant, rapid movement in 3d games is sikly smooth, and I can, for the first time, throw my old gaming res up from 1024x768 to 1280x1024 and then on top of that, throw AA and AF and all the other eye candy into the mix and still get exceptional gaming. I look at these 5900s... with their monster cooling solutions (even the single slot cooling designs are ludicrous), cores running at 84c... loud fans, huge size etc.. then I look at my simple, elegant and reasonably sized ATI card with a single fan and a modest heatsink and wonder why I waited so damn long to make the switch. The catalyst drivers were always to my mind a bit flaky... but since the release of Cat 3.X I've noticed that the drivers are rock solid and offer everything a gamer could possibly need. The drivers I'm using with the 9800pro (Cat 3.6) are rock solid. I upgraded my entire system during my Vid card upgrade.. and with the fx5900 in it I was wondering if I had faulty Ram, mobo etc coz during heavy benchmarking and burn-in I was indeed getting random crashes from time to time. With the ATI installed I have run 3dmark 2001 for 8 hours straight.. and apart from a quite warm ambient case temp after the testing, there was not a single hiccup. Looking forward to spending some more time around here over the coming months. To any others resisting the switch to ATI so frequently spouted at various sites, magazines etc... BELIEVE ME.. IT'S TRUE.. ATI OFFER A BETTER SOLUTION. Cheers, T1000 |
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Hi, me too. I was a solid Sparkle 4mb user and I upgraded to a Rage Fury
Maxx, no more sparkles for me. -- Lester Piglet "Ed Forsythe" wrote in message ... Hi T, Glad you're happy. I was a Matrox fan for years but when they abandoned the 3D market I had to switch. After much research (ATI vs. nVidia) I decided on ATI. Bought a 9500 Pro and haven't looked back. Matrox has always been famous for their 2D stuff and beautiful display but I think that, at this point, ATI is at least as good and of course light years ahead of Matrox in 3D. I think I'll stick with the 9500 Pro when I build my new box this fall/winter and I'll upgrade when the ATI 10000 Pro is available ;-) -- Happy Flying, Ed F. "T1000" wrote in message ... Just wanted to drop the ATI newsgroup a line to say HI. After 5 years with Nvidia cards I have made the switch to ATI, namely a Powercolor Radeon 9800pro 128meg. This card is by far the most exceptionally stable, well rounded and best performing graphics card I have ever owned. Not only is in benching far higher than the fx5900 I was playing around with originally.. notwithstanding benchmarks the real world performance is head and sholders above anything in the Nvidia camp I have used. The framerates are constant, rapid movement in 3d games is sikly smooth, and I can, for the first time, throw my old gaming res up from 1024x768 to 1280x1024 and then on top of that, throw AA and AF and all the other eye candy into the mix and still get exceptional gaming. I look at these 5900s... with their monster cooling solutions (even the single slot cooling designs are ludicrous), cores running at 84c... loud fans, huge size etc.. then I look at my simple, elegant and reasonably sized ATI card with a single fan and a modest heatsink and wonder why I waited so damn long to make the switch. The catalyst drivers were always to my mind a bit flaky... but since the release of Cat 3.X I've noticed that the drivers are rock solid and offer everything a gamer could possibly need. The drivers I'm using with the 9800pro (Cat 3.6) are rock solid. I upgraded my entire system during my Vid card upgrade.. and with the fx5900 in it I was wondering if I had faulty Ram, mobo etc coz during heavy benchmarking and burn-in I was indeed getting random crashes from time to time. With the ATI installed I have run 3dmark 2001 for 8 hours straight.. and apart from a quite warm ambient case temp after the testing, there was not a single hiccup. Looking forward to spending some more time around here over the coming months. To any others resisting the switch to ATI so frequently spouted at various sites, magazines etc... BELIEVE ME.. IT'S TRUE.. ATI OFFER A BETTER SOLUTION. Cheers, T1000 |
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Woopie-it's a video card
"T1000" wrote in message ... Just wanted to drop the ATI newsgroup a line to say HI. After 5 years with Nvidia cards I have made the switch to ATI, namely a Powercolor Radeon 9800pro 128meg. This card is by far the most exceptionally stable, well rounded and best performing graphics card I have ever owned. Not only is in benching far higher than the fx5900 I was playing around with originally.. notwithstanding benchmarks the real world performance is head and sholders above anything in the Nvidia camp I have used. The framerates are constant, rapid movement in 3d games is sikly smooth, and I can, for the first time, throw my old gaming res up from 1024x768 to 1280x1024 and then on top of that, throw AA and AF and all the other eye candy into the mix and still get exceptional gaming. I look at these 5900s... with their monster cooling solutions (even the single slot cooling designs are ludicrous), cores running at 84c... loud fans, huge size etc.. then I look at my simple, elegant and reasonably sized ATI card with a single fan and a modest heatsink and wonder why I waited so damn long to make the switch. The catalyst drivers were always to my mind a bit flaky... but since the release of Cat 3.X I've noticed that the drivers are rock solid and offer everything a gamer could possibly need. The drivers I'm using with the 9800pro (Cat 3.6) are rock solid. I upgraded my entire system during my Vid card upgrade.. and with the fx5900 in it I was wondering if I had faulty Ram, mobo etc coz during heavy benchmarking and burn-in I was indeed getting random crashes from time to time. With the ATI installed I have run 3dmark 2001 for 8 hours straight.. and apart from a quite warm ambient case temp after the testing, there was not a single hiccup. Looking forward to spending some more time around here over the coming months. To any others resisting the switch to ATI so frequently spouted at various sites, magazines etc... BELIEVE ME.. IT'S TRUE.. ATI OFFER A BETTER SOLUTION. Cheers, T1000 |
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