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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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