BloatedGuppy said:Shouldn't your current card ALWAYS be the best card you ever had? People don't usually downgrade.Daystar Clarion said:My current card is a AMD 7870, best card I've ever had.
I've had both Nvidia and Radeon cards, and been equally impressed by both. I give the slightest of edges to Nvidia for their slightly better drivers.
Is there a better alternative to an Intel processor? I was just about to buy one.loc978 said:Five years ago I would have said NVIDIA, because ATI drivers were a ***** to deal with. Nowadays, NVIDIA and Intel can suck it. They overcharge damn near as badly as Apple... and OpenGL support is far more important than Windows drivers, what with Windows gaming circling the drain.
Harumph. The naming scheme for ATI cards is exactly why I've been using them for so long. I swear people would be much less intimidated by upgrading or buying computers if the cards actually had sensible names and performance values, but I guess that wouldn't be good marketing.bananafishtoday said:Voted for Radeon. Don't have a real "preference," but my last two cards (~5 years) have been ATI.
The (admittedly silly) reason I chose them was because, as someone who'd been out of the loop on what's "good" for years, I found their model numbering system really intuitive. It made it easy to judge which cards were worth learning more about. (Edit: To elaborate, if I see a mention of a specific model number, I instantly know where it sits in the hierarchy.)
Nvidia's naming scheme confused the hell out of me, so I never bothered to learn what the names actually mean.
Not really, if what you're looking for is the fastest thing available (same goes for NVIDIA)... which is really only useful for future-proofing your system at this point. If you just want to play every game on the market on high graphical settings for the next five years or so, build an AMD system at about half the price.JudgeGame said:Is there a better alternative to an Intel processor? I was just about to buy one.loc978 said:Five years ago I would have said NVIDIA, because ATI drivers were a ***** to deal with. Nowadays, NVIDIA and Intel can suck it. They overcharge damn near as badly as Apple... and OpenGL support is far more important than Windows drivers, what with Windows gaming circling the drain.
Same here, I dropped Radeon way back when they started using their "catalyst" driver, which was a huge resource hog. Have been using Nvidia happily ever since starting with a 6800gt that I replaced my Radeon X800 with, I've since used the 7600gt, 8600gtx, 9800gx2, and I'm currently on the 560gtx ti.SlaveNumber23 said:Definitely Nvidia, I've had nothing but trouble with Radeon drivers so I swapped to Nvidia, no issues whatsoever.
so you decided not to include your own answer in the poll o_0The Nossa said:Personally I've used both types and have no real preference.
I'm building it from scratch. It's pretty hard to figure out what graphics card suits me just by looking at numbers. I had already settled on the Intel Core i5 3750K Ivy Bridge processor but maybe not. Graphics cards all look ridiculously expensive to me right now and to add insult to injury they all come with Assassin's Creed III which I wouldn't touch with a long stick.loc978 said:Not really, if what you're looking for is the fastest thing available (same goes for NVIDIA)... which is really only useful for future-proofing your system at this point. If you just want to play every game on the market on high graphical settings for the next five years or so, build an AMD system at about half the price.JudgeGame said:Is there a better alternative to an Intel processor? I was just about to buy one.loc978 said:Five years ago I would have said NVIDIA, because ATI drivers were a ***** to deal with. Nowadays, NVIDIA and Intel can suck it. They overcharge damn near as badly as Apple... and OpenGL support is far more important than Windows drivers, what with Windows gaming circling the drain.
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mind you, if you're just buying a processor to upgrade an existing system, you're stuck within a single generation of intel processors by the slot on your motherboard... same as any other computer (at least the good, modular ones that don't have the processor soldered onto the board).