Graphics cards

[BrotherTobious]

If you had the choice which would you go for and why, cause I am thinking upgrading and these 2 seem to be where I want to be.

Nvidia GTX 285  
Ati HD 4850 X2

Pros, cons, likes, hates, feelings anything would be great.

Thanks lads and lasses

[kregoron]

if its not the money thats bothering you, then id choose the ATI radeon 4870 x2 as its overall 10-12% faster then the GTX285..

But then again its also 20-30% more expensive

[GhostMjr]

Old memories in my world don't die hard.

Now i bought a radeon 9600 pro back in the day.

This is years ago. Anyway i bought a ge x cube and it was fine. Until the day call of duty 1 came out. That was a fun day. As guess what?

The card needed new drivers anyway from then on any drivers from ati would constantly reboot my computer. This occured with my friends computer as he had the same card.

The stories from ati woes also come from issues with ninja's 9800 pro.

That card was ok but seriously nvidia are rock solid.

Open box, put into pc case, load up pc and it runs.

Ok not all the time but i will never touch anything ati again even if nvidia were more expensive.

My 2 pence

[Carr0t]

Gotta admit, speaking as someone who had an ATI 2 PCs ago, and one in the current PC, both times due to the price/performance (price this time, performance last time) tradeoff being *far* better than nVidia at the time, at the mo I gotta agree with Ghosty. If I was buying now, it'd be nVidia all the way. I've never had an ATI card and *not* had all sorts of problems with getting it running nicely, driver issues etc etc, even if they've been solved in the end. All the nVidias i've had have been rock solid from the get go. Unless there's a mahoosive performance or price difference in favour of ATI go with nVidia.

Also he said 4850 X2 not 4870 X2 Kreg

[kregoron]

oh right, i might have been a bit hasty there...

Right well the two cards are around the same price and performance..

So i would put my money on the 4850 X2 tbh.. it has a troumendous amount of memory to cope with high AA/AF..
and with nVIDIA's recent driver and core issues i wouldnt buy em at this time..  eventho both are great cards..


Note: im neither a fan of ATI or nVIDIA, i just go for the best available brand at the moment.. and i suggest to people what i find the best at the moment, next month it might be a nvidia card if they solve their recent issues

Yeah i got to somewhat give Carr0t and Ghostmjr right, ATI have had serious driver issues, which i gotta admit they have solved, and now its nVIDIA hitting the wall with oversized crap drivers and some serious core production flaws, seeing GTX260/280/285/290 having a return rate in the 15-20%..