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Posted - 2009.01.19 05:23:00 -
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 Originally by: zombu2
as formerly stated ati is not the hardware you want to run your games on right at this time since drivers for ati/amd are a mess and do not work right
we had a lot of discussions on whats better but as for my opinion use nvidia (less problems better hardware) also ever tried to rma something with ati
it s pure insanity what you have to do to get your stuff back after you send it in
as for the hardware for a laptop
any amd dual core or intel will do just make sure you ask the sales person what shader model it supports
First off.. you don't ever RMA with ATI. You do it with the card manufacturer.. ATI makes the chips. Other companies buy the chips from ATI, put them on a card, and sell them to us. Its not AMD/ATI's fault if the manufacturer you bought the card off of has a crappy RMA system.
Second.. no. ATI has done a wonderful job of redoing their catalyst drivers lately. A year ago, two years ago, what you are saying was very true. After a brand spanking new product is released.. what you say is true.. but after a month or so goes by. Things work pretty dang well. And you really can't say Nvidia is any better, they have driver problems on release as well for a month or so after. I'd actually say that ATI and Nvidia are pretty close to parity in drivers support right now. Unless you are talking linux support.. and then thats just an odd argument all the way around considering the two companies vastly different takes on how to support the linux community... Nvidia wins some there, ATI wins some there.. and neither of them have enough support in that market to really call it "good" one way or the other.
Lastly... look at any graphics card comparisons lately? ATI is currently at the top of their game. They are the clear winner in price/performance right now. And until the GTX295 came out last week.. they had the best card in town. And personally, its about time. I'm not an ATI fanboy, but Nvidia had been the clear winner for too long. Cards were hitting ludicrous prices. Now, with some sort of competition in the market, prices are much more reasonable. And to me, thats a win for everyone. We can only hope that somehow AMD's CPU division can do something similar sometime soon, because prices for Intel's chips have been insane ever since the C2D came out(for the higher end parts). I'd like to see prices on those skus fall as well because someone else actually has something that can put out similar, or better, numbers; instead of Intel just charging whatever they want because they're the only game in town. |