ATI vs. Nvidia

[lintonam]

Which would be better for a vid card? And whats a good card to use in the following system for under $200.

Pentium D 805 Dual Core

ECS C19-ASI Nvidia nForce 4 SLI XE  ATX ( May have to change if using ATI)

1 Gig of Corsair PC3500 DDR2 SDRAM (Board will support up to 16GB?)

Hitachi Deskstar 160GB 7200 RPM SATA HD

Thanks,
     Aaron

[ctjoyce]

nVidia 6800XT would be a excellent card for that system. Will run you about $180.

Cheers
Cameron

[Sukhoi_37]

If I were you, I would go for a 7600GT. Newegg sells them for around $170, and they outpeform the 6800XT's by a longshot.

And I do think you mean PC2-5300, not PC2-3500?;D

[Politically Incorrect]

ATI vs. Nvidia

Thats asking for trouble

[ctjoyce]

Thats asking for trouble

I was putting on the gloves when I saw that one

Cheers
Cameron

[Politically Incorrect]

I was putting on the gloves when I saw that one

Cheers
Cameron

LMAO!  ;D

[Joe_D]

I was putting on the gloves when I saw that one

Cheers
Cameron

Gloves?
Better put on your flack jacket!

Both companys leap frog each other and have their ardent "fan boys"

[NicksFXHouse]

I was putting on the gloves when I saw that one

Cheers
Cameron

(Nick pours a bit of super fast drying concrete mix into his gloves, then slips them on)

OK, I'm ready... lets rock  LOL

[kipman725]

they both make very nice graphics cards with very nice drivers (which they both refuse to make open source, grrr).  ATI's cards are nice and red and nvidias a a tastefull pine green.  The performance differance between there competing product lines are usualy small. Rearly there's no reason to get all fan boyish over there graphics cards... if you do I will bust out my voodoo2 accelerator then you'll be sorry!  ::)

Shiny RED ati card:


Shiney Nvidia card


Voodoo 2 with SLI ribbon cable (before Nvidia used the phrase sli as a marketing gimick)


actualy on reflection Nvidia sucks for the one reason they replaced the once meaningfull acronim scan line interweve with scalable link interface! burn!

*before anyone asks this post was aided by a mixture of coffee and a love of crazy old hardware.