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[Allizia]

Originally Posted by Qaedain [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You'll be disappointed to learn that NVIDIA has had more than their fair share of issues as of late. With a new generation of GPUs on the prowl from both vendors, both have spent the last several months tackling one bug after another.

Never had a single problem in 10+ years of gaming, with the exception of updating my drivers twice (in 10 years, both in 1999/2000 with EQ) I'll be loyal just for the dependability until that changes.

From what I've heard about FFXIV, nvidia cards play great and ATI cards are crapping out bad, to the point of it being unplayable, especially the higher end ones. I've heard ATI doesn't want to release drivers for it since it has the NVidia logo.

Basically, I have a lot of gamer friends, and a lot of them are hardcore ATI fanbois, but every single one of them has had issues or was unable to do/play something due to drivers or the card at least a few times, while that has never happened to me or most of my friends that use Nvidia.

[Qaedain]

Originally Posted by Allizia [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Never had a single problem in 10+ years of gaming, with the exception of updating my drivers twice (in 10 years, both in 1999/2000 with EQ) I'll be loyal just for the dependability until that changes.

From what I've heard about FFXIV, nvidia cards play great and ATI cards are crapping out bad, to the point of it being unplayable, especially the higher end ones. I've heard ATI doesn't want to release drivers for it since it has the NVidia logo.

Basically, I have a lot of gamer friends, and a lot of them are hardcore ATI fanbois, but every single one of them has had issues or was unable to do/play something due to drivers or the card at least a few times, while that has never happened to me or most of my friends that use Nvidia.

Why even solicit opinions when you've already made up your mind based on empirical evidence?

[Allizia]

Originally Posted by Qaedain [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why even solicit opinions when you've already made up your mind based on empirical evidence?

Ehh, I just don't have any reason to switch. Appreciate all the information though

[President]

As far as I can remember I always saw more driver issues with Nvidia than I did with ATI. A simple google search brings up quite a few from the past including "30% of windows vista crashed due to nvidia drivers" and "nvidia drivers causing overheating and card failures". Not to say ATI doesn't have their own issues too, but throwing ATI under the bus as the only company to have driver issues with windows is wrong. However, when I fooled around with Ubuntu about 3 1/2 years ago some ATI cards had issues with Linux drivers, where as Nvidia cards, for the most part, did not. I would surely hope by now that it has been fixed, but if you may want to use Linux, that's something to consider.

Anyway, you forgot to include what stickers you put on your computer case. I'm not sure you computer description had enough detail in it to fully help with a video card decision.

[Allizia]

Originally Posted by President [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Anyway, you forgot to include what stickers you put on your computer case. I'm not sure you computer description had enough detail in it to fully help with a video card decision.

26 Nvidia stickers of course! JK, and my Nvidia references are limited to me and other gamers I know in real life so it's not a complete picture by any means, just personal experiences. The computer details were just a copy/paste of the description from the guy that builds my computers, and making sure everything else was good to go.

I'm was kind of worried about 2 cards generated too much heat or ovewhelming the power supply as well, I can swap cards and install ram chips etc, but I don't keep up the current hardware

[Kelven]

I gave ATI another shot when the 4870's came out, and F&*K i hate it. Completely unstable P.O.S. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Whenever I "upgrade" again I'm going back to Nvidia. ATI = expensive paperweight.

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my 4870x2 dosent have any stability issues, way better than my nvidia cards i have had in the past

runs a bit hot but you can get a fan patch to up the speed then its all good.