It's the second one the Antec 1200.
I've heard about the backstabbings of ATI & Nvidia games. If it's ATI gamers moaning that they can't get NVIDIA PhysX, it seems that both companies shove in dodgy codes into their games to cause problems to players with the other manufacturers card.
Unfortunately, nVidia have been at the centre of a few controversial goings on recently. One is the butchering of DX10, but that's vague and not very clear what was going on, another involved Assassin's Creed and DX10.1, where nVidia didn't like the performance increase DX10.1 had on ATi cards (nVidia seemingly couldn't implement DX10.1 and therefore trashed it with claims of how it was pointless). The next is Batman Arkham Asylum, where seemingly there was a bit of code that meant AA (anti-aliasing) would work on only nVidia graphics cards, nVidia claimed the had helped rocksteady with AA code, it turns out they didn't, it was a simple generic AA implementation path, Eidos and nVidia blamed eachother.
As for PhysX, yeah, it only runs on nVidia hardware, but that isn't the actual issue behind it (it's owned by nVidia afterall), even if proprietary "standards" are rubbish and doomed to fail in this industry. The problem is that it takes an unnecessary amount of power to run physics calculations that aren't even realistic, that and they actually force PhysX to run on only one CPU core to give the illusion that an nVidia GPU is much more powerful than a CPU than it is (which with a quadcore is limiting the potential of CPU PhysX quite a lot). Then the fact that it's not realistic physics either, Mafia II for example, never mind the fact that the shards of glass explode outwardly at the point of contact. As well as exploding outwardly, the window shouldn't even be exploding the way it does, bullets often just go right through the window leaving bullet shaped holes in their place, with a bit of shattering and cracking around the bullet hole. Throw a brick or stone through a window, it doesn't explode, there's often just a hole slightly larger than the object that went through it left in its place.
I am sure you're probably 100% right, the only games I usually play on a computer is Mahjong Titans and Solitaire. But my husband who like many others have been using ATI since the 80's feel that some of the drivers at the moment feel rushed. It's great that ATI release drivers every month, it shows their support to their consumers. However, some people are saying that because Nvidia doesn't do this, they have more time to spend on their drivers making sure they are more stable.
My issue with people having issues with ATi drivers is that they often believe nVidia are free from such issues. Now I don't believe that nVidia or ATi have major issues driver wise, but I am aware that there can and will be problems that aren't user error, it happens. But what you often see is people quoting ATi driver issues, then completely blanking nVidia driver issues when presented with them. These same people also claim nVidia never ever have any problems ever. I don't quite understand this, because often they're in an nVidia thread whining about how they wish *insert problem here* was fixed, because the latest drivers did nothing for them.
It's an extremely bizarre situation. I often get labelled an ATi fanboy for my views, which I can understand to a certain degree, but the reality is that I'm not biased *towards* ATi, I'm biased *against* nVidia, if there were more companies than nVidia and ATi, and nVidia were still the same as they are now, I'd still be biased against them, because I don't like the way they operate, and an increasing amount of people are beginning to feel this way about them. I never slate nVidia hardware, or the drivers, where as the nVidia fanboys are constantly making completely made up claims of how "ATi never works", I often defend ATi only because of the fact that I'm a long time ATi user and don't understand how people find it so hard to just use a graphics card. I update my drivers every month, I don't have any issues that aren't PEBKAC related and generally get on well with the hardware that I use. But I can't stand people making claims that are simply untrue, even if it makes me look *biased* to ATi, which I'm not (as I often say, does it make me a Nestle fanboy if I dislike Kellog's?) But, I believe 90% of *driver* problems people have really is down to PEBKAC, and when you add PEBKAC to the reluctance of people to admit PEBKAC, you get issues arising that are make believe. These people are far more likely to claim crappy drivers than to even begin to think that they problem might be their own cause.
I've waffled on quite a bit here, but it's getting really tiresome seeing people perpetuate the same nonsense time and time again, use links to "back up" their "opinions" and then ignore everything that doesn't fit in with the perception of the situation they want to hold. As I've said, I dislike nVidia based solely on the actions they've taken as a company to their customers and prospective customers. Considering Microsoft have been fined by the EU Comission for acts less questionable than nVidia's says it all to, I think they simply aren't interested in nVidia because they're not as big as microsoft, so the fines would have to be a lot less.