• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

went from nvidia to amd. worst decision ever????

Status
Not open for further replies.
Should have bought a Mac tbh! No issues, no drivers, just works, and game better than dese silly windows cards at 4K.

Just sell it all and get a mac! Apple with save you!


Also as others have said try cleaning out the NVIDIA drivers entirely, driver cleaner use to be recommended a lot. Personally I just removed it all, booted into Safe Mode and removed anything that remained.

Then I'd install the AMD drivers, never failed me before.

Worse case, you simply need to bite the bullet and reinstall windows.
 
rolypolyman said:
I will bite because I'm sick to death with fanboys ruining this forum. Having no allegiance to either graphics card manufacturer and having had super cards from both. My last three graphics cards have been Amd/Ati and trouble free and before that Nvidia, trouble free, you sir are a typical fanboy and the above is utter rubbish. Please stop this fanboy stuff, surely you can post comments without having to blatently troll. :mad:

To the OP, sorry you are having problems with your new card, it can happen to anyone and there can be many causes, hopefully someone will hit on it and save you a lot of hassle. Good luck mate. :)
Click to expand...

This have had amd and nvidia and both have been fine when the hardware is ok i bought a 280x thats was artifacting and was replaced now ok and i bought a 780 gtx secondhand that kept blue screening so got a refund but that 780 wouldnt stop me buying a new 780. like back in the 8 bit days trying to buy a speccy +2 that worked first time was not easy lol didnt stop people buying them because when you got one that worked it was cool.
 
N19h7m4r3 said:
Should have bought a Mac tbh! No issues, no drivers, just works, and game better than dese silly windows cards at 4K.

Just sell it all and get a mac! Apple with save you!
Click to expand...

Just checked out the latest Apple PCs, they are a bit slow, underpowered and out of date aren't they.

I would rather spend a bit extra and build something with a bit of muscle.:D
 
Kaapstad said:
Just checked out the latest Apple PCs, they are a bit slow, underpowered and out of date aren't they.

I would rather spend a bit extra and build something with a bit of muscle.:D
Click to expand...

By the time you order and build, which we all know you can't! Only Geniuses can! It'll have lost 99% of it's value! Jus go apple y0! :p
plus apple's new macbook pro 27" will be out with 4, FOUR! GT760ms!( make believe ) You can't beat that powwa y0!


I hope the OP responds and let people know if he actually fixed the issue. Either with a driver wipe or if he just reinstalled windows as a last resort.
 
Last edited:
N19h7m4r3 said:
By the time you order and build, which we all know you can't! Only Geniuses can! It'll have lost 99% of it's value! Jus go apple y0! :p
plus apple's new macbook pro 27" will be out with 4, FOUR! GT760ms!( make believe ) You can't beat that powwa y0!


I hope the OP responds and let people know if he actually fixed the issue. Either with a driver wipe or if he just reinstalled windows as a last resort.
Click to expand...

This all reminds me of when a guy at work decided to see if he could beat my PC on the Heaven 4 bench using an Apple computer.

Unfortunately for him my score was 12X higher than his lol.

If you want to have a go with your Apple PC at running Heaven 4 I would be interested in the result.
 
Haha, everyone has a go at nVidia for pricing but I seem to recall the same nVidia GPU for desktop being £400 and the same card for Apple costing £600 (or something like that). It was the same card with a different BIOS and nothing else.
 
Kaapstad said:
This all reminds me of when a guy at work decided to see if he could beat my PC on the Heaven 4 bench using an Apple computer.

Unfortunately for him my score was 12X higher than his lol.

If you want to have a go with your Apple PC at running Heaven 4 I would be interested in the result.
Click to expand...

Won't be much to tell really it's an old little GTX 660. One thing that is interesting however is that OpenGL performance in OSX and Linux, is faster than OpenGL in Windows for Heaven and Valley.

Once you run them in Direct X however, it's a different story. :p

Gregster said:
Haha, everyone has a go at nVidia for pricing but I seem to recall the same nVidia GPU for desktop being £400 and the same card for Apple costing £600 (or something like that). It was the same card with a different BIOS and nothing else.
Click to expand...

Yup, they just use an EFI.

Although that same 'normal' card can just be plugged into a Mac Pro and work. NVIDIA supply drivers on their site and OSX has support for them built it.
The only reason someone might want the Apple EFI one is for the Bootscreen to show up.
 
Gregster said:
Haha, everyone has a go at nVidia for pricing but I seem to recall the same nVidia GPU for desktop being £400 and the same card for Apple costing £600 (or something like that). It was the same card with a different BIOS and nothing else.
Click to expand...

Now you know why Apple use a lot of AMD cards.

They only have to value them at £500 to give the customer the impression of value for money.:D:)
 
Kaapstad said:
Now you know why Apple use a lot of AMD cards.

They only have to value them at £500 to give the customer the impression of value for money.:D:)
Click to expand...

It's mostly NVIDIA though. Although in some cases like the old Mac Pro you have the choice of either at ordering.

The new MP is all AMD simply due to OpenCL performance compared to NV.
 
Gregster said:
Haha, everyone has a go at nVidia for pricing but I seem to recall the same nVidia GPU for desktop being £400 and the same card for Apple costing £600 (or something like that). It was the same card with a different BIOS and nothing else.
Click to expand...

N19h7m4r3 said:
Won't be much to tell really it's an old little GTX 660. One thing that is interesting however is that OpenGL performance in OSX and Linux, is faster than OpenGL in Windows for Heaven and Valley.

Once you run them in Direct X however, it's a different story. :p



Yup, they just use an EFI.

Although that same 'normal' card can just be plugged into a Mac Pro and work. NVIDIA supply drivers on their site and OSX has support for them built it.
The only reason someone might want the Apple EFI one is for the Bootscreen to show up.
Click to expand...

Are the bios for these cards interchangeable, can you flash from one to the other.
 
Last 3 cards have been ATI/AMD not had any trouble with any of them

before that had Nvidia

as above but before reinstall of windows try Driver Cleaner Pro or Driver Sweeper.

Nvidia to AMD or AMD to Nvidia - likely to have problems with residual drivers unless removed completely (you uninstalled PhysX too, right?)
 
Kaapstad said:
Are the bios for these cards interchangeable, can you flash from one to the other.
Click to expand...

If the ROM is large enough you certainly can. Although it'll just give you the Bootscreen really.
There is an exception with the AMD 7950 where flashing affects the PCIe version used. If it's unflashed it'll usually just run at PCIe 1.

Although the majority of cards are just plug and play. For instance you can just plug in the GTX780Ti, or Titan and they'll work no problem. As mentioned NVIDIA also supply a universal driver for the GeForce and Quadro range in OSX.

With my GTX660 I just plugged it and turned on the system.

With the Apple cards they usually have both a BIOS, and EFI on the same board. The Apple 7950 has a little manual switch to change between them.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top Bottom