AMD/ATI or Intel/NVIDIA platform

p/tBuilder · 23 Sep 2011 at 08:14

If you wanted to build a system for gaming and had a budget of £1000, would you go for the AMD/ATI platform or the Intel/Nvidia one?

mdixson · 23 Sep 2011 at 08:15

Why not - AMD/Nvidia or Intel/ATI?

ByMRK1 · 23 Sep 2011 at 08:21

Isn't the ATI AMD now? So I'm assuming that they would work best with each other, But if I had to choose, Intel/nVidia as for £1000 you could get a smoking computer! (Core i5 2500k, 570, 600t etc.)

Redmint · 23 Sep 2011 at 09:59

mdixson said:
Intel/ATI?

I'd go with this option as we still don't really know how good bulldozer is yet however I think the 6950 is probably the best value in the mid-high graphics card market still.

p/tBuilder · 24 Sep 2011 at 14:09

mdixson said:
Why not - AMD/Nvidia or Intel/ATI?

Seeing as ATI is a part of AMD I assumed that NVIDIA gpu's woudln't be compatible with AMD m'boards; same for ATI gpu's with Intel one's, but seeing as you're point indicates the opposite, in future I might try NVIDIA with AMD builds as I've not had great success with ATI cards.

p/tBuilder · 24 Sep 2011 at 14:14

ByMRK1 said:
Isn't the ATI AMD now? So I'm assuming that they would work best with each other, But if I had to choose, Intel/nVidia as for £1000 you could get a smoking computer! (Core i5 2500k, 570, 600t etc.)

Yep, this is the whole thing; ATI is part of AMD has been for yonks. That's why all of my five builds (not a lot by some ppl's standards...) includng the current one was based on the AMD m'board/ATI gfx-card platform, but in truth I've always experienced some basic issue even though eventually I got them up and running as such.
In future I'm going to try the Intel/nVidia platform...