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Put off by ATI ?

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How many of you have bought an ATI card and have been gutted with the issues with drivers.
Has anyone been completely converted to Nvidia and vowed never to go red again ?
Powerplay issues and driver issues are a big issue and im not sure if I can be bothered with it all any more.
Im wantinmg to hold out till 6xxx but am i right in thionking that the problems will not go away ?
 
10.4s are good for me too cainer
its the powerplay issues that are starting to do my head in
randomly down clocking and only a reboot will fix
 
There will always be problems with hardware. Have had cards from both vendors over the years and the last major problem I had was my GeForce ti4200 (flashed and OCd to hell) caught fire.

Regarding drivers, I've just installed the latest Cats as I've noticed them come out. Not had a single problem with my 5850. I did noice better performance with 10.4 than .5 and .6 but the 10.8 has increased my minimum fps by a bit in BC2.

Now nVidia has a semi popular card in the GTX460 there are more and more threads regarding problems with nV drivers.
 
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Nvidia have their share of driver problems as well. We're talking about extremely complicated software and hardware running in a huge number of different environments, there are always going to be problems.
 
Both camps can have problems, only problem I had with ATI drivers was with powerplay and the clocks bouncing up and down in games and the higher idle temps and volts when overclocking introduced with the 10.5 drivers, this is not a problem with nVidia. ATI have known about these powerplay issues for months now but they are not reactive to the problem. Still I would go back to ATI if the hardware is good enough, for me the single GPU drivers are up there with Nvidia's, apart from the powerplay issues.
 
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I've had both cards, and think there both good, however i do prefer the nvidia drivers as constant driver updates become annoying, i think Nvidia's closer ties to developers also give them a edge here
 
Drivers have been fine, card has been awesome.

Only issue is higher idle clocks if you overclock, I think most of the issues you will see are about crossfire
 
At this moent in time I am more put off by Nvidia in just over two years I have had four graphics cards and a motherboard die on me

8800gtx
x2 gtx280
Striker 2 Forumula motherboard (Nforce 7 Chipset)
And last week my girlfreinds GTX275 died
 
Bodom said:
At this moent in time I am more put off by Nvidia in just over two years I have had four graphics cards and a motherboard die on me

8800gtx
x2 gtx280
Striker 2 Forumula motherboard (Nforce 7 Chipset)
And last week my girlfreinds GTX275 died
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Your even more unlucky then I am, every video card I've owned has died (or was dying/artifacting badly and when I say every video card that goes back to the 3DFX Voodoo 1 days) but generally that's over a life span of 18 months to 2 years and that includes both ATI and Nvidia products, video cards just don't seem to have any longevity built into them.
 
never had major or lasting problems with ati. getting more random problems and crashes with the 460 I have atm but again nothing to serious

all in all had slightly better experience with ati cards Ive had over the nvidia cards (my history goes all the way back to riva)
 
I went ATI because of all the problems i had with nvidia drivers when i was running SLI.

All those that claim Nvidia drivers are great and ATI rubbish well its just not true as ive had zero problems with since i changed to ATI.

Nvidia are now also a full generation behind and in danger of going bust but most of all its the dirty tricks they pull is the main reason ill never go back to them.
 
Both companies has issues with drivers.
crossfire/sli is always gonna be complicated and have issues with depending on game and set up.

I had issues with both companies.
the recent 5850 I have with eyefinity, work 98% ok, but multi displays just has issues with windows OS.
I buy the best for the bang buck cards, either it be nvidia or ati.
recently it been ati.
I owned a 8800GT card as it was the best bang card at the time.
 
Theres at least 3 apps out there I can think of that disable powerplay, for those that have issues, since day one there have been solutions, I've said it many times now, yes ATi should have a nice page with links to download gpu clock tool, or go get afterburner, or a couple other apps, and explain how to fix problems, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Asus, Gigabyte, etc, etc should all have their own "common pages and fixes" section that isn't some truly retarded knowledgebase ridiculous 10 years of problems rubbish crap of which 98% is useless information.

But ATi powerplay issues, fix your clocks with gpu clock tool or afterburner is ridiculously easy, well known and fixes all your problems, is that really so hard?
 
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yet again the same thing....if its that easy why does ATI not fix it? The end user pay's £700 for 5870CF only to have to mess around to get it work...beacuse it that easy yeah? completly not the point here

Defo driver problems, which i admit not really had many has made change my mind to go green in future, being lucky enough to have 2 i7 rigs 1 ati 1 nvid i think ATI only has there self to blame for not accepting there are problem and commenting on fix rather then wait for driver day to which 4 threads with "epic fail going back to 10.5"
 
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