Why do you choose your respective company (nVidia / ATi)

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  • Nvidia because they have the fastest cards!

    Votes: 12 15.4%

  • Nvidia because they have the fastest card at my price point.

    Votes: 29 37.2%

  • Nvidia because i think that their branding is cooler.

    Votes: 4 5.1%

  • Nvidia because SLi is the best!

    Votes: 2 2.6%

  • ATI because they have the fastest cards!

    Votes: 3 3.8%

  • ATIbecause they have the fastest card at my price point.

    Votes: 19 24.4%

  • ATI because i think that their branding is cooler.

    Votes: 3 3.8%

  • ATI because Crossfire is the best!

    Votes: 6 7.7%
  • Total voters
    78
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This is a pole in search for why one would pick ATI over Nvidia or vice versa. I am doing some research on what types of choices people make and why they make them. I would greatly appreciate it if you could submit your vote while making sure it is the best for your situation. Thank you for helping with this research.
 
None of the above. I choose ATI 'cause I've just had better luck with their cards. (2 failed nVidia-based, 5 good ATI-based)
 
Dont see an option for buying whatever most suits the intended use?

I choose whoever makes the best card or whoever makes the best card at the pricepoint im looking at, I dont care for "company loyalty" in the slightest. Im pretty sure Im not alone in this strategy performance \ image quality \ price are far more important considerations than a red or green logo to my mind! Your poll choices seem to based around people only buying for one machine or only ever buying one brand?

Hence I have 8800GTX's in my main gaming rigs where price was not a problem and am looking at a 2600xt for my sons rig where I would prefer to keep things on a budget.

Video cards to me are more like toasters than religions...
 
Primarily picked my 3870 card over a 8800 gt card due to the price/performance ratio. The 3870 was way cheaper here in Denmark than the 8800.
Other reasons for the ati on my part:
The 3870 should run slightly cooler. Not that important though.
My motherboard is Xfire capeable, so I can upgrade later on by buying an additional 3870.
 
I have always used ATI in the past because i was a poor teenager and then a poor airman in the air force. Now I'm an NCO and am building a computer for Gutsy (ubuntu 7.1) so this time I'm going Nvidia.

BTY I have never had an ATI card fail but my buddy had 2 in a row fail after mild overclocks.

9500 Pro, still in use by a buddy of mine
X800GT Still in my oldest computer (upgraded from 9500 Pro)
X800XL Still running in my newer build (give you an idea on how old my computers are LOL)

I have not purchased my video card for my linux box yet but I'm leaning toward the MSI 8600GT 512MB DDR3, it's $85.
 
None of the above. I base my decision on best performance at my price point at the time I buy. Last video card bought Dec 2006 - 640 MB 8800GTS.

I pretty much agree with dtq, "Video cards to me are more like toasters than religions... ".
 
NVIDIA:
1) Better driver support
2)Cooler /literally or not/
3)TWIMTBP - The Way It's Meant To Be Played :)
4)Better architecture
5)More innovative!
 


Both offer decent cards at times, at good prices, but as luck has it, every time i go looking on the market for a new card, Nvidia managed to bring out a card just right for me.

I was eyeing off a ATi Radeon 9800 Pro, till a Nvidia 6600GT came along, same as my 7900GT, and 8800GT.

Cards die or have issues when idiot manafacturers like MSI add this crappy cooler to there cards that fails and causes all sorts of issues - My MSI Ti4200 had a gigantic cooler but wasnt flat, and had copper cooling, which was stuck on an aluminum plate - the thing overheated and caused all sorts of headaches - a smaller cooler from an old card did the job 10x better and quietier too.
 
Nvidia until the old GeForce ti4400 became outdated
ATi until the 9600XT became outdated

ATi // ASUS - X800 - Overheated / fried (on stock speed and with the stock cooler and a non stock oc cooler on stock clocks.)

Nvidia // ASUS EN7900GS (Works like a charm even today)

Tomorrow my new twin 8800 GTX will arrive :) ((waited to upgrade to a new computer for a long time and tomorrow it'll finally happen))

Why do I stick with Nvidia now?

2 reasons:

1) Had very very very negative experiences with ATi both the X800 and it's replacement after it overheated and broke down no matter how big the effort to cool them down. (and still get outperformed by NVidia cards.)
2) Nvidia is the king of the market at this point in time.

Regardless of my opinion at this point, the market will remain a tug of war. Sometimes ATi leads and sometimes NVidia leads. When it's time to upgrade to a new rig after the one arriving tomorrow I will reevaluate who's where on the market and make my choice.

For now however it's one more vote for NVidia.

Greetz,

Thurin
 
The poll is next to worthless, IMO. I for one look for an acceptable balance of speed, price and noise, not simply one of these factors. And your poll forces me to choose a brand - not being tied to a brand I would make that choice when I purchase, not now.

Instead of starting another ATI vs. nVidia thread ( :pfff: ), just read through forum posts and see what people post for their system specs. What you seek is littered throughout the furums, you just need to do a little data mining.

Edit: Also, your poll fails to mention Video Quality, power consumption, noise, and driver quality as possible deciding factors.
 
None of the above since I go with either one based on price/performance ratio at upgrade time. That is the reason I have/or had 5900xt, 6800vanilla, x800gto, x1900gt, 7900gs, x1950pro and 8800GT the three last ones still in use and the x1900gt just back from RMA with Sapphire hence the 8800GT.
 
Im still with My X850, want to change really, but no NEW inovations are coming. And i like to Upgrade. For Real.

I started long Ago with:

Matrox M3D 8MB - Imba card at the time.
Nvidia Tnt 2 M64 32MB- Much better than the matrox, but i didnt like it much.
It had good performance but the graphics it self
were a bit sub par.
Voodoo 3000 128 bit 32RAM- Imba upgrade, and the graphic quality was much much better.
Voodoo 5000 - 2x VSA Chips , 128 RAM, great image, still works !!
Geforce 4 ti4600 - Vary nice, broke down a little after the warranty finished.
ATI 9600XT Gamebuster 128mb - Very good card for his time. It was vary cheap.
ATI X850XT - My current card, still works, everything still playable, so ill keep it for now.

Going for Ati mainly because the 2 Nvidia cards that i had, 1 broke down with little use and no OC, the Other had really a sub par image quality ( even for its time).
 
My first ATI card was an EGA Wonder. ('86?). A VGA Wonder followed. I had a Rage card for a while too, I think the one with 8MB on it.
The first PC I got with a specific intent for gaming had a 440MX in it. That was back when I only built business PCs and servers; a cheap boutique actually built that one, but there were dropdowns where you chose the parts. After a couple years, its cheap PSU smoked, taking lots of stuff with it. The replacement I built had a 9200SE in it. Around this time I think I became aware of the whole nVidia vs. ATI debate. I probably would have chosen ATI.
I didn't build anything new for myself for years, but did have to replace another cheap PSU ( :pfff: ding! :non: ) Then I found THG, and Cleeve's excellent guide, so when I built again I used a 7600GT; another build I did at that time had a 6600GT. It wasn't because they were nVidia, it was because they occupied the recommended slot in the range I could afford. I gave that build away, and then used a 7900GS, for similar reasons.
I'm currently running a 3850, after major disappointments with a 3870. I don't play the most demanding games, so I see no difference between those two, but my wallet does.
Today, if I were going to buy a video card, I'd probably look at the 9600GT, or maybe a more reputable brand of 3870 (e.g. not Diamond). There's better and faster out there, but I just don't need it.

All that to say that I basically agree with dtq as well, but I'd add it's more like a washing machine or refrigerator than a toaster because of the cost.

And none of my builds use less than a tier-3 PSU now; the last one and the one I'm about to build (waiting on the case!) are tier-2.
 
Personally I choose the best card for the intended use/budget. I have an 8800GTX in my gaming PC, and 8800GTS(512) in my 2nd PC, and a 3870 in my HTPC. I'm not tied to a specific brand, though for my high performance machines I've been going with NVidia lately because of their better performance. If ATI has the best cards the next time I upgrade my gaming machine I'd happily switch to an ATI card.
 
I choose ATi because I have never had a bad card from them. I can't say that about nVidia, the last nVidia card I owned had a big problem with gaming. I know nVidia has improved greatly since those days but I'm just happy with the quality of ATi cards and at the prices of the higher end cards I just don't want to risk trying nVidia again.
 


Nvidia AND ATi make great cards, the issues we see are mostly due to dry joints or pop'd BGA joints (end user/transport faults, perhaps third party manafacturers eg MSI, using ATi/Nvidia GPU's) - i know someone in my area who i give (from my shop) a box of dead/faulty out of warranty video cards and he uses god knows what something with alot of heat carefully and re-melts the gpu bga package back to the card and sure enough he comes back with a box of working cards - success rate, 75% i would say - didnt believe it my self till i have him my old (and dead) 6600GT for AGP and sure enough next day he returned and it was working! 😀 *pats trusty 6600GT*
 
nvidia is just good in everything applications u use. ati is just best for GAMES but not in 3d application. (ex; sketchup, 3d max). if u decide just to play games, buy an ati but if ur want more than games, choose nvidia...
i'm an ex-ati...dun wan to us them anymore... (not mentioning workstation graphic card)
 
I bought the Radeon 3850 because at the time I thought it has exactly the right budget/performance ratio for me.

When the Radeon 3850 was release I immediately snagged one as early as I could because it was a whole lot faster than the 8600GTS on just a few bucks more.
 
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