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

[IndigoMoss]

Unfortunately I don't have a choice in which graphics card I put in my computer. ATI allows me to run my HDTV in 720p where as Nvidia, due to crappy overscan compensation methods, makes me run at 1219x688 which a lot of games and programs don't support. I also noticed a lot better resolution scaling on my ATI card, along with better IQ.

 

[randomizer]

IMO the IQ differences between GF8 and HD3x00 is too small to be a major factor. Now compare X1000 and GF7 and it's a different story.

 

[monst0r]

Where's the most important answer?

Whomever has the best features & performance for the price I'm willing to pay...

The answers above in the pool only fit people who never buy from any other company, which means they miss out on the best from generation to generation.

+1

 

[Gravemind123]

I buy whatever is the best card that I can afford but slightly lean towards ATI for my gaming machine because I've had better luck with their drivers for windows, but I lean nVidia if I was buying a system for linux as they seem to be more compatible with compiz and the fancy effects stuff which I've had trouble getting to work on ATI cards.

 

[rodney_ws]

Nvidia all the way. The pretty green logo is swell.

 

[rgsaunders]

Not being into gaming I base my selection on the 2D graphics and colour rendering on the card, this has normally resulted in selecting ATI, starting with the EGA Wonder, although for a few years I used Matrox cards, as they were well above the others in image quality. My first nVidia card was a TNT, I returned it after 20 minutes in my machine, the 2D graphics quality was garbage, they have since improved their filter design, my last nVidia card was a 7900GTX, but the poor quality of the nVidia Vista drivers have driven me back to ATI.

 

[TSIMonster]

Where's the most important answer?

Whomever has the best features & performance for the price I'm willing to pay...

The answers above in the pool only fit people who never buy from any other company, which means they miss out on the best from generation to generation.

I agree.... Fanboyism is :gay:

 

[circeseye]

your poll is a little short of why answers

i went with ati is cause i like how ati's picture looks and between the 3870 and the 8800gt on my 64in hdtv the ati looks the best between the 2 when hooked by eather composite or hdmi.

 

[xsamitt]

I've heard it time and time again.

Nvida...fastest frame rates.
ATI.....Best Picture.

Nuff said.

 

[leon2006]

Always choose the better product. Don't patronize the company.

 

[yipsl]

...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.

The choices you offered allowed me only one option; and I chose "ATI because Crossfire is the best". Well, it scales well compared to SLI and I like my single PCB dual GPU internal Crossfire 3870x2. The main reason I've gone ATI over the years was not on your list:

Image quality.

I've owned two Nvidia cards over the years, the latest being a 7600gs, and 5 ATI (two of which were All in Wonder). I keep cards for probably far too long and try to get the best ATI card I can afford. This time I could afford better than the $250 I usually spend.

Still, if there had been a modern day equivalent to the AIW 9800 Pro (equal to the gaming card), I'd have gone for it. A TV Wonder can't compete. I would love to see a future All in Wonder 4870, but I don't believe AMD wants to market such a hybrid card nowadays.

Overall, in games, in graphics editing, in video playback, I've preferred ATI image quality and I like AVIVO over Pure Cinema. So, I've gone ATI 5 times out of 7 these past 8 years. I only went Nvidia with the 7600gs because that MSI 405 chipset board had "chipset limitations" that prevented it from using an ATI card, otherwise I would have gotten an X1650 Pro like I put in my wife's PC.

Yep, I'm a total AMD platform fan nowadays. The 780G chipset is great for an HTPC and a budget PC with a 65 or 95 watt CPU. I'm looking forward to the 890 chipset that's expected out to replace the 790 this summer. Hopefully, it will be ready for Deneb in the 4th quarter.

 

[Heyyou27]

I generally try to buy whatever the fastest product available is for the price.

 

[99vw]

Well I went with my ATI HD3850 because for the price it was the best I could get at the time HD3850.

Then a week later and I mean a week later, Nvidia just had to come out with the 9600's and say haha im faster than you and cost the same

 

[FrozenGpu]

such a noob poll to bring up ....

2. nivdia has the best price point is b/c of this reason:

the best bang for the buck is the major reason out there for a little bit ati had its with their rv670 cores, but then nvidia dropped the price of their G92 cores, and the G94 cores, and it was possible to get an 8800gts 512 with 128 SP, a crap load of TMU's and 16 ROP's for $200, nuff said....thats basically the same as the high clocked 9800gtx's and within the same ball park, once oced as the 8800gtx and the ultra....

and if u were looking to get a mainstream card u could get a 8800gs and a 9600gt for cheap...so uh yeah....

 

[acidpython]

ed my video card for my linux box yet but I'm leaning toward the MSI 8600GT 512MB DDR3, it's $85.

Go for the 8800GS its a lot more bang for your buck

 

[warezme]

Unfortunately I don't have a choice in which graphics card I put in my computer. ATI allows me to run my HDTV in 720p where as Nvidia, due to crappy overscan compensation methods, makes me run at 1219x688 which a lot of games and programs don't support. I also noticed a lot better resolution scaling on my ATI card, along with better IQ.

ummm, you know, you can go in the drivers and have display all resolutions including those not detected as supported. Then you can manually set your native res of choice and your display will look perfect. If for some reason you notice it jitters as if its non interlaced, there is another setting that lets you change the signal or HD format than you can pick 720p and it will fix it permanently. My screen runs native 1080p (1920x1080) perfect, crystal clear ultra sharp.

You need to make sure you have your HDTV settings right, especially if you are using older drivers because it doesn't always sync up correctly by default so don't blame the drivers or Nvidia if its easily fixable.

 

[pauldh]

Where's the most important answer?

Whomever has the best features & performance for the price I'm willing to pay...

[:thegreatgrapeape:6] BINGO!

 

[zenmaster]

Where's the most important answer?

Whomever has the best features & performance for the price I'm willing to pay...

The answers above in the pool only fit people who never buy from any other company, which means they miss out on the best from generation to generation.

Bingo.
A Poll clearly written by a Fanboy.

Your answer is that of an intelligent consumer.

 

[inglburt]

My reason not listed either. My first card after 3dfx croaked was an ATI Radeon 64. Still works actually. I had a couple ATI cards for a while then tried NV. Geforce 6800, croaked after a week. Replacement died in about 3 months. Not only that but I didn't like the looks of the graphics. (No, I don't want to start this discussion again) Back to ATI for a couple. Back to NV cause ATI just wasn't cutting it. 8800 gtx. It's fast, the colors are still not quite there in my opinion, but I'm kinda used to it now. But I have more driver issues and crashes now than with the ATI cards from the last 6 or 7 years it seems. If they pull out a good card next time, I will get one. If not I will probably go with NV again.

 

[Andrius]

I picked the best available passive cooled card below 200 EUR.
A passive cooled HD3870 wasn't available so I got a passive cooled 9600GT.
Runs desktop duty around 40°C. Games at around 65°C.

My track record :
- 3Dfx Voodoo 3 2000 @ 3000 (still runs in a P200MMX computer)

- Radeon 9200 (sold it but still runs)

- GF6600GT (still runs in my second PC)

- Radeon X300 SE... biggest piece of crap I ever picked, screen refresh problems, blinking, shutting down display, desktop form refreshing with 3-4 second delays, 10 diffrent drivers tested. Switched with a co-worker for a 9550 that worked okey in my i945 board. XP form refreshing was still slow.

- GF8600GT (was better then a 2600 and the passive cooled 8600GTS was still over 200EUR for some strange reason which it was never worth)

- GF9600GT (got this for 150 EUR 6 months after the 8600 GT for 110 EUR)

So my poll call. Had both, only had more problems with ATI, but also only had really cheap ATI cards. Wouldn't mind getting a good ATI card again but there's just nothing from them on market(here) right now that fits my needs.

Sad really.

 

[angry_ducky]

Just a quick thought:

Unless you're an ATI or nV loyalist who absolutely won't consider a product from the other company, isn't posting on this forum kind of like asking other people to make the decision for you? I.E. You ask the question, other people answer, and then you buy the recommended.

Me? I don't use ATI or nV; ATI and nV use me!

And if I were buying right now? I'd go nV, but it doesn't matter, because I'm not buying right now (and probably not any time in the near future).

CPUs are a whole different story, though, for reasons which I won't discuss here.

 

[cal8949]

im more of an nvidia fan mostly bescause i love evga. but i build computers with ati cards depending on the type of system and price/performance

low end gaming rig = ati
high end gaming rig = nvidia
grandma's computer = ati

i do like crossfire over sli because its on intel and amd chipsets and you can use 2 diffrent cards

i think you do get more bragging rights with nvidia

 

[The Lads]

Had a ati 9800 pro for yrs, and would never have changed it but for it died, best card I ever bought.
After it died I got an ati x800 pro, it was ok for a while, but when it couldn't handle bioshock I was suprised and dissapointed so upgraded my entire system

Now running with an nvidia 8800 gt on xp, so far very happy with the results.

Not a fanboy of either company, will get the best I can afford, and at the moment that's exactly what I've got.

 

[rockit00]

Long story... My first modern computer was a Medion MD1704 with integrated graphics. I bought it at Best Buy in October 2003. I bought a Christmas issue of Computer Gaming World in Dec.2003. In order to play the Free Game demos (2CD's) I needed an add in card. I was going to go Nvidia (living in Oakland, CA. and Online reviews) but my apartment manager had an ATI Radeon 7000 that he was dying to sell me. I bought it for $39.00 and he insisted on installing it in my machine! O.K. fine... I installed Homeworld 2 and Star Wars: Jedi Knight Jedi Academy demos and the rest is HISTORY. The ATI card was perfect for these games and I was sooo pissed off at the Vagyr and the Dark Side Jedi that I got caught up in PC Gaming!!! To make a long story short..(Randall) My apartment manager is to blame for me going from Radeon 7000 to Radeon 9550 to X850Pro to X850XTPE to X1950Pro to X1900XTX to HD 3870 to HD3870Turbo. I have nothing against Nvidia (except maybe expense) but I am Familiar with ATI/AMD and of the dozen or so cards I've purchased and flashed and modded, I have had only one problem (minor 1st X850Pro). ATI video/Intel cpu and first impressions are lasting! Thanks.

 

[n8dogg]

I like whatever is fastest