ATI / NVIDIA Drivers These Days

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SKiTLz

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Im confusing the absolute shit outta myself trying to decide NVIDIA or ATi (x1800xl or 7800GT)

From what I can tell both are pretty much the same performance wise, after reading 8 million reviews..

What Im wondering though is how each company is with drivers these days? Im still on a 9800 so Im outta the loop...

Unbiased opinions on the driver game between the two would be much appreciated.

Cheers
 
Shouldn't that question be answered in the reviews?

TBH I don't think you can make a wrong choice, they are both equally good cards in all aspects. Close ur eyes and take a leap of faith :)
 
Do you want to run multi monitors? Go nVidia. Their setup just seems more natural than ATIs.

Do you want to run an OS other than windows? Go nVidia. They actually have support for them (do ATI support tv-out in linux yet?).

Other than that there is nothing it.
 
well from test of quake4 with i guy i know on another forum NV seems to have better multithread drivers then ATi the other guy has a ATi card other then that we have pretty much the same PCs
 
Great.. Thanks guys.. Yes some reviews touched on drivers but not much...

I dualboot nix so linux drivers will be a concern. I didnt even think of that. Thanks.

And I also run dual monitors.. So looks like 7800 it is... Think I'll go with the EVGA OC since everyone raves bout it
 
You know, I've always debated in my head about which card, nvidia or ati, to get also. I always owned an nvidia card. From a TNT to GF2 MX to a ti4600, and now a 6800NU. This whole time I've been wanting to try an ATI card. However, NV always seems to win me over. I'm going for the evga 7800 GT CO for xmas too. Congrats on ur choice :D
 
The ATi cards support dual monitors just as well as the NV does, and the drivers are no harder or less natural to configure. However, given that you will be running Linux, I still have to recommend NV for their Linux driver support.
 
Tigerblade said:
Shouldn't that question be answered in the reviews?

TBH I don't think you can make a wrong choice, they are both equally good cards in all aspects. Close ur eyes and take a leap of faith :)
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What if he picks up a x800xl by accident? lol
 
air2k5 said:
What if he picks up a x800xl by accident? lol
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No Dont worry... Im out of the loop.. Not retarded.. :p

Jesus_Faction. the monthly driver release thing. Its kind of a two way thing. I guess you could look at it like more frequent drivers so more bugfixes. Or you could look at it like why do they have to release new ones everymonth. Maybe cause there riddled with bugs.

Im on a 9800 right now and never had too many driver issues though... But the Linux support definately seals the deal.

Cheers
 
If ATI will finished their hardware Video encoding I might just stick with ATI. I head that nVidia version of GPU of hardware video encoding does not have any advantage in times.
 
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