Little Help Here (ati side)

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GlobalRegion256

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Thinking about buying a new graphic card in a few weeks. Was wondering what are some companies to stay away from on the Ati side? Also what are the big gun companies for Ati. What i mean by big guns is like Nvidia has EVGA-BFG-XFX. What are the companies out there that make graphic cards for Ati that are similar to evga-bfg-xfx?
 
Eh personally, I think Visiontek is the best Ati Company atm. They have the best warranty.
Other companies:

Palit
Asus
Sapphire
 
Sapphire generally gets a pretty bad rap for their support, so you should probably avoid them. Visiontek and Powercolor are the best brands because they both offer lifetime warranties. Other companies like ASUS, Gigabyte, and Palit provide standard warranties but have pretty good support as well.
 
GlobalRegion256 said:
Thinking about buying a new graphic card in a few weeks. Was wondering what are some companies to stay away from on the Ati side? Also what are the big gun companies for Ati. What i mean by big guns is like Nvidia has EVGA-BFG-XFX. What are the companies out there that make graphic cards for Ati that are similar to evga-bfg-xfx?
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to my knowledge, VISION TEK is the ONLY ATI company that offers a lifetime warranty, they also manufacture the ATI branded cards in fact the side of the ATI brand boxes says Vision Tek, I have also heard that Sapphire and ASUS are very good as well.
Im an nvidia boy too, recently purchased the ATI branded vision tek readeon 4870. Its been a nice card soo far, stable, changed the fan speed ofcourse, to 45 percent and my card idles at 44 to 46 C thats in a coolermaster stacker 830 case by the way, compared to my 8800 gts card which idled at around 57C at 90 percent fan speed. Text on my desktop seems to be sharper with the ATI card as well. Have yet to play any games since I did a reformat before installing this card but two days off after wednesday im gonna give Mass Effect a try.
 
PAlit is also a globally recognized company, thats why I recommended them.
 
Visiontek is the way to go. I remember when they first came to the scene with thier Nvidia cards back in 2000-2001.
 
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