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I'm planning on upgrading pretty soon and I'm seriously considering getting a 4870 -- or two! 
The thing is, the last time I had any experience with an ATI card was with my 9700pro and I'm really curious about support for HDTV overscan correction in the latest ATI drivers. I currently use a 1080p 50" DLP as my main monitor, however it has quite a bit of overscan that I'm able to correct for by using nvidia's drivers. Does ATI have similar (or better) functionality in their drivers? I'm still kind of on the fence about which route I'm going to go... and this small feature will help me decide. Although I guess I could futz around with some 3rd party tool like powerstrip if I really needed to. I'm also considering making the move to Vista x64 when I upgrade -- how do ATI and nvidia stack up as far as Vista driver support is concerned?
It looks pretty obvious to me that nvidia will have to cut prices on the GTX 260 to compete with the 4870, and if they do then my decision will become much more difficult. If they don't then my decision won't be much of a decision at all.
Assuming they do cut prices, I probably want to go multi-gpu either way, and if I go with SLI that locks me into an nvidia chipset motherboard which, judging by the feedback on these forums, seems to have a history of being less stable overall. On the otherhand, one thing that I think nvidia really has going for it is PhysX and, more importantly, CUDA in general -- I'm a programmer and I'd love to have the option to mess around with that stuff. ATI's offering in this department definitely pales in comparision.
Also, I guess there is a third and decidedly less-fun option of maybe just picking up a new vid card and limping along with my current computer in my sig until Nehalem arrives. Ahh... this is gonna be a rough choice.
The thing is, the last time I had any experience with an ATI card was with my 9700pro and I'm really curious about support for HDTV overscan correction in the latest ATI drivers. I currently use a 1080p 50" DLP as my main monitor, however it has quite a bit of overscan that I'm able to correct for by using nvidia's drivers. Does ATI have similar (or better) functionality in their drivers? I'm still kind of on the fence about which route I'm going to go... and this small feature will help me decide. Although I guess I could futz around with some 3rd party tool like powerstrip if I really needed to. I'm also considering making the move to Vista x64 when I upgrade -- how do ATI and nvidia stack up as far as Vista driver support is concerned?
It looks pretty obvious to me that nvidia will have to cut prices on the GTX 260 to compete with the 4870, and if they do then my decision will become much more difficult. If they don't then my decision won't be much of a decision at all.
Assuming they do cut prices, I probably want to go multi-gpu either way, and if I go with SLI that locks me into an nvidia chipset motherboard which, judging by the feedback on these forums, seems to have a history of being less stable overall. On the otherhand, one thing that I think nvidia really has going for it is PhysX and, more importantly, CUDA in general -- I'm a programmer and I'd love to have the option to mess around with that stuff. ATI's offering in this department definitely pales in comparision.
Also, I guess there is a third and decidedly less-fun option of maybe just picking up a new vid card and limping along with my current computer in my sig until Nehalem arrives. Ahh... this is gonna be a rough choice.