ATI Radeon or nVidia?
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What's your preference? I've used both in the past, and see little difference, but I know a lot of people have strong opinions about the brands available, and usually for good reason. While I have a good recommendation for the server card from John already, I want something a little more zippy for the client system. High powered grapics acceleration isn't necessary, as I couldn't care less about gaming, but I do enjoy photography and an occasional movie, and I might be venturing into video editing sometime this year. At the moment I'm running WinXP, but I wouldn't be averse to switching to Windows 7 eventually. What do you suggest? Is there a viable 3rd option?
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You don't need to spend more than about $80 on a card that can do video and stuff like that. As long as it's PCIe and has at least 512mb of ram, you should be good to go.
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What's your preference? I've used both in the past, and see little difference, but I know a lot of people have strong opinions about the brands available, and usually for good reason. While I have a good recommendation for the server card from John already, I want something a little more zippy for the client system. High powered grapics acceleration isn't necessary, as I couldn't care less about gaming, but I do enjoy photography and an occasional movie, and I might be venturing into video editing sometime this year. At the moment I'm running WinXP, but I wouldn't be averse to switching to Windows 7 eventually. What do you suggest? Is there a viable 3rd option?
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Since I use linux 50/50 there is only 1 choice nVidia. Any card containing a GPU from any other manufacturer will most likely cause you more problems and also you will not get GPU accelerated video like you do with vdpau. At home on my quad core linux desktop (main machine) my current card is a 512 MB nVidia 8400GS fanless card. I paid $35 at newegg for it and it came with a $15 mail in rebate. It works great in every thing I hit it in in linux. Even for the 2 windows games I play under wine (WC3 and glest).
John
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What's your preference? I've used both in the past, and see little difference, but I know a lot of people have strong opinions about the brands available, and usually for good reason. While I have a good recommendation for the server card from John already, I want something a little more zippy for the client system. High powered grapics acceleration isn't necessary, as I couldn't care less about gaming, but I do enjoy photography and an occasional movie, and I might be venturing into video editing sometime this year. At the moment I'm running WinXP, but I wouldn't be averse to switching to Windows 7 eventually. What do you suggest? Is there a viable 3rd option?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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What's your preference? I've used both in the past, and see little difference, but I know a lot of people have strong opinions about the brands available, and usually for good reason. While I have a good recommendation for the server card from John already, I want something a little more zippy for the client system. High powered grapics acceleration isn't necessary, as I couldn't care less about gaming, but I do enjoy photography and an occasional movie, and I might be venturing into video editing sometime this year. At the moment I'm running WinXP, but I wouldn't be averse to switching to Windows 7 eventually. What do you suggest? Is there a viable 3rd option?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
I use ATI at work and nVidia at home. No issues with either one. Like you, I don't do any gaming, only low-powered stuff like DVD movies, video editing (very amateurish stuff). Windows only. FWIW, Windows 7 worked on both without any problems. I think ATI's control center requires the .NET framework, but since that gets installed anyway, there is really no difference.
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What's your preference? I've used both in the past, and see little difference, but I know a lot of people have strong opinions about the brands available, and usually for good reason. While I have a good recommendation for the server card from John already, I want something a little more zippy for the client system. High powered grapics acceleration isn't necessary, as I couldn't care less about gaming, but I do enjoy photography and an occasional movie, and I might be venturing into video editing sometime this year. At the moment I'm running WinXP, but I wouldn't be averse to switching to Windows 7 eventually. What do you suggest? Is there a viable 3rd option?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
I don't know about brands, but for photography make sure it has integrated RAM (as much RAM as you can afford) and dual monitor support. When I used to do photography and edited in Photoshop I had a card that did not support that and it drove me nuts. The new Photoshop actually uses the graphics processing unit. I still use XP on a couple of my computers and do occasional photo work on them still. I don't know about video though.
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What's your preference? I've used both in the past, and see little difference, but I know a lot of people have strong opinions about the brands available, and usually for good reason. While I have a good recommendation for the server card from John already, I want something a little more zippy for the client system. High powered grapics acceleration isn't necessary, as I couldn't care less about gaming, but I do enjoy photography and an occasional movie, and I might be venturing into video editing sometime this year. At the moment I'm running WinXP, but I wouldn't be averse to switching to Windows 7 eventually. What do you suggest? Is there a viable 3rd option?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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What's your preference? I've used both in the past, and see little difference, but I know a lot of people have strong opinions about the brands available, and usually for good reason. While I have a good recommendation for the server card from John already, I want something a little more zippy for the client system. High powered grapics acceleration isn't necessary, as I couldn't care less about gaming, but I do enjoy photography and an occasional movie, and I might be venturing into video editing sometime this year. At the moment I'm running WinXP, but I wouldn't be averse to switching to Windows 7 eventually. What do you suggest? Is there a viable 3rd option?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
I've never had a problem with ATI. I've had one or two with nVidia. Both have linux drivers that support hardware acceleration. I'm currently using a Radeon HD4850 in a dual-boot win 7 x64 / ubuntu 9.10 x64 machine.
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What's your preference? I've used both in the past, and see little difference, but I know a lot of people have strong opinions about the brands available, and usually for good reason. While I have a good recommendation for the server card from John already, I want something a little more zippy for the client system. High powered grapics acceleration isn't necessary, as I couldn't care less about gaming, but I do enjoy photography and an occasional movie, and I might be venturing into video editing sometime this year. At the moment I'm running WinXP, but I wouldn't be averse to switching to Windows 7 eventually. What do you suggest? Is there a viable 3rd option?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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I've never had any problems with ATI hardware, but I have had trouble with ATI drivers doing weird things to my system. I tend to stick to Nvidia these days for my Windows machines.
That's just my conclusion, the hardware is not the problem, they are both as fast as you can afford, but the ATI drivers usually just hang my systems during reboot, while they just booted up fine, 30 seconds before that. X| Switched back to nVidia hardware and drivers and all is fine again. :doh:
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What's your preference? I've used both in the past, and see little difference, but I know a lot of people have strong opinions about the brands available, and usually for good reason. While I have a good recommendation for the server card from John already, I want something a little more zippy for the client system. High powered grapics acceleration isn't necessary, as I couldn't care less about gaming, but I do enjoy photography and an occasional movie, and I might be venturing into video editing sometime this year. At the moment I'm running WinXP, but I wouldn't be averse to switching to Windows 7 eventually. What do you suggest? Is there a viable 3rd option?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
I'd say go for a Radeon 5770 ... See http://vishaldoshi.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/in-the-market-for-a-new-mainstream-graphics-card/[^]
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I'd say go for a Radeon 5770 ... See http://vishaldoshi.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/in-the-market-for-a-new-mainstream-graphics-card/[^]
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What's your preference? I've used both in the past, and see little difference, but I know a lot of people have strong opinions about the brands available, and usually for good reason. While I have a good recommendation for the server card from John already, I want something a little more zippy for the client system. High powered grapics acceleration isn't necessary, as I couldn't care less about gaming, but I do enjoy photography and an occasional movie, and I might be venturing into video editing sometime this year. At the moment I'm running WinXP, but I wouldn't be averse to switching to Windows 7 eventually. What do you suggest? Is there a viable 3rd option?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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What's your preference? I've used both in the past, and see little difference, but I know a lot of people have strong opinions about the brands available, and usually for good reason. While I have a good recommendation for the server card from John already, I want something a little more zippy for the client system. High powered grapics acceleration isn't necessary, as I couldn't care less about gaming, but I do enjoy photography and an occasional movie, and I might be venturing into video editing sometime this year. At the moment I'm running WinXP, but I wouldn't be averse to switching to Windows 7 eventually. What do you suggest? Is there a viable 3rd option?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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What's your preference? I've used both in the past, and see little difference, but I know a lot of people have strong opinions about the brands available, and usually for good reason. While I have a good recommendation for the server card from John already, I want something a little more zippy for the client system. High powered grapics acceleration isn't necessary, as I couldn't care less about gaming, but I do enjoy photography and an occasional movie, and I might be venturing into video editing sometime this year. At the moment I'm running WinXP, but I wouldn't be averse to switching to Windows 7 eventually. What do you suggest? Is there a viable 3rd option?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
I only tried one NVidia card and it wouldn't even play the bundled game! Stuck with ATI ever since and never had a problem.
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nVidia, not sure why but always preferred them and never had any issues with them at all.
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What's your preference? I've used both in the past, and see little difference, but I know a lot of people have strong opinions about the brands available, and usually for good reason. While I have a good recommendation for the server card from John already, I want something a little more zippy for the client system. High powered grapics acceleration isn't necessary, as I couldn't care less about gaming, but I do enjoy photography and an occasional movie, and I might be venturing into video editing sometime this year. At the moment I'm running WinXP, but I wouldn't be averse to switching to Windows 7 eventually. What do you suggest? Is there a viable 3rd option?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
ATi. I've had an 8800, I think, and it didn't sit right. Not got any real reasons to back up my choice of an ATi 4870, but I like red, it's big, and the nVidia control software looked ugly to me. Not had any problems with the card or the drivers, and it was cheap as hell, at £90. (About $145.) It's pretty nice being able to hit 32kPPD with F@H, and 450 FPS in EVE-online, without even overclocking the card.
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That's just my conclusion, the hardware is not the problem, they are both as fast as you can afford, but the ATI drivers usually just hang my systems during reboot, while they just booted up fine, 30 seconds before that. X| Switched back to nVidia hardware and drivers and all is fine again. :doh:
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What's your preference? I've used both in the past, and see little difference, but I know a lot of people have strong opinions about the brands available, and usually for good reason. While I have a good recommendation for the server card from John already, I want something a little more zippy for the client system. High powered grapics acceleration isn't necessary, as I couldn't care less about gaming, but I do enjoy photography and an occasional movie, and I might be venturing into video editing sometime this year. At the moment I'm running WinXP, but I wouldn't be averse to switching to Windows 7 eventually. What do you suggest? Is there a viable 3rd option?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
I use ATI, cant stand nVidia. Maybe i'm the only guy around that has never had a problem with ATI drivers, ever. nVidia on the other hand constantly causes me issues. My roommate in college was having issues with games not playing and getting strange graphical errors in the ones that would load, so i gave him my radeon 9700(yeah it was a while ago) as soon as he got the drivers installed his whole pc ran faster and all the errors with running games want away. I think 90% of the other games started working too. I had a 8600, i think, in my work PC and it would barely run halo with out me having to go into the control center and changing things, it also did weird things to my color settings right out of the box i never could get them set right. I could be biased since i was a huge 3dfx fan and nVidia bought them and discontinued everything they made. The Voodoo 5 5500 was still the coolest and biggest video card i've ever owned.
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What's your preference? I've used both in the past, and see little difference, but I know a lot of people have strong opinions about the brands available, and usually for good reason. While I have a good recommendation for the server card from John already, I want something a little more zippy for the client system. High powered grapics acceleration isn't necessary, as I couldn't care less about gaming, but I do enjoy photography and an occasional movie, and I might be venturing into video editing sometime this year. At the moment I'm running WinXP, but I wouldn't be averse to switching to Windows 7 eventually. What do you suggest? Is there a viable 3rd option?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
The new ATI 5xxx series is roughly 2x as fast as the last generation nVidia 2xx series cards. The 3xx cards should allow nVidia to catch up, but yield problems at TSMC have delayed them repeatedly. Yields for ATI on the 40nm process have been fairly dismal as well, dunno if nVidia's are that much worse or if TSMC doesn't have enough capacity to start making nVidia cards while doing ATIs at the moment.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
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And I've had the exact same types of problems with the ATI drivers. Switching to an nVidia card solved the problem. There are a number of factors that might cause these issues with both setups, and since the quality of both is good, it probably doesn't matter which you go with, as long as it works for you.
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