I built my own gaming pc a while ago, i bought a Nvidia 8800GTS 320MB and it was good, but cmon not for its cost! They are good in quailty but they dont have that power that games desperatly need! After i sold it i then bought a sapphire radeon HD 2600 pro 512mb card, and the difference is unbeleivable! the smoothness, the picture quality, it handles oblivion like its a piece of cake! Nvidia, nothing much to say but overated!
2007-10-21 12:22:06 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
T....i highly doubt it. For professional gaming, you need professional hardware..ie: ATI
2007-10-21 12:28:15 · update #1
sj its all about opinions. I wasnt using lowsy drivers, i think im smart enough to ge tthe best drivers for a card i just bought and installed. Both cards run anything well, only ATI has its originol effects that you just notice and say "ah thats an ati".
2007-10-21 13:35:03 · update #2
You are right, it is all about opinions, and you are entitled to yours, no matter how absurdly ridiculous it is. The 8800GTS will run circles around the HD 2600, that is a plain out proven fact, look at any benchmark and it will show you that. I have no idea what happened in your case, whether you had bad drivers, or you had the settings set incorrectly or what, but those two cards aren't even close. And ATI does not haven any magically features that make games better as you seem to think, they both use DirectX, which is a Microsoft product, or OpenGL.
2007-10-21 15:14:47 · answer #1 · answered by mysticman44 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nVidia has built up quite a reputation for their hardware being easier to work with. ATI's software leaves a lot to be desired. I know I enjoy my X1950 Pro a lot more than my old 6800, but I'd be lying if I said making the ATI card work right was as simple. It took a lot of manual driver tweaking and third party programs to get things at full throttle where the 6800 needed one hacked driver to do everything.
Honestly though, the 8800 series is basically entry level DX10. If a 2600 is outperforming a 8800, there's definitely a system conflict at fault. The HD 2600 offers rather abysmal performance for the price in relation to DX9 cards.
2007-10-21 19:32:36 · answer #2 · answered by Timothy M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The latest drivers have done wonders for the GTS cards.
Althou the 2600 you have has 512MB its only running DDR2 thru a 128bit memory bus and a 320 MB GTS running DDR3 thru a 320bit memory bus is going to stomp that 2600 card bad unless youre running ultra-high resolutions but it will still perform better. I have an XFX 640MB 8800GTS D4(fastest clocked GTS made) and it will destroy any 2600Pro or XT made. You either had a bad GTS card or were running lousy drivers. I'm an ATI fan but the only card ATI makes that will beat an O/C'd 640 MB GTS is their 1GB 2900XT.
2007-10-21 19:45:00 · answer #3 · answered by s j 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nvidia is not as overrated as you might think. nvidia's cards have a much higher clock rate then alot of ati's cards. also, look at when you bought the GTS. a while ago..... the 320 GTS is now less than 300. the 640 GTS performs much better at stock.
You might also want to take a look at the high end cards of each company. the nvidia geforce 8800GTX is much better than any ati radeon card.
2007-10-21 19:27:03 · answer #4 · answered by T 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have one 8600 GTS for like $120 and it runs oblivion in HDR and highest quality on a 1280x1024 res. NVidia is on my nerves with an sli problem, though, but I've have many rigs over the years and NVidia has been good to me
2007-10-21 19:26:24 · answer #5 · answered by Boberson 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fan boy
2007-10-21 19:31:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋