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Reply #30 - 11.05.09 at 12:36:58

Tim wrote on 10.05.09 at 00:11:53:

I think we all have got a little brand preference in us. But I can honestly say that I don't care much anymore. I do have a slight preference for nVidia though.

I perfered ATI for years (9800 and x850 series) but after driver hell known as Catalyst Control Panel and the rediculous problems with trying to drive a HDTV panel with an ATI board I gave up and went over to the dark side.

Been pretty good ever since.

Rampage is alive!

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Reply #31 - 11.05.09 at 12:40:23

I really am still suprised how many people report to having problems with ATI drivers, I never ever had any problems with them, aside from, but I don't think that is driver related, the sporadic VPU recover.

I have had:

9500Pro
9700Pro
9800XT
X800XL
X1950XT
HD4870

And they were put on rigs, with Via chipsets, nForce 2, 3 and 4 and now on AMD/ATI chipset and I have used the ATI drivers since way back, never had any problem.

3DFX Playrig:

Aerocool Strike-X Air
SuperMicro H8DAE
Dual Opteron 280 @ 2.4Ghz (4 cores)
4 x 1GB PC3200
3DFX Voodoo5 5500MAC PCI
WD 160GB ATA100/133
Diamond MonsterSound MX300
Windows2000 SP4

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Reply #32 - 11.05.09 at 19:47:49

I've gotta say that I've stuck with ATI after 3dfx went under along with AMD and when AMD bought out ATI, it was a ++ for me. I realize there's been a lot of complaint about ATI drivers and when I had my x1950 Pro AGP I did have some issues at first but they were fixed pretty quickly.

Since building my newer system (last spring) I couldn't be happier though. Running a 9850 BE quad, 2x 3870 Toxic cards and haven't had any issues what so ever.

Even the Win 7 Beta drivers are already incorporated into the 9.3/9.4 drivers and haven't had any issues with that either. For me, it's just a personal choice to stick with them.

Jand.

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