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Shonos · Local time: Jul 4, 2006, 02:01 PM

Don't forget that lately Nvidia has been passing ATI in the media arena. Usually it was ATI that was better in regards to visual quality with movies and the likes. But with Nvidia's current cards they have caught up and surpassed ATI in some areas. And I've heard you cant get HQ DVD playback with Crossfire for some reason. But don't quote me on that.

Oh, and while ATI's best cards do offer AA/AF + HDR it's incredibly slow with both enabled. You still might as well just choose one or the other like you're forced to with Nvidia cards. So the whole thing is pretty much moot unless you're OK with playing games at 5-20FPS with AA/AF + HDR enabled.

ATI's cards also seem to do better at HDR than NVidia's cards. Nvidia is slow in comparison when you flip HDR on.

But Nvidia STILL has the advantage over ATI in regards to OpenGL. Don't ask me why ATI continues to come out with shit OpenGL drivers. If you plan to play more OpenGL based games you might want to go with Nvidia. If not I would go with ATI. Unless you have the cash to grab a 7950 GX2.

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Nvidia holds the single card crown with the new 7950 GX2 (dual-core GPU). It requires an SLI mobo (I believe) and kills any other single card by alot. This card is also $699 or so.

If I remember right I'm pretty sure the 7950 GX2 can run in any PCIe board. It doesn't need to be SLI ready. It can even run under an ATI chipset.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Shonos · Local time: Jul 9, 2006, 04:39 PM

I always thought the point of SLI/Crossfire was to buy a great card now and down the line when it's replaced by the new top end card you can buy the same model for much cheaper and match the performance of that high end card with the two old ones.

Or buying two top end cards now so thier performance lasts longer for you than the single top end card that gets replaced in a month by something better.

There's nowhere I can't reach.