ATI or Nvdia?

[AMD-USR_JL]

Hey, my computer is messed up. For a while now (month) windows has been just randomly freezing, and if i left it on longer than 3 hours any game i played would be all pixely. At first i thought i didn't have a big enough power supply, and so i took out a couple fans, but it still continued to freeze. The day before yesterday i had a BSD (Blue Screen of Death) it said my video card had gotten stuck in an infinite loop while running nothing but the windows GUI. It took me a couple tries to get the gui to come on. Today it froze again, so i restarted it, but couldn't get any gui to load. I left it off for some hours and i tried it again, and this time i got a big gray screen, then it faded to black. I can still hear the windows boot up music though. :D Does that sound to you like a video card messing up? If it does, then should i go with an ATI or Nvdia card? I had an ATI before (x700).

[Lagu]

I had ATI when the computer was new but lather when I began to run Boinc it freeze many times as forced me to reboot.

Now I have NVIDIA Geforce 6600 and this graphis card never caused any issue.

Lagu

[gamer007]

For me, I don't have a preference. I just choose whats the best bang for the buck.

My X700 is doing me well so far. My last X9600XT did me well, no problems with it. And my past Nvidia Geforce 4 MX440 was perfectly fine as well.


It's like what people say about Maxtor. I've never had a problem with the hard drives, and 4/5 people hate it, as if they are just joining the bandwagon to hate Maxtor. :?

[BlackAdder]

I've got both GeForce and Radeon cards in my computers, I don't see much difference between them. You can get a ATI X1600 Pro AGP card, 512 memory, on ebay for just over 100 bucks...I got one about two months ago to replace my 9800 Pro card. It benches about twice as fast and runs Quake4 very smooth... that seems to me to a very good buy as they sell at Best Buy for 249... :D It does seem to be your video card by your description.

[AMD-USR_JL]

Thanks for all the help guys.
I ended up getting a Geforce 7900GT with 256MB GDDR3 ram, 24 pixel pipelines and PCI-E 16x from newegg.com. I was going to go SLI and get two slower, cheaper cards, but my mobo doesn't support SLI :-( I got a regular one instead of a overclocked one, because a lot of people who got the overclocked one had them die on them.

[gamer007]

If you go for SLI, it's been said you should only get SLI for the best of the best (or at least the high end cards). I doubt anyone will want 2 6600GTs in SLI when they can get 2 7800's. :twisted:

For me, I'm just waiting for the DX10 cards to come out and see my choices. :)

[PcManiac]

Thanks for all the help guys.
I ended up getting a Geforce 7900GT with 256MB GDDR3 ram, 24 pixel pipelines and PCI-E 16x from newegg.com. I was going to go SLI and get two slower, cheaper cards, but my mobo doesn't support SLI :-( I got a regular one instead of a overclocked one, because a lot of people who got the overclocked one had them die on them.

Good choice! the card I want next is the 7950, it has dual GPUs on each card ... and then you SLi that!!!

[AMD-USR_JL]

Yea, i saw that 7950 too. It was $550!

[spikey_richie]

I have an nVidia 6800 LE, before that an 6600 GT and before that a 5200 FX. nVidia chipset on my mobo... so I guess nVidia for me :)

[AMD-USR_JL]

I got it up and running! :D I went from 5831 3D MARK score to 18081 :D

[Empty_5oul]

is that with the same other components just the graphics card changed?

i know 3D mark is mainly dependent on the graphics card but that is an amazing increase.

[AMD-USR_JL]

Yea, all i changed was the card. :D

[PcManiac]

that is huge! what 3d marks was that? 03? I don't think 06, but maybe 05...

[AMD-USR_JL]

03