Go Nvidia. AMD was great at one time but that time is not now. Grab a 2500K and a P67 board and get a Nvidia graphics card. I used AMD for years and I've had a Athlon 650, 1GHZ TBird, 2800+, 4800x2, etc. Videocards: 8500, X700, 3870 crossfire, 5770 crossfire, 5870, etc..
The drivers are terrible. Hardware wise AMD offers more ram per dollar but the support isn't there. Nothing like getting a new card than having to use BETA drivers because it is the only stable release.. save yourself a lot of agony and just get Nvidia.
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Started by Klaxon, Jul 17 2012 06:29 AM
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Posted 04 August 2012 - 12:39 AM
I say nVidia.
nVidia just had the huge MWO lan party and probably has given support (in the forms of technical expertise and C-Bills) while AMD is probably too busy trying to keep employees from going to Tim Horton's and playing hockey to get involved.
nVidia just had the huge MWO lan party and probably has given support (in the forms of technical expertise and C-Bills) while AMD is probably too busy trying to keep employees from going to Tim Horton's and playing hockey to get involved.
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Posted 04 August 2012 - 03:06 AM
BDU SKINLESS, on 04 August 2012 - 12:30 AM, said:
Go Nvidia. AMD was great at one time but that time is not now. Grab a 2500K and a P67 board and get a Nvidia graphics card. I used AMD for years and I've had a Athlon 650, 1GHZ TBird, 2800+, 4800x2, etc. Videocards: 8500, X700, 3870 crossfire, 5770 crossfire, 5870, etc..
The drivers are terrible. Hardware wise AMD offers more ram per dollar but the support isn't there. Nothing like getting a new card than having to use BETA drivers because it is the only stable release.. save yourself a lot of agony and just get Nvidia.
The drivers are terrible. Hardware wise AMD offers more ram per dollar but the support isn't there. Nothing like getting a new card than having to use BETA drivers because it is the only stable release.. save yourself a lot of agony and just get Nvidia.
Heh, I just replaced a pair of 5870 cards I was running in crossfireX. I replaced a pair of GTX280 cards I was running in SLI with the first 5870 I bought in Jan 2010. I did not notice any performance drop with that change. I Bought the 2nd 5870 last summer. I've been running the 5870 cards in crossfireX since last summer. Never once had a issue. Yesterday, I replaced the 5870 cards with a single 7970. The 7970 is giving me the same performance I was getting from the 5870 crossfireX set-up.
AMD vs Nvidia, AMD vs Intel, it really doesn't matter which you get. Both are fully capable of making a excellent gaming computer.
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