ThunderMace
12-14-2007, 06:22 PM
Recently I acquired a Radeon 9800 Pro from a friend.
I was replacing a Nvidia 6600LE which (because of it’s design) was underperforming.
Random lockups ensued when I put the Radeon card in. Games looked great, but would lock eventually, sometimes with a system crash.
Also many newer games would not play with the older card. Recently Crytek released the demo for their new game, Crysis. Now Crysis is the most graphically intensive game ever produced, bar none. I played part of the demo with the occasional lockup. Well, maybe it’s the card, says I.
So I gets a new Radeon X1650.
Now, despite 4 different drivers and it’s own rail on my 450 watt power supply, it still locks up after 5-10 minutes. Now granted, the game looks gorgeous for those 5-10 minutes, but if you can’t play any game, then what good is a video card? :mad:
So at 2am I put my old Nvidia card back in and the game would play- it looked like a$$- but it would play.
I RMA’d the Radeon card and bought a NVidia 7600, and haven’t had the first problem. That’s why Nvidia is going to win in the end unfortunately, because ATI’s driver support has always been crap.
It doesn’t matter how nice stuff looks if you can’t play it.
It's a shame too, really, because I *want* to support the 'small two' (AMD and ATI) because we'll all be paying out the wazoo if it's just Intel and Nvidia.
I was replacing a Nvidia 6600LE which (because of it’s design) was underperforming.
Random lockups ensued when I put the Radeon card in. Games looked great, but would lock eventually, sometimes with a system crash.
Also many newer games would not play with the older card. Recently Crytek released the demo for their new game, Crysis. Now Crysis is the most graphically intensive game ever produced, bar none. I played part of the demo with the occasional lockup. Well, maybe it’s the card, says I.
So I gets a new Radeon X1650.
Now, despite 4 different drivers and it’s own rail on my 450 watt power supply, it still locks up after 5-10 minutes. Now granted, the game looks gorgeous for those 5-10 minutes, but if you can’t play any game, then what good is a video card? :mad:
So at 2am I put my old Nvidia card back in and the game would play- it looked like a$$- but it would play.
I RMA’d the Radeon card and bought a NVidia 7600, and haven’t had the first problem. That’s why Nvidia is going to win in the end unfortunately, because ATI’s driver support has always been crap.
It doesn’t matter how nice stuff looks if you can’t play it.
It's a shame too, really, because I *want* to support the 'small two' (AMD and ATI) because we'll all be paying out the wazoo if it's just Intel and Nvidia.