Buying a new Gaming PC

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Originally Posted by Blix

I'm currently an ATI user. I am thinking of going with Nvidia because I always hear that their drivers are better and that they manage to mantain better FPS with higher Anti-aliasing. The 6950 (as far as I've heard) is where it's at. But at least up there, the competition is pretty close. I've heard that the 6850 is the best bang for your buck if you don't want to spend too much and that's $200 or less. I'm doing my research on Nvidia's cards but I haven't had much time. I know that Ati has problems in games like Dirt 3 where the drivers made the sun and the lighting be pink or something like that. But when Crysis 2 runs the way it should on Nvidia but had a significant performance problem on Ati cards, I really started believing what some dedicated PC builders were telling my about Nvidia and how it did some things better.

Overall it seems both companies have their strengths and weaknesses. I might change my mind back but I want to try the Nvidia cards next time. I'm buying a new card at the end of the year ( I hope) since i need a card that's DX11 ready and my 4890 is holding me back on that matter.

The drivers thing is probably an issue cause I'm sure I've heard about things like that from ATi users, but you also have to understand that when games are coded specifically for nVidia cards, it's all marketing bullshit. How can you expect things to run perfectly when you're not doing your job as a developer and making games that run well on all hardware, driver issues aside? There's a money thing happening behind the scenes, I'm sure of it. Why else would games be marketed with nVidia as "the way it's meant to be played"?

I have friends that are currently ATi users and they haven't had issues running anything current so who knows. I just don't like paying a lot of money for cards that can run just as well for something that costs almost twice as much.