s3xynanigoat said:Yeah that IC7 board is sweet. I got one with a prescott 3.0e HTT. 2 gigs ram, 2x raptor in Raid 0, 9800pro AGP 128mb. It runs super fast with no overclocking what so ever. PLays any game out there with ease also. That set up you got should be good for awhile, all you really need is that 7800 and a Raid 0 now.
compres said:you guys are all the time suggesting nVidia cards in this board, i dont know what exactly is going on here, but ATI cards are better in many situations, and somehow you guys fail to recomend them 100% of the time.
DonNagual said:Things come and go in waves. A year ago, I was an ATI fan. The 9800 cards in their time where the best then, nvidia was left in the dust for a long time. Even when the X800 line first came out, that was where my money was going. They were the best at the time.
But for me, lately I rarely recommend the ATI cards, as it just seems that recenly nvidia is kicking their ****. At the low-mid end, you are comparing the X800 cards to the 6600GT - 6800Gt cards. With the ATI cards you don't get the pixel shader support. If you look at the benchmarks here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/02/vga_charts_viii/index.html
and compare the cards, in most cases the nvidia cards are beating out the ATI rivals.
Don't worry. It'll all likely change, and ATI will once again take the upper hand (if they haven't already with that sweet X1900 lineup).
compres said:On the other hand, right now with the x1900 series, Ati owns the high end, both in speed and image quality, and many say their shader model 3.0 suport is also superior(fast dinamic branching). Lets not forget ATI supports HDR + AA and nVidia does not on current products. What I mean is that your shader support and features argument fails in the new high end and some mid range(x1xx series).
@ Socrates, 10 Frames Per Second in a FPS game is huge, maybe not so much in an MMORPG