Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 SLI vs. ATI Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

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because they're afraid someone will quote them and blow them out of the water, so to speak.

Who cares if it is 9 month old tech. It is their tech that is out today. Do they have anything newer to bench against? That's what I thought.

....Tonight we have a special guest who will perform a one man argument

ATI drivers have always been bad. Even if Nvidia had slower cards I would go Nvidia because i know it will work in a new and old game. ATI drivers have problems in new games and sometimes it takes them over 9 months to correct it and by that time people have moved on to other games again with new driver problems with ATI.

"Danger Will Robinson!...Danger"

You should know the perils of drivers by now red...
True story ! I just updated my nVidia driver to 196.75 AND updated my Creative Soundblaster driver...next thing you know, I'm a widower, the dog has lost his eyesight, a passerby suffered shrapnel wounds and I'm the subject of an upcoming heart-rending Oprah special....and my house....well, just look at it!

^^^^^^:haha::haha::haha: ROFL

well at least it was an Nvidia driver you downloaded there Chef, so the insurance adjuster will be there tomorrow. Had it been an ATI driver, they wouldn't be there for nine months.

I love ATI's hardware but I can never buy their cards as the games I play, my MMO of choice is City of Heroes and is over 5 years old now, and ATI still is having driver problems. I just like my stuff to work so until ATI steps up the driver support I will always be forced to buy Nvidia, and that sucks as they charge for that extra stability their drivers give a gamer.

Never said ati enthusiasts were eco-crusaders, but some people here say that the difference between one an other's power consuptiom isn't relevant, so I made a power usage comparison just to make a simplier way to see the effect. I wasn't talking about how expensive your bill would come. Bad? Acceptable? Did I mean that?

Who knows gr, although I'd equate it with "Not so enviroment-friendly" as in...

...and since you are pulling the "enviroment-friendly" card, I'll tar you with the same brush that seems to pervade the AMD-nVidia fanboy debate; namely that one side will use whatever argument best fits their narrow-minded bandwagon-jumping pseudo-ideology...so for nV*****s its "red team.... driver sux/doesn't have CUDA or PhysX/crappy minimum framerates/bad linux support" yada yada...and for the Association of Mental Defectives it's green team...late/bad architecture/too hot to handle/power hog/expensive" etc.,etc.
So in this case we have the trite analogy of the power saving equivalent of ten lightbulbs while gaming in relation to a graphics system that costs upwards of $US800...you may as well be referencing CO2 emissions to John Force and Tony Pedregon
That is to say that power savings (or usage) come way, way down the list of priorities for people running multi-GPU enthusiast graphics, likewise how many people with enthusiast motherboards and graphics laden with extra copper and gold give a damn about enviromental pollution regarding mining of these metals?

Think before you troll...

This of course begs the following questions,

Hmmm, if you never buy their cards...how do you know? and if they don't work, why would you "love them"? Don't get me wrong...its an interesting perspective, cuz most people have no desire to purchase items that don't work properly.

Boilerplate alert! It mat interest you to know that millions are gaming on ATI cards and not having the problems you are on your GeForce 6200.

Gosh...so do I Darn it!

Oh dear!, don't ya hate that?

This one was C&P right of of the Nvidia web site was it?
and off course silly! we all love the creamy goodness of that "extra stability" that they give unto the gamer......yikes :rolleyes:

You realize of course there is a ' off topic' forum right? you could maybe talk about how much you really want a Ford, but gosh darn it! the wheels fall off.

This is the best post concerning fanboidum I've seen, ever.

Wow ! 28 fps at Max detail @ 8xAA and DX10....that's AWESUM....how about including a (missing) link ?.....and since that's NOT going to happen, I'm calling bs.


FYI Crossfired 5870's would have trouble posting 28fps at 4xAA let alone 8xAA

There should be some sort of captcha (is that what they're called? Those pictures with a stealthy string of numbers hidden?) to prevent spam, shouldn't there?
Of course, only for the guest since I don't really want to have to deal with it .

These cards are meant for DX11 not DX10
At DX11 the difference does not equate the power and cost
You don't buy ferraris and then use unleaded gas (if you can find it

If you think this is biased then give us some facts or more information so that we can understand why you feel that way.

I love walls...but not of text .

guest, what on earth are you rambling about? that was completely incomprehensible and made no sense whatsoever.