Originally posted by StormBringer
I'm wondering why everyone avoinded your question entirely. You ask about for advice between two cards and they give you completely unrelated answers. Come on guys, this was multiple choice, and you all completely avoided it. While you guys have good points, it was not what he asked.
Anyway, what kind of things do you do with your PC? What types of games, etc...
Well, you didn't answer his Q either, but rather re-stated one of my Q's....
I didn't recommend either of them, as it all depends on what he wants to use it for...
The GF4 ti4200 is the faster of the two, but if he'd like to get into DX9 programming/pixel&vertex shader programming, he'll be better off with the FX...
And I asked about the 9600pro, as it isn't that much more expensive, and will give him a better performance than the other two cards...
JimShady23>Lol... You think this is a very pro-ATI thread? 1 person asked if he had thought about buying an ATI card, one said he had one and that it was very good, and a third said the 9600xt was "sweet"...
We all have our favourite companies (like you say), but most of us try to give advice regardless of that...
As far as the PCI-Express part... I'm sorry, but I think you're way off the mark here...
If you take a look
here, you'll see a bit info about ATI and PCI-Express (and the fact that ATI allready has working hardware for PCI-Express)...
When it comes to the AMD&Nvidia deal, well, couldn't that be something about Nvidia's nextgen chipset? As I doubt AMD is going to alienate all the ATI users...
You said that those of us who prefer ATI should go with Intel... Why? Because they've been on top the last year?
If so, then why aren't all older Nvidia users on Intel? Nvidia was the market leader for several years before ATI got their act together.... (They held the top from around the first Geforce until the end of the GF4 era)
Anyways, sorry for going so OT, but just wanted to make a couple of points...