ATI or Nvidia

But I don't like Play Station!

I got the Benchmarks from PC Gamer. The NVidia board beat the ATI board pretty soundly in most of the Benchmarks. I still like the ATI board better, though.

hybrid-sniper wrote: But I don't like Play Station! I got the Benchmarks from PC Gamer. The NVidia board beat the ATI board pretty soundly in most of the Benchmarks. I still like the ATI board better, though.

But everyone loves Playstation!

PC Gamers benchmarks are really close and if you take time to read, it says "ATI wins this one by a 12 volt..."

And it recieves a 93% and nVidia 90%.

I always prefer ATI it's always single-slot cards over nVidia, it's a preference because both are always close by.

Sammy wrote: O yea do you guys think i should blow the money on a X800, or should i just get a 9800 xt for now. Also will the 9800 xt run half life 2? Thanks

Half Life 2's Release Date is TBA (At least according to Game Spot), so I'd wait on buying a board. Heck, it may not come out for another year and a half, and any board available today would likely be obsolete. I would wait.

Sammy wrote: The Nvidia only has 1 more feature than the X800xt, and its some sort of shader. But theres only 1 game right now that cam take advanatge of it, Far cry. So i honestly dont see the point of 2 pci slots, extra power supply, and an extra 100 bucks. Now the 6800 gt might be worth it though..

That's not true, nVidias features can't be realised until DirectX 9.0c or sometihng like that. ATI has a different system of shaders, which surpesses Geforece's. Once again it's all preference because the human eye can not recieve that many FPS, so a 5 or 10 Frame diffrence will not make an impact.

hybrid-sniper wrote: Sammy wrote: O yea do you guys think i should blow the money on a X800, or should i just get a 9800 xt for now. Also will the 9800 xt run half life 2? Thanks Half Life 2's Release Date is TBA, so I'd wait on buying a board. Heck, it may not come out for another year and a half, and any board available today would likely be obsolete. I would wait.

Sorry to break your heart but the realese date is Sept. 30, 2004. Kinda funny, that was last year's release date. Straight out of Valve, but you can't trust them, you can trsut ID cause thats the only date they have given us.

I think HL-2 will be relasesed October the latest, but will be gold, Spetember.

9800 Pro and XT are the same thing, exept for clock speeds which make no difference in games like Doom 3 and others to come. Because those games use parts of your card that no other games do, you cant not overclock those parts.

I say get the X800 right before Half Lifes realses, by then it should be cheaper and might still bundle HF2.