i7 or AM3

[redspear]

CaseyDDR said:

nojustno said:

Mudface said:
Give it another 6-12 months before going for an i7. In the meantime if you need to buy, look for bargains amongst the Core 2's.

I just wish AMD (and ATI) had something to match the Intel/ nVidia stranglehold, but they're way off the pace at the moment.

What?

You do know ATI's on top this gen for having unbeatable price:performance right?  And don't ignore the fact that AMD's ATI division is making profit (though barely) and Nvidia is losing hundreds of millions of dollars each quarter.

In any case, the situation is not comparable to the AMD/Intel one

 

ATI is NOT on top. Are you crazy? They do have good value for performance, but they are still a few steps below Nvidia, and their drivers are HORRIBLE in comparison.

 

ATI's Cards have been very favorable this gen especially when factoring in price. In fact they forced Nvidia to drop the price of their GTX280.

As for Drivers. That is an old complaint. It is kind of like complaing that nintendo uses carts..In other words I haven't heard of many issues with drivers about ATI in the past year or so.

ATI gives more bang for the buck even in the higher in the higher end of things. Also the perform better with stream processors than Nvida cards do even with all the work that went into CUDA.

I also have noticed that ATI cards have worked better with High Def video than most Nvidia cards.

That said Nvidia makes a hell of a nice CS4 accelerator and they are coming out with a GCPU soon which looks awesome and the GTX 300 is supposed ot be something special in terms of stream processing as well.