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Soleron on 13 May 2009
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bardicverse said:
Soleron said:
bardicverse said:
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Hopefully unlikely, that would be terrible. I cant stand AMD products, and I find it unacceptable how they tanked the quality of ATI graphics cards since they took over.

Can you be more specific? AMD's current chips are just as reliable as Intel (if you don't think so then please link) and are priced competitively, and the same for ATI except they aren't having packaging issues.

 

Im not sure how to be specific on an opinion and link it. =) I've been a computer technician since the days of 486 machines, and have just had a lot of displeasure with AMD systems over the years.

As for ATI's cards, since AMD took over, the drivers have become a lot more questionable in stability and true compatibility, whereas Nvidia has become sort of an industry benchmark for computer gaming. Some engines choke on Ati cards, no matter how powerful they are, where they run smoothly on an Nvidia card. The AMD/ATI hassle has become a thorn in the side of many people leasing game engines.

 

Please find one news article, developer blog or benchmark that shows that recent AMD or ATI cards or drivers are unstable, "choke", or are otherwise a problem. You won't be able to, because I assure you the problems no longer exist. Indeed, Nvidia is the one causing people leasing game engines issues as they refuse to adopt DirectX 10.1 which ATI has since 2007.

AMD had poor motherboard support in the 486 days because they didn't make their own motherboards. Since they bought ATI their chipsets have been very reliable - I haven't seen a single negative review of one. I have seen plenty stating that Nvidia motherboards run too hot and that, as I linked, Nvidia graphics cards fail due to heat issues.