Which video card is best?

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Mazty said:

ssj12 said:

Haste262 said:

ssj12 said:

Galaki said:

Everybody here uses this,

sorry, I use this =]

 

with a possible step-up in 72 days to this

 

or the GTX 475/485 if respin rumors are true

I have to say. Horrible cards.

for what reason? so far im quite impressed with my GTX470SC. I have yet to see a heating issue. My GPU running Crysis maxed sits at about 80c. Its called actually having good cooling in your case. Reviewers have to use some pretty badly cooled cases inorder for them to even see those load temps. Fan noise? I've tested it at 95% fan speed. Its not that load at all. My 9600GT was loader at 95%. Cost, yes it was a bit pricy. At least I know I have EVGA's customer support which is one of the best in the industry. Performance, they are the fastest single GPU cards on the market, and since I use folding@home, their performance is amazing there as well.

@flow - I've been burned way to many times by ATI's piss poor support and quality. AMD might have saved them but, idc, ive had more than a dozen GPUs burn out in under 3 months. I never had an issue with Nvidia cards. I will buy AMD processors, hence this PC running an 7750be, but still will never touch AMD/ATI GPUs.

 

It'll be interesting to see how cooling is after a month or more of heavy use. Simpyl put ATI have won this generation, mainly due to the fact they have their own production plant and have no issue dishing out 40nm products and are even moving onto 28nm products for ARM.

The Fermi chip was never designed to be a good graphics card and clearly it naturally isn't. The clock speeds are downright bizarre, hot temps and rediculous power consumption. Plus with less than 10k chips out, it seems the card is having low yields, which has really battered Nvidias stock.

A chip that was focused on HPC was never going to wow the graphics world, and this card certainly hasn't. ATI's single chip cards may be a little bit weaker in some games, but they are cheaper, cooler and less power hungry. Plus there is no way in hell there is going to be a double chip GF100 card anytime soon considering the power the GTX480 needs, and the cooling with it being the first ever GPU to have heat pipes on the stock model.

I usually go with ATI these days because of power draw vs price vs performance, the power draw of DX11 cards in between ATI and Nvidia are really far apart right now and ATI easily takes the cake on that front especially in 2+ card situations.

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