Ati Vs Nvidia Vs Other, What's Better? Options

[InSyNeTxZ]

I was wondering what do you think is the better price, quality, perfomance etc graphic card brand?

My personal thoughts that Nvidia is better for they are much cheaper where ati just crank up the prices and have just a little better performance.

Your thoughts???

[InSyNeTxZ]

Hmm yes... well like a said i think that Nvidia is better and at the moment i have a Nvidia GeForce 7800 Gt with a nForce 4 sli mother board. by the way whats the difference between a normal and sli?

and i have an Amd chip aswell (2.4ghz) but ive been to the wesites saying that pentium has combined with nvidia and amd combined with ati, is that correct? and then wouldnt ati work better with amd chips and vice versa?

[beeslol]

Hmm yes... well like a said i think that Nvidia is better and at the moment i have a Nvidia GeForce 7800 Gt with a nForce 4 sli mother board. by the way whats the difference between a normal and sli?

Basically you get two of the same card and hook them up as SLI, gives you a huge performance increase, more video ram, processing power etc and even the opportunity to hook up more monitors (although I'm happy with two myself, I'd have to put my printer elsewhere to have a 3rd).

But to compare the two strains of cards is kinda difficult as they'd have to be able to pull off the same tricks such as similar HDR modes and so on.
In some things my 6600GT out-performs the x1600, but that's because it's physically got more grunt such as memory bandwidth (GDDR3 clocked currently at 1035 up from 900) and a different layout of pipelines.
But with newer stuff requiring techniques the GF6x00 series doesn't have his kicks arse.

Basically his also has the advantage of having a dualcore p4 compared to my '3000+' but I still manage to keep up.