ATI- or NVidia-based cards?

Hi everyone
I know everyone has their favorites, especially when it comes to performance.
Performance isn't that important to me. Reliability and relative quiet is.
I'm considering getting one of the Frozr cards from MSI, but would like to know whether ATI or NVidia-based cards tend to have the least crashes and stability issues. I have no intention of overclocking the card.
thanks!

Quote from: Froggy Gremlin on 24-February-14, 09:46:44
Yup! Win 7 is a good one. Might try 9 after some time has passed after it's release to see what gives with it.
Still would like to know the chipset it will be used with. Can make a difference. Anyway, I have used nothing but nVidia ever since the 2xx series was released, with one exception which I sold the bundled AMD card that came with a special release of the BBX II mainboard. GTX 295's, 460's, 480's, and 680's. All still work to this day. I also prefer to purchase reference editions.
X58 chipset/i920 CPU (Asus P6T Deluxe V2, to be specific)...my current 4 year old GTX 260 (also an MSI Frozr) started acting up in recent months (at least I think it's the video card at this point), and I've tried every other fix other than replacing the video card (new drivers, new PS, played with the power saving options, removed various MS patches, no dice), so looking at the options out there.

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- Starting Arch Linux on runlevel 1
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Thanks in advance and have a nice day,
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Hm, I'd try to put the nvidia card out and to plug the gfx cable into the socket of your onboard graphics chip, if any.
Then boot into runlevel 3 (text mode) and uninstall the ati drivers. Poweroff, put your nv-card in, boot and install Xorg and the appropriate nvidia driver (just follow the wikis).
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ATI or NVIDIA ?

First of all, Happy New Year !
Ok now, the reason I opened this thread is to get an opinion with fellow forummers on this question which people have been asking me.
" Which is better, ATI or NVIDIA ? "
And I answered that if we are comparing these two, we need to look at how to evaluate, in terms of Value? , Performance ?, and so on..
If we look at value, ATI 4 Series apart from the4870x2, have been priced at a very reasonable figure and its price to performace ratio is very worth it.
But if we look at performance,NVIDIA's gtx200 series have shaken the earth with its new gtx295, but of course the gtx295 is the ultra high performance card which not everyone can afford. In the computer market as a whole, the one that ATI and NVIDIA will give extra attention is to the mainstream line because it holds the more percentage of user worldeide over enthusiast class user.
And if we are comparing to, we need to look at what kind of games that we are going to campare on.For ATI, of course they have an advantage if they benchmark on Half Life 2 because the game was programmed to bring the best out of ATI gpu's and the same for GTA series which was programmed best fo NVIDIA.
So ladies and gentlemen, what say you ?

Yeah but when it comes to resolution etc, it is down to the monitor ie: DVI,HDMI or VGA ?
From my point of view, I choose ATI because of the price to performance ratio as considering that not all of us are Donald Trump.
For performance yes I choose NVIDIA but nowadays, it is not down to performance anymore when we want to compare products.As a whole ATI won.

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hepatica,
there is a repair program in place stating that should the GPU fail as a result of the defect, your warranty will be extended to two years and the repair will be free of charge. if you happen to get applecare, it's free of charge to fix anyways.
the support article also says that the affected models were manufactured between may 2007 and september 2008.
that being said, i don't think all of the 8600M GTs are defective. should a repair be necessary at this point (or a year from now, when the GPU usually fails for most people who have had it fail), i can confidently say that it would be replaced with a revised chip since nvidia has corrected the problem this past summer (as stated by another poster). the new revision should be free from the defect.
apple would not put in a different GPU (eg: the 9600M GT) than the one it came with.
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Please help :) Error Ray-tracing on the GPU requires an approved NVIDIA graphics card and CUDA 5.0.

Hi All, if anyone can help me fix this error I will be most aprreciative.
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I have this warning come up, too. And when I close it, the program crashes. I can't get it to work without it.
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ATI ou NVidia

I'm considering buying a new desktop, but I'm not very familiar with the performance of ATI and NVidia cards. I'm going to prefer to use xf86-video-ati or xf86-video-nouveau. So do either of these open-source drivers produce particularly better performance than the other on similarly stacked ATI or NVidia cards.

The ATI open source driver is far better than the nvidia open source driver, see
http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a … ison&num=1
Greetings,
matse
Edit: When it comes to proprietary drivers it's the other way around
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Hi there,
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