GeoForce or Radeon

Karibu · #1 June 5th, 2004, 09:15 PM

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Originally posted by David E. Gervais:
BTW: the resistor that fell off did not prevent his computer from running, but he could not run any 3D games. they would simply crash to desktop or cause his computer to reboot. If this sounds like problems that you have, you might want to check if a transistor is missing from the graphic card.

That is clearly my problem. Those games I mentioned, crashed on desktop and sometimes rebooted my computer. Thanks for advice, David. I'll check my card for missing/faulty transistors.

btw. What means "Nuf said"?

[ June 05, 2004, 20:39: Message edited by: Karibu ]

kerensky · #2 June 5th, 2004, 10:08 PM

Personally, I would prefer a Radeon over a GeForce because I have had better experience with them. Right now I run a GeForce 4 64mb card (got it for free so I can't complain), but it has driver incompatibility issues with certain games, mostly Mechwarriors.

Sivran · #3 June 5th, 2004, 10:12 PM

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Originally posted by kerensky:
Personally, I would prefer a Radeon over a GeForce because I have had better experience with them. Right now I run a GeForce 4 64mb card (got it for free so I can't complain), but it has driver incompatibility issues with certain games, mostly Mechwarriors.

Interesting, because nVidia whores their cards out to game developers to make damn sure their cards work. Though I have heard of a few horror stories with the FX 5xxxx series, I've heard a *lot* more ATI horror stories.

Alneyan · #4 June 5th, 2004, 10:17 PM

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Originally posted by Karibu:
btw. What means "Nuf said"?

It is a shortened form of "Enough said", and it may also be spelled "Nuff" (Well, "spelled" isn't quite the right word here though. But I shouldn't be digressing).

Aiken · #5 June 6th, 2004, 06:18 AM

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Originally posted by Alneyan:

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Originally posted by Karibu:
btw. What means "Nuf said"?

It is a shortened form of "Enough said", and it may also be spelled "Nuff" (Well, "spelled" isn't quite the right word here though. But I shouldn't be digressing).

Oh, thanks for explanation Alneyan, because I used to think it was the quote from "Three piglets" tale, about piglets whose names were Nif-Nif, Nuf-Nuf and Noof-Noof

Fire · #6 June 8th, 2004, 11:17 PM

I bought a ATI 8500LE to use with Mechwarrior Online play. Huge mistake. I thought I would get a much better frame rate but the only thing I got was a computer lock up every time I connected to mechwarrior Online games. It also would lock up whenever I would connect to the internet also. The only way to get out of the lock up was to reboot my computer. I tried all the drivers, upgraded my bios, read all the files on this card, tried to contact ATI support(big joke), but I finally solved the problem by going out & buying a g force video card. It works great. I will never buy another ATI product again & I would recommend that everyone stay away from ATI products. I have heard this opinion from a bunch of different sources. ATI is putting out some real junk.

Ragnarok · #7 June 9th, 2004, 02:35 PM

ATI can be a decent card but we use nothing but Nvidia here at work. We bought some new computers that had ATI Radeon 9xxx and they were junk. So we bought brand new Nvidia's and they run perfectly. I will never run a ATI card in a work environment and probably never at home either.