GeoForce or Radeon

[David E. Gervais]

Originally posted by Karibu:
That is a sad story, David. However, you are entitled to compensation.

Perhaps, but am I intereted? Not one bit. If they offered me a new computer system to go with the card I'd say "No." Replace my 'Lost' ATI? No thanks. Nothing they say or do will ever change my opinion of them. There loss not mine. You know the old saying, Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. Well, this is one cat you can't skin twice.

I have several friends with ATI cards and they have had no problems. (one of my friends had the exact same problem as me, a resistor fell off, but he is an electronic technician by profession and he simply re-soldered it on the card and that fixed his problem.) 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.

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XX marks the approximate spot where the loose trasistors were on both my friends card and mine.

Anyway, It's all history now. I'd much rather look to the future. (And I know that SEV is a part of my future, so I'm very happy. )

Nuf said, Cheers!

[Karibu]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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).

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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]

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.