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Tiretool · 09-30-2001, 09:14 PM

It's hard to go wrong with a GeForce 3 card nowdays. I don't know of a company that strays far from NVidia's reference design for the card itself, and PNY has sold memory at the local Office Depot and Comp USA for I don't know how long. They are a respected manufacturer.

All the quarrels about ATI "this" and GeForce 3 "that" are purely subjective. (At least as far as picture quality goes.) Bottom line is, at the moment the GeForce 3 is the fastest kid on the block. NVidia has produced the fastest kid on the block in video for quite some time now. The whole "ATI's picture quality beats any NVidia card's quality" claim is purely opinion and is very likely based on people's desire to "root" for the underdog (ATI at the moment). I honestly can't see a difference between the two card's 2D picture quality. I truly don't think there is a noticable difference. I've had very good luck and performance from NVidia products so I still ride on the NVidia Bandwagon. And the fact that they make the fastest video card for a non-professional computer (by this I mean "not for doing CAD, and making computer graphics for TV and movies etc.) helps me stay on that bandwagon. If it weren't for NVidia's progress in the computer graphics industry, we might well still be playing crap 2D side scrolling games like Galaxian and Mario Brothers.

And... ATI will still be there when NVidia and S3 are dead? I wouldn't hold your breath until NVidia's gone. You'll be quite blue I'm afraid before that time comes. nForce chipsets are on motherboards now and are getting good reviews. I doubth this will hurt NVidia's future. Where's the ATI chipset for motherboards?

09-30-2001, 09:14 PM	#7
Tiretool Member (12 bit) Join Date: Jul 1999 Location: Shreveport, LA Posts: 2,119	It's hard to go wrong with a GeForce 3 card nowdays. I don't know of a company that strays far from NVidia's reference design for the card itself, and PNY has sold memory at the local Office Depot and Comp USA for I don't know how long. They are a respected manufacturer. All the quarrels about ATI "this" and GeForce 3 "that" are purely subjective. (At least as far as picture quality goes.) Bottom line is, at the moment the GeForce 3 is the fastest kid on the block. NVidia has produced the fastest kid on the block in video for quite some time now. The whole "ATI's picture quality beats any NVidia card's quality" claim is purely opinion and is very likely based on people's desire to "root" for the underdog (ATI at the moment). I honestly can't see a difference between the two card's 2D picture quality. I truly don't think there is a noticable difference. I've had very good luck and performance from NVidia products so I still ride on the NVidia Bandwagon. And the fact that they make the fastest video card for a non-professional computer (by this I mean "not for doing CAD, and making computer graphics for TV and movies etc.) helps me stay on that bandwagon. If it weren't for NVidia's progress in the computer graphics industry, we might well still be playing crap 2D side scrolling games like Galaxian and Mario Brothers. And... ATI will still be there when NVidia and S3 are dead? I wouldn't hold your breath until NVidia's gone. You'll be quite blue I'm afraid before that time comes. nForce chipsets are on motherboards now and are getting good reviews. I doubth this will hurt NVidia's future. Where's the ATI chipset for motherboards? __________________ To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. patrbarnes@gmail.com Last edited by Tiretool; 09-30-2001 at 09:21 PM.