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unruly.st! wrote:

ATI sux big time.
Never seen any ATI user who did have no problem

i dont

m, i have one problem with q3 gamma
sometimes it is very dark after running exe.

well, the cool script helps me

[code:1]//против глюков видеокарты от ати

set rg1 "set r_gamma 1.6; set rgg vstr rg2; echo r_gamma = 1.6"
set rg2 "set r_gamma 1.7; set rgg vstr rg1; echo r_gamma = 1.7"
set rgg "vstr rg1";
bind = "vstr rgg"[/code:1]

I,d have to agree on the 6800 or 6800gt for 3 reasons some of which may or may not apply to you.

#1. Driver support I,ve had ati cards and after awhile they tend to get pretty lax on updating them or outright ignore old chipsets in favor of new ones. Last ATI I ever bothered buying was a Rad 7800, that I bought as a cheap replacment for a blown card. "Which was my own fault btw" The ATI was about 2 years old and the only place I could find the drivers was from windows update and they were @ least 1 year old drivers there. Heck allthough I use the 5200 I can still find updated drivers for the MX400 series and older..

#2. Ease of configuration in an os other than windows. I like tinkering with other operating systems and hate to say it but @ least in my case nvidia won there also, I currently run mepis lite for now . But I didnt even need to install the driver on that which pretty much is never the case for ATI had to jump from page to page to find the right mesa libs to run it. I cant say that for all the distributions though just the ones I've bothered getting. ..

#3 Cost per unit and the ability to speed things up @ your own risk. If you look around youll see that a nv VPU compared to around the same preformance VPU in the ati market is allways a little less expensive. And as said in an earlier post alot of the value chips can be unlocked to become their more expensive cousin with a bios update or other utility. But beware as that,s how I blew the card I spoke of earlier, Never use stock cooling.

jupp i would support the gainward too!
- not much expensive like msi/asus/etc
- never had problems with grainward
- a good choise between price/performance

and dont bye a Club3D card!!!

ati for president