Jagr said:
nVidia’s overheating problem only really happens when you overclock the card to extreme amounts or have insufficient cooling. Their mid-range cards are *edited* good, as Kuros said you can probably get the 7950 KTKO for a cheap amount now, maybe $300-350.
And this is coming froma guy with an ATI. I can’t wait to build my new rig, lulz.
I got mine for $280 in February, so it’s probably well under $250 now. I’ve seen an overheating problem in ATI, and never Nvidia, so as far as overheating goes, it’s going to be a possibility (however slight) with either card. That’s what warranties are for. But I will say that I push two monitors at 1280×1024 and I’m not running any handicapped config in source for fps and I still get around 90-100 even while piping both monitors. When I was running a single monitor config, I could push up to 160 fps in source at max settings. Get the 7950 GT KO, you’ll love it. I’m also currently running at 1.07 GB of memory usage so that’s hurting my fps as well. This card rocks.