I will let this ATI vs NVidia debate continue elsewhere, but I did find a nice argument online that you all might be interested in
This pretty much sums it up I think
newtekie1 said:
Either way you look at it both sides have their strengths, and both sides have their weaknesses. They are both releasing solid drivers, but neither side is perfect. Is either worse than the other? IMO, no.
OK in response to MasterP: (lots of
MasterP said:
The last ATI card I owned had absolutely terrible driver support. had to quit playing CSS for almost 6 months because my drivers crashed Steam.exe.
your ATI card was FIVE gernerations old. I even admit that ATI drivers used to be terrible (I had a desktop X850XT). But the lol question is why didn’t you just roll back to the old driver? 
MasterP said:
The frequency of driver released shouldn’t be any measure of greatness as a good driver doesn’t need updating.
I can only lol at this as nvidia releases drivers all the frickin time.
Ok to close this argument let me just say that neither company has perfect drivers and any issues you experience are typically from a combination of hardware, configuration, and the software you are trying to run. Rarely do drivers react 100% identical on 2 different systems, from either ATI or nVidia.
2 years ago, I wouldn’t buy an ATI card, but things have changed and I think they have improved.
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