I recently bought nVidia FX 5700LE cards. Before I had ATI 8500 Radeon. My new cards have 128 ram but the old one had only 64. Now I am puzzled. ATI i bought around 2 years ago did not see any much difference with this new cards. Rather I see the ATI winning the battlefield in my PC.
Did I made the wrong purchase ?
Is my old ATI really better then the one I just purchased ?
in this nVidia cards I read that its compatible with PCI and AGP both... does that means I can slot this card in one of my PCI slot and get the better performace ? or did I read it completly wrong ?
Forget to mention my PC specs.
Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz
Intel motherboard
512 mb
120 GB hard drive divided in to 2 partitions
WIN XP SP2
AGP only support 4x
Thank you all
ATI vs nVidia... another tough question
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have you tried updating your drivers... i had a similar problem too, when i replaced my ATI 9600 XT for NVIDIA 6800GT, which is £200 more expensive and didn't notice any difference for some bizarrare reason, updating my drivers solved this problem. Try looking for the latest drivers at the NVIDIA web site >>> http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp
Also be sure to have completly removed your old ATI drivers and files, and try downloading and installing this free software >> http://www.drivercleaner.net/ >> it removes the registry files of your ATI drivers. Hope it helps
Also be sure to have completly removed your old ATI drivers and files, and try downloading and installing this free software >> http://www.drivercleaner.net/ >> it removes the registry files of your ATI drivers. Hope it helps
well actually what I most of the time do if I got new important hardware like cpu or the mb or the video, reformat and install everything again. So basically that means there is not a single thing that can relate to ATI at this moment in my comp. And yes I always like to download and install the top most latest driver even if my card sometime doesn't support.
Actually my pointers was that just before I reformat the pc I noticed no such changes in the game play but I rather found it little worse then with the previous card. Not to mention the card time period which is 2 years. I bought that 8500 in 2001 or 2. Well actually I bought the original ATI built card and that cost me alot of money like say HK$1,800 (US$230) but this new card is only HK$ 700 (US$90) . Well ofcourse the pc price has gone down but definetly 8500 at that time was the top of the line card when I bought it.
Anyway now after I got everything reformat and reinstal XP with SP2 and nVidia's new driver I can't really tell the difference but if I have to say it I'll say its not good.
Actually my pointers was that just before I reformat the pc I noticed no such changes in the game play but I rather found it little worse then with the previous card. Not to mention the card time period which is 2 years. I bought that 8500 in 2001 or 2. Well actually I bought the original ATI built card and that cost me alot of money like say HK$1,800 (US$230) but this new card is only HK$ 700 (US$90) . Well ofcourse the pc price has gone down but definetly 8500 at that time was the top of the line card when I bought it.
Anyway now after I got everything reformat and reinstal XP with SP2 and nVidia's new driver I can't really tell the difference but if I have to say it I'll say its not good.