My trusty Ti4200 recently went pop so I am now in the market for a new GFX card. At the mo I'm looking at the ATI Radeon 9600 Pro as it seems to be the best for around £100, unless anyone has any other suggestions? Anyway, will an ATI card work properly with an nForce based motherboard? Will there be any compatibility issues with either the hardware or the drivers? I can't imagine the two getting along very well.
I run an ATi 9600pro on my NF7-S, fairly heavily overclocked with no stability issues what so ever... infact my current uptime is well over 3 days
No problems at all. You can even let fly with programs like Driver cleaner as it keeps the Nvidia mobo drivers separate to Nvidia Gfx drivers. Do make sure to use a utility like this, as the same issues apply with all mobo's regarding cleaning the system of old GFx drivers before installing a diferent manufacturers gfx card.
Not sure about the conversion but I bought a Evga FX5900se from NEWEGG for about $190 US. Really nice card - check out the reviews. No comparison against a 9600xt - gained mucho FPS. Runs just a titch below a 5900 non ultra and it OCs well. Unlike the ATI cards the SE doesnt mean SLOW EDITION.....nVidia SE isnt crippled, just slightly slower memory.
No, the two will fight to the bitter end in the digital environment until one, is ultimately the victor and laughs manically at the others pittyful defeat. Nothing is then left alive on either PCB as the victor ravages the systems looking for all who are affiliated with the other and mercylessly overvolts them into death. Or, they could work fine together? Choose which you believe to be the sarcastic answer
I went for a Sapphire 9600XT 256MB, free copy of Half-Life 2 too! Its now working fine. Has anyone else had a card that was undercooled to start with and had weird artifacts while playing games? A few ramsinks sorted it out, but seems stupid not cooling them well enough to start with. Its not as if its hot in my case either.
TBH my hercules 9800 pro seemed v undercooled to start with, most 9800 pros have the vacuum styleé heatsinks but this was just a tiny geforce 3 style heatsink, granted when i replaced it the other night, hercules had paid attention to detail, they had arctic silver on the core and the heatsink was lapped to a mirror finish but it still wasn't enough, half a kilo of heatsink in the form of a zaliman passive jobby sorted it out though (with a fan over it) runs v cool now and overclocks like a pro
That's cause they do what they need to, not what you want. If it cools at stock speeds within the temp requirements, as far as these people are concerned that's enough for the end user.
