OT: ATI or NVidia

[seer]

Does it really matter ? Both top of the lines crank out avout the same FPS, depending on the benchmarks an ATI card outperforms an nVidia with 2 or 3 FPS and another benchmark shows the other way around. Meaning; both cards are fast, some games like nVidia, some like ATI, the difference is minor.

Not helpfull huh ?

It may also depends on the mobo tho...

[seer]

Probably makes a difference. :-)

Well, you would think it would favor a nVidia gfx card. But I recently read a review of an nForce4 mobo (not persee because of the news item) and the differences with an ATI or nVidia based card were minor..

[seer]

ATI seems to have always been better in the cooling department, and as a side-effect, don't require as big a fan.

Perhaps true, but the latest/fastest ATI card x850 does.