Originally posted by stu
the past few years have shown that the geforce has had more hardware compatibility issues than ATI, especially with regards to providing adequte power supply. but that is not to say that cards from either company are completely trouble free. ATI's main problem is that their drivers are a bit buggy.
I haven't seen a motherboard that strictly requires an Nvidia board to work with it unless it was already integrated in the motherboard. Motherboard manufacturers design their motherboards to comply with the AGP specification, and not for just one board or one company. That way, there's some room for customization for PC vendors.
In fact, I've heard that the new Geforce 4 has some problems even fitting into certain motherboards.
Hey, Stu come give me a hug.
J/K
Thanks for the backup... I thought I was all alone with being an Pro-ATI Person.
The GeForce4 Ti4600 beats the ATI Radeon 8500 hands down. I'm not saying that ATI cards aren't any good, but you can clearly see by any benchmarks that the Ti4600 easily beats the 8500 from ATI.
I would like to see these benchmarks.
ATI is releasing a new card to kick Geforce's ---... and gain market.
If you want effective price and performance go with the ATI Radeon 8500. If you got money in your pocket, and want better performance go with the new All-in-wonder 8500DV ($299). It beats the Geforce4 Ti4600.