ATI vs nVidia... another tough question

tamu0910 · Post by **tamu0910** » 14 Mar 2005, 04:46

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

Koffy · Post by **Koffy** » 15 Mar 2005, 02:35

Only 4x AGP support can be a problem, since 5700's have 8x (extreme) support. Still, it should be much better than your old ATI. Old drivers for the GF could be a possible issue, but it should still be better.

paras779 · Post by **paras779** » 15 Mar 2005, 03:54

I think ATI is better one..

EmptyWords · Post by **EmptyWords** » 15 Mar 2005, 04:45

i often hear that ATI is tons better, but i dont know anymore, benchmarks show one thing, and people say other things, my geforce sucks... i gota fx5700le with 256 ram

Stereo · Post by **Stereo** » 15 Mar 2005, 05:09

My dad has a Radeon 8500, It's WAY old... Older than my Nvidia geForce 2 GTS. (32MB)

tamu0910 · Post by **tamu0910** » 15 Mar 2005, 06:28

Mr. Stereo can you please look at the forum title Desktop themes
I have some querry for you please
thank you

Koffy · Post by **Koffy** » 15 Mar 2005, 15:51

It has been allready sayd in this forum, that 256 boards are crap, since the mem modules 256 boards have are slow. That can be a problem.

Sir Ibi · Post by **Sir Ibi** » 15 Mar 2005, 19:45

have you tried updating your drivers... i had a similar problem too, when i replaced my ATI 9600 XT for NVIDIA 6800GT, which is Â£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

tamu0910 · Post by **tamu0910** » 16 Mar 2005, 04:10

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.

vellu · Post by **vellu** » 16 Mar 2005, 09:56

Full reinstall? Chipset drivers are installed (if not, AGP performance is non-existent)?