ok, question needs to be answered by yall

[MarcwithaC]

about 6:00 tomorow im picking up my new video card, its either going to be the geforce 5900 ultra 256 mb or the ati 9800 pro 256 mb cards.........

the only difference i can see is that the geforce takes up 2 slots, but the price is about the same......

im using a p4 2.0 512 mb ram and this is for gaming........

ill purchase by the answers you give which one should i purchase

1. geforce?

2. ati radeon?

http://www.ocaddiction.com/articles/...adeon_9800pro/

http://www.hothardware.com/hh_files/...x5900upd.shtml

just throwing out benchmarks and reviews

[shawshank62]

from what i hear, the ati drivers are pretty bad....I know a few people who got rid of their ati's and opted for a FX 5800/5900 because the drivers were so bad on ati.

i have atuaclly heard the exact opposite about the ati drivers. i heard ATI has made great strides in there drivers department. (yes they were terrible, i used to have to use them) if you search around other ati card threads many people are have success with them.

[Omardeth]

don't think you can go wrong with either to be honost . they benchmark about dead even in most tests . the ati drivers started out bad but are much better now . but the fx5900 drivers are new so will get better . so the preformance of the fx might get better as newer drivers are released . were as they have gotten about all they can out of the 9800 drivers now .

and as far as the blocked pci slot , whats that matter , nobody uses the first pci slot anyway . it shares an irq with the agp slot so nobody uses it anyway . lets face it with onboard nic and sound now adays running out of pci slots is no big problem anymore .

so like i said in the begining
don't think you can go wrong with either .

[MarcwithaC]

so basically im gonna go with ati cause it leaves me more space in my comp for firewire cards and ect....

[JayMan]

I'd go with the 9800...

Nvidia have been going backwards with their drivers lately... They've been putting in "optimizations" which increase performance (only in certain apps), but those optimizations also make it loose quailty.

AF quality & performance are pretty similar on the cards, but the 9800 has the better quality AA.

JayMan

[Urban_Squrill]

ATI good.

[Urban_Squrill]

Those cards a alot of cash. What are you running right now?

[sunxiaol]

go with the ATI, I recently got the Radeon 9800, and its ripping up the benchmarks and anythign i throw at it. This is before overclocking too.