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Originally Posted by Howling
Welcome to the biggest fanboy and uninformed post of the week 
Either that or you've only known about computers for 2 years, because I guarantee you 4-5 years ago ATi and AMD were pounding the **** out of nVidia and Intel, on cooling, price, overclockability, performance and also (for the greenies) power usage. AMD processors for a long time were known as the "gamer's choice" cpus due to their amazing performance and ability to be pushed even further.
As to the prices of the ATi cards, it's a purposeful business move to reclaim some of the market share they lost over these last 2 years with the failed 2 and 3 series cards while ATi and AMD merged. It's a marketing ploy, nothing more - nothing less. It does not infer lesser quality components, nor lesser performance - simply a marketing strategy to get more people's loyalties back to ATi. You may think that it "****s with the consumers" - but it actually is fantastic not only for ATi, but for the consumers aswel. As you may have noticed the GTX series from nVidia has dropped phenominally in price these last 2 months due to ATi's aggressive strategy, and if ATi we offering cheap **** that didn't work - nVidia wouldn't be threatened and you would still be paying $800 for a GTX280 instead of $400.
No, this is not an AMD/ATi fanboy reply, I'm running an Intel Q6600 and nVidia 8800GTS - these are simple facts to cure some people of their terribly uninformed stupidity. Thank you and good day to you sir. |
AGREED. until the C2D's came about a hardware junkie would not be caught dead with a intel processor. before that when ATI was still on it's 9 series card you could spend a lot of time looking at that and the 6 series. (that was when i was poor) A year ago if you were buying the logical choice was Nvidia. Now you look at your pocketbook and decide super powered or pretty close and a lot cheaper?
True hardware junkies don't hold to brands they hold to benchmarks.