Ati or nvidia?

vvvv beta question
#1

Hi!
i’m preparing a new computer to run vvvv and i have two cards in mind.

  1. Asus / ati / HD 4850 / 1Gb / 2xDVI
  2. Gigabyte / NVIDIA / GTS 250 / 1Gb / 2xDVI

what would you sugest?

btw. is it possible to put a pair of both cards in cross/sli mode since i’ll take one pair?

#2

Hi!
i’m preparing a new computer to run vvvv and i have two cards in mind.

  1. Asus / ati / HD 4850 / 1Gb / 2xDVI
  2. Gigabyte / NVIDIA / GTS 250 / 1Gb / 2xDVI

what would you sugest?

btw. is it possible to put a pair of both cards in cross/sli >mode since i’ll take one pair?

It is difficult to choose one. Personally i like nvidia, and i have a pair of 9800gtx in sli.
anyway there is the new 5000series of ATI (for example the ATI5870, the most powerful videocard of the world).

here is a list of features of the 2 cards (nvidia vs ati5000series):

-NVIDIA

  • probably better antialiasing
  • 3dstereo drivers for use with 3d monitors or with 3dvision by nvidia
  • some shaders don’t go with ATI (for example displace)

-ATI

  • dx11
  • more power
  • eyefinity technology (useful for multimonitor, with 3 or 6 monitors in the same card)

anyway i’m waiting that my computer becomes old (or that i gain some money) to buy the new ati graphic card, search on youtube ati5870 for an example of the superpower of this monster.

#3

another thing,
by my experience vvvv dosen’t take advantage of sli/crossfire configuration, or at least i don’t see it

#4

well yes, HD 5870 is a great piece of hardware but i’m limited with budget.

i didnt know that vvvv is not using sli configuration… well that may change my decision about mobo. what kind of motherboard do you use for sli mode?

#5

what kind of motherboard do you use for sli mode?

i have an asus strikerII extreme, with the nforce chipset, with a intel quadcore, and 4gb of ddr3 ram.
But if i should buy a new computer now, there is some mobo (for intel i5 or i7) that support both sli and crossfire

#6

ahem… a little offtopic:

i don’t trust ASUS mainboards anymore. had two broken just right after the warranty expired.
heard similar things about their notebooks.

#7

after some googling and 5xxx series bug in my head i’ve managed to make a configuration with two HD5750 cards, i5 processor and crossfire mobo (GB P55-UD4 x16x8 PCIe) with the same budget :)

#8

@kalle: i have that motherboard (and for now i’m really happy of this) and i have an asus laptop (g2s) and i never had problems except a little problem with the graphic card of the notebook, but they changed me the bugged piece and now all goes well.

#9

that eyefinity looks nice. so eyefiniy x triplehead to go=a lot

allthought that 5870 it’s the winner (for now) in power, whats better for NVIDIA or ATI ? I think there are more problems reported in the forum with ATI than NVIDIA, but maybe im wrong.

I have a new GTS 250, and coming from an x3100, the antialising its like a new world for me.

#10

nVidia + iCore 7

#11

i’m using a phenom II on a gigabyte-mainboard and an ati 4890 as development machine, no problems whatsoever. vj’ing on an old hp compaq 9420 (coreduo and ati x1600), works as well. the only vvvv-related problems in choosing between ati and nvidia imo are some shaders not supported by both. i had those when i tried the newer notebook of my sister with a geforce 9600gt-chip.