well I got my shiny new pc last summer and already i feel the graphics card is not performing that well and off late I am getting weird corruption, invisible menus etc
so think i will get a new one.
Anyone recommend a good one. I use max , zbrush and pshop mainly
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http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-geforce-fermi-delay-gpu,9326.html
So.. Can you wait till April? If you need something now, the ATI cheaper offerings are more than up to the job to get you by. But still want to see/save too see what the hype is (and if pass/fails).
ATI has let me down for a long time. They stack up well against Nvidia in benchmarks and games, but there is always SOME type of compatibility issues that pop up in dev apps with ATI cards in my experience.
but yeah if your looking for cutting edge then wait a bit
otherwise its ATI, they're the fastest around at this very time, and also the cheaper.
quoted for truth if you are developing go with nvidia !
these dont work that well with win7, also the additional stream units are quite buggy
nowdays I dunno, it seems like both are stable when it comes to drivers, but I would love to hear someone who has had bad experiences with the recent 5000 series of ATI cards.
Even if you are not, still go with nvidia. I just gave up after having three different models of ATI cards, all of which crashed locked and just plain didn't work properly and finally went for a Nvidia card and haven't had a single problem since.
edit: Actually it may matter if you use win 7 and max 2010. Some users reported extremely low fps in maximized perspective viewport with nvidia cards. Not sure if this also affects the latest nvidias. Might want to look at the autodesk forums.
ZBrush...doesn't matter. uses it's own renderer. just needs CPU power and RAM (amazingly enough it even runs on my netbook with the craptastic intel GMA)
I settled on the Nvidia 250 GTS 1gb from newegg. Decent price, will probably last me a year or two.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121333
and that was a rage 128 if you remember those
As long as it runs the apps I use I don't need something 'uber'. I will also be using windows 7 at some point soon. i only have win xp 32 bit right now which is fine but does n't use all of my ram.
The next generation of consoles will use dx11, so there most likely be a lot more support on the PC side too, but getting a cheaper card to hold you off until the new line of nvidia cards drop in price isn't a bad idea.
I say get a new card to hold you over, its going to be a while. Unless something magical happens and the cost of producing new hardware and getting people to switch comes way down?
I'm not sure if they've made back their investments on the current generation much less stockpiled enough of a war chest to declare round 3.
It's what I settled with as well, zero troubles and runes everything smoothly (including most high end games as well).