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Originally posted by ack32
I think that the quality of NVidia stuff is good. You'll hear stories of unreliable cards on both sides of the fence. I had a friend who had to RMA a Radeon 9800 Pro twice, first because of instability problems and again because the fan fell off and the chip fried itself. I think the GeForce cards in the same class as the Radeon 9800 are pretty good.
Another thing is those sub-$200 Radeon 9800's are probably 9800 SE's. The SE means 4 pixel pipelines instead of 8, and lower clockspeed than the "normal" 9800's... significantly less performance. Might as well get a Radeon 9600 Pro and save the $$$, it'll only run you like $120-130. Seems like cards jump from the ~$140 range to ~$250 anyway, so you can either get a cheap, moderately good card, or pay up the nose for a better one, not much in between.
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I never said that the NVIDIA FX 5900 was a bad card, I'm simply letting everyone know that there ARE a TON of bad cards out right now. Not bad as in performance bad, I mean bad as in they are fucked up. They are broke. That doesn't mean the card sucks; it simply means that a bunch of broken cards were shipped.
Yes, you're right about the SE's. They do suck for the price. But I did find a few places selling the regular 9800's (non-SE) for only $235-240 which is still a DAMN good deal for the price.
-Lasereth