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| quote: | Originally posted by gOOD-tRiP
some very good info here. I think i will go with the NF7-S and change to the XP2500 and overclock. And also the video card, yeah the FX5700 does do bad on half-life 2, but i just heard somewhere that the makers of half-life were making it run well with radeon cards. |
That's been debated before, and the general consensus is Nvidia's cards just plain suck at DX9 graphics, not only because of the way they structured their cards (which I won't get into, but if someone asks, I will, as it is a rather technical and lengthy subject), but also because of the business aspect. I mean, just look at the marketshare NVidia has compared to the marketshare ATI has (or rather, had at the time of initial public test results for HL2). Why would Valve purposely write their code to be optimized for ATI's cards, when they would sell more copies by bundling the game with NVidia's cards?
One of the less technical subjects I will get into has to do with the drivers and the way the software was written. Valve's programmers wrote a specific version of HL2 (after the preliminary test results came out) that made better use of the data pipeline structures in the FX cards, and yet NVidia's cards still did horribly.
What you heard probably has to do with the Doom3 alpha version that was leaked a while back, it ran fairly well (playably well I should say) on ATI's cards, and horribly on anything else. That's because Id was sending out promo test copies of Doom3 to different companies, and someone who worked at ATI leaked the code. If someone leaks code written to work best with their company's product, of course it's gonna work better than on another company's product. Had an NVidia employee leaked the game, Doom3 would have run much better on an NVidia card than it would on an ATI card.
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I've spent too frikken much on upgrading all these years 
