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FWIW - I own a couple of nVidia's and a couple of ATI's in various pc's.
After couple years now I can honestly say I've had a lot less problems with
nVidia's drivers etc. than ATI's. The ATI cards seem a lot more prone to
"wonder what got installed that changed ??? so it no longer works as it did"
As far as "compatibility" goes, I've never been able to get Final Fantasy
VII to run on any of the ATI cards, conversely I've never been able to get
VRally III to run on any of the nVidia cards. That's across multiple OS's.
"farmuse" <spammenot@farms.net> wrote in message
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> Greg wrote:
> > The Radeon has 64 meg and the Nvidia has 128. But the Ramdac is the
same.
> > This is for a desktop. Some 3D game playing. Otherwise desktop
publishing
> > and photo editing.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Greg
> >
> >
> I have owned both, the 8500 was genuine ATI, it ran good, but I
> have to say the 5200 ran better. Now this is a PNY 128 MB card, and I
> did OC it to 300 or so for the gpu. I am usually a fan of ATI, have
> owned many many ATI cards, but I have to honestly say the 5200 ran
> better and some games looked and played better. Most would disagree but
> I seriously doubt the 8500 could run Farcry, and the 5200 ran it at
> medium settings 1024 x 768 with decent framerates. I have since bought a
> 6800 and like that a lot, but the 5200 is far better than the way people
> make it out to be. Sorry, but I am just telling it like it is.