GPU Question: Attn. -nVidia 570- & -ATi HD 6970- owners

[Aenarion]

Personally I would go with the nVidia. From previous experience nVidia did have a bit of a slip with the series 8xxx and series 9xxx geforces but they've improved a lot since then, but all 4 of the ATI cards I've had in the past have had one or two problems with them, usually in the areas of poor RAM handling or struggling with fast frame changing. Seriously the ATI 4650 HD I bought couldn't even run WoW Cata in 1024x768 without the frame-rate dieing horribly in Stormwind, but then I took that back and swapped it for a Geforce 210 which cost the same price, and that works fine for FFXIV with all settings on medium, apart from a bit of a drop in frame-rate in some overly graphical areas (Black Shroud).

I've found nVidia to be much more game friendly and their nview program just seems to operate better than ATI Catalyst does.

the 8000 series were great when it first came out, it only became an issue when nvidia kept rebadging the same thing and call it the 9000 series, and then even tried to do it again when they were switching to the 200 series.

Frankly, I've never had much issues with any of my video cards, nvidia or ati/amd, the 8800 was great, the HD5850 kicked ass, and now the GTX580 is doing just fine.

[Konachibi]

the 8000 series were great when it first came out, it only became an issue when nvidia kept rebadging the same thing and call it the 9000 series, and then even tried to do it again when they were switching to the 200 series.

Frankly, I've never had much issues with any of my video cards, nvidia or ati/amd, the 8800 was great, the HD5850 kicked ass, and now the GTX580 is doing just fine.

The problem with the 8 and 9 series were their poor quality fans. The cards were prone to overheating and shutting off the computer (known on the nvidia forums as 'the black screen of death') which was a problem nVidia never addressed, mostly 'cos they knew they screwed up. I found the problem I had with my Geforce 9500GT was sometimes the fan wouldn't switch on when I booted up the computer, so I had to prod the fan with a pen whilst the computer was running to get it spinning and stop my computer from melting at 120 degrees. Since then though the quality of their cards has improved back up to the standards they were before the series 8's so they're much more reliable now.

*Please Note: Do not prod the insides of your computer with anything whilst it is operating, only fully trained experts or stupid people like me should do things like that*