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Everyone has their favourites, right?. Favourite food, favourite TV shows. You get the idea. But which compnay is your favourite? ATI or Nvidia?
As old as the Intel v AMD war, this new Graphics card 'skirmish' is great for us consumers because both companies are constantly releasing newer and faster card in an attempt to out do the others. But where do you stand? Who do you support? Do you stand with NVidia, or swear allegance to ATI?
Let me know what you think.
Oh an by the way, I'm for ATI all the way.
Radeon > GeForce
As old as the Intel v AMD war, this new Graphics card 'skirmish' is great for us consumers because both companies are constantly releasing newer and faster card in an attempt to out do the others. But where do you stand? Who do you support? Do you stand with NVidia, or swear allegance to ATI?
Let me know what you think.
Oh an by the way, I'm for ATI all the way.
Radeon > GeForce
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my ATI still working fine no need for overclocking downloads...
and what do they exactaly do?
i thought overclocking was bad so downloading something that overclocks your graphic card is supposed to be good?
explain...
and what do they exactaly do?
i thought overclocking was bad so downloading something that overclocks your graphic card is supposed to be good?
explain...
Let me explain:
The world constists of 2 major groups of people;
1-The content computer user
2-The Techy computer user who will hand pick computer components whenever he/she can to "hand build" a custom number crunching monster.
This second group has an uncontrollable desire to push the boundaries of technology to the absolute limit - one of the ways of doing this is to overclock - to make processors and memory run faster than they were designed to.
It is the MOST pleasurable thing in the world to watch your computer booting at a 30% clock speed boost - until it inevitably crashes 5 minutes later etc...
Same with graphics cards, but you must have a program that will alllow you to alter the memory/VPU clockspeeds
Overclocking can be fun and can result in genuine performance boosts eg its quite easy to overclock a standard Radeon to PRO levels - this saves you from having to upgrade etc...
Its been labelled as a bad practice because processor manufacturers hate it - its bad for business.
Its also the easiest way to frazzle your components -the faster they run the more heat they generate, graphics cards are especially vulnerable in this department.
The choice is yours
The world constists of 2 major groups of people;
1-The content computer user
2-The Techy computer user who will hand pick computer components whenever he/she can to "hand build" a custom number crunching monster.
This second group has an uncontrollable desire to push the boundaries of technology to the absolute limit - one of the ways of doing this is to overclock - to make processors and memory run faster than they were designed to.
It is the MOST pleasurable thing in the world to watch your computer booting at a 30% clock speed boost - until it inevitably crashes 5 minutes later etc...
Same with graphics cards, but you must have a program that will alllow you to alter the memory/VPU clockspeeds
Overclocking can be fun and can result in genuine performance boosts eg its quite easy to overclock a standard Radeon to PRO levels - this saves you from having to upgrade etc...
Its been labelled as a bad practice because processor manufacturers hate it - its bad for business.
Its also the easiest way to frazzle your components -the faster they run the more heat they generate, graphics cards are especially vulnerable in this department.
The choice is yours
béSSánt ©opy®ight™ wrote:
> my ATI still working fine no need for overclocking downloads...
>
> and what do they exactaly do?
> i thought overclocking was bad so downloading something that
> overclocks your graphic card is supposed to be good?
>
> explain...
Overclocking Graphics cards doesn't hold the same reputation as overclocking CPU's. Alot of the newer models have inbuilt security features which moniters the clock rate compared to heat.
Ati have an official program called Overdrive which automatically bunks the Clock rates sky high and lowers them if necessary. So really the manufacturers don't mind you overclocking it. As for damaging the card, as long as your carefull, you won't do it harm. Besides with the new features the Ati card (and no doubt NVidia, although I can't be sure) have installed the Card will shut down and boot to it's stock settings long before you can damage it.
Reasons for doing so? As tigamilla kindly explained, you can turn your card into the next model with 1/2 hours tweaking and at most, some additional cooling (depending on the card).
> my ATI still working fine no need for overclocking downloads...
>
> and what do they exactaly do?
> i thought overclocking was bad so downloading something that
> overclocks your graphic card is supposed to be good?
>
> explain...
Overclocking Graphics cards doesn't hold the same reputation as overclocking CPU's. Alot of the newer models have inbuilt security features which moniters the clock rate compared to heat.
Ati have an official program called Overdrive which automatically bunks the Clock rates sky high and lowers them if necessary. So really the manufacturers don't mind you overclocking it. As for damaging the card, as long as your carefull, you won't do it harm. Besides with the new features the Ati card (and no doubt NVidia, although I can't be sure) have installed the Card will shut down and boot to it's stock settings long before you can damage it.
Reasons for doing so? As tigamilla kindly explained, you can turn your card into the next model with 1/2 hours tweaking and at most, some additional cooling (depending on the card).
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