You seem to have read the title and jumped right in there with a brand biased comment, your 'AMD' reply makes no sense because the actual post was him asking if there is any truth in the fact that AMD cards are dying quickly.
I can't really say about recent cards, but from my past experience, I've had 2 ATI cards and 1 NVidia card die outright. More than anything with ATI cards has been the flaky driver support. Not owned an ATI card since AMD took over, but I'd like to think they now handle them better.
Check out the benchmarks for games you'll be playing, both AMD and NVidia card's use different hardware/software techniques and they tend to pull a head a little in different games. Then buy a card from a manufacture that'll provide you with 3yr or better warranty, but going with any overclocked card even from the manufacture is pushing the chips past their designed limits. The chances are if you're a gamer, you'll be replacing the card before the 3 years are up anyway.
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I've never had driver problems with ATi/AMD despite having used them for years. I've heard of issues with Crossfire, but I've never run more than a single card so it's never affected me. I've also used nVidia, and while I've had cards on both sides fail, neither has experienced a failure rate beyond what could reasonably be expected.
Bottom line, sagum's advice above is sound; get a card from a good manufacturer with a solid warranty that provides the performance you want in games you'll be playing.
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i agree with Sagum. & also AMD/ATI & Nvidia have Different architecture so too compare the card's just by the Spec's is not all that reliable (most of the time even though AMD/ATI have better Spec's Nvidia can match them sometimes out do them) this is also the case when you compare Intel to AMD,
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Nvidia has more driver updates which increase performance on games and basically has updates that increase performance
I went to my dads house to help him something with the computer (he's is an AMD the one you can oerclock) aparranyly he wanted to know how to update. To make a long story short no updates for the 2 year old amd card.
NVIDIA FTW
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• AMD also updates their drivers to increase performance. Because duh.
• You can overclock pretty much any video card, so "the one you can overclock" doesn't narrow it down.
• If he hadn't updated Catalyst in two years, there was certainly a new version available.
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nVIDIA, although my first nVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT died after 2 years, i got a new one for free which still works after 3 years
When are AMD and nVIDIA going to drop their top of the line cards below 200 USD, like they did with the nVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
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Nvidia, by the way, Im using a Nvidia graphics card, and I believe this computer is running on a AMD driver, so how do I change it to a Nvidia driver?
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Personal choice really, make sure you read reviews as well. Nvidia seems to be the peoples choice but the price of the 7970, that's pretty awesome. As for these stories about the AMD cards dying really fast, I can only put that down to people overclocking it and not keeping it cool enough. In your situation I would probably go with the AMD.
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AMD :D I have passive 6850 SCS3 and it's nice :D
Buy 7970 Vapor-X :)
I'm not AMD's fanboy :)
History of my GFX: nVidia FX5200-> Winfast 6600TD-> BFG 8800GTS->GTX260 SP216 (just burned xD )->Gigabyte 5570.
And now Powercolor HD 6850 SCS3 and EVGA GTS250 in second PC ;]
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i had an AMD card for something like 4 years and it stills works, i have it on a secondary PC right now, and it is working perfectly. i have never had a nvidia product so i cant talk about it
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cheack out all the problems with amd drivers i had 7870 and it has bad drivers i use gtx 660ti and it is amazing all around
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They both make great cards, but AMD is probably the way to go right now since they have better bundled games, the current Nvidia promo is pretty lame.
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Its what ever you want to go for really. Both types are good and decent. Both have many quality makers.
Yes its true AMD cards can just suddenly die, but the same is true for Nvidia cards.
AMD doesn't have new drivers coming out all the time, latest stable finished one was from January. BUT Nvidia has also had some issues with some of their drivers. They didn't just hang the system they actually killed the video cards, that was in 2010.
Basically go with what you can afford. If I remember right, AMD cards will perform a little better then Nvidia cards in a similar price range because the AMD cards are a little cheaper.
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Whatever you buy, you'll probably wonder if the alternative wasn't better... :)
I'm sure you have done enough research to know already, either one of those cards can murder 99% of games available today at max settings. Hopefully the next console generation will lead to a higher class of lazy console ports for us pc gamers... :)
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Certainly, but if you're running three+ monitors or 2560x1600 you know enough not to do your video card research here... :)
More serious answer - check your favourite hardware site, there's bound to be useful reviews and/or helpful forum stuff. I like [H]ard|OCP but there's a lot of good info in other places.
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Benchmarking gets your so far. Harware wise they're all about the same reliability. Any card may die at any point but it's pretty rare these days. Functionally you can assume any card out of the box will last for a decade assuming you don't put it in a 100C closet covered in dust. But here's the issue
DRIVERS can by far close the gap between 2 cards
And Nvidia has better driver support. THe CCC drivers are utter garbage even in the post XP days where drivers no longer have the ability to obliterate your OS in weird ways.
Full Disclosure: literally half my EE class works at AMD which make recommending Nvidia really really painful. They're all awesomely smart people. Way smarter than me! It's just that the driver division is separate from the hardware people. So the 'total' package just doesn't work as well.
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+1 choose based on your setup and the best performance for what you can afford and don't listen to the stack of urban legends nvida users make up about AMD vice versa to justify their own purchases.
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Okay,I thought I was going to buy an AMD radeon 7970 GHz edition (the overclocked one) but then I read some stories about AMD's cards dying really fast. Is this true? Another option for me would be a GTX 670 SC, but its weaker than the 7970.
-UPDATE: Already bought and installed the Radeon 7970.
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