Quote Originally Posted by Lestat View Post
I still find it quite hilarious, but bad for Nvidia that after, how many years?, ATI brings out 2 cards, ok now 3 with the 4870X2 that can beat Nvidia. The aforementioned 2 (4850/4870) are not ahead of nvidia by only a smidgen, they win only on price, so everyone starts calling nvidia dead, they are doomed, omg nvidia lost!!

the fact is boys and girls, ATI has not produced a competetive card since the 9600/9700/9800 series. the X800/X850 series was nice too but all along nvidia was raking in the profits and hearts and minds of PC enthusiasts.

Nvidia has lost the race 1 time in nearly 15 years, and people are dooming nvidia, and frankly all this bashing by the community and websites is truly hurting nvidia.

Now granted nvidia has hurt themselves, no one will deny that, with their fixed pricing, yada yada yada, and their mobile chipset solder issue, but to label them losers in the video card race is just total bullsh|t.

I like any card that has the power to do what i want it to do, and frnakly i like the GTX260/280 and the 4850/4870, so in my mind everyone wins.
but this continued smashing, raking over the coals, and literal market killing talk about nvidia has got to stop.

ATI, 1 time in the last, oh 6 years produces a card that has FINALLY overtaken Nvidia (4870X2), and all the sudden ATI is king.

this is the hilarious, and you people flip flopping, and bashing and raising ATI from the grave are hilarious.
ATI is in FAR FAR worse shape than nvidia E V E R will be financially.
You have it wrong, it's not because of nvidia's competitiveness in performance that people are downplaying their future.

It's because of their business practices, the whole failure rate lawsuits and general behaviour.
They keep renaming the same chips again and again and again (and yet again with the new gso and gtx150)

This does not bode well for the enthusiast image of a performance vga company.
ATI may only have became performance leaders recently but at least they are advancing their cards