How far are you satisfied with Nvidia products?

[Aberforth]

I thought it would be nice to create this survey, if you own a nvidia graphics card I'd like you to vote how far are you satisfied with it. Like if you've spent 600 bucks on a graphics card - were you expecting 100% value for money or were you ready to cope with numrous hardware/software and performance issues that are going to occur?

Before voting, please consider the following categories:

Performance, Value for money, reliability and product lifespan.


I've just read nvidia is going to acquire VIA...That's right pals, they are in talks with VIA. During the past few years we've seen various attempts by big companies to acquire smaller ones like

AMD ---> ATi
MS ---> Yahoo! (in talks)
Nvidia ---> PhysX
Nvidia ----> VIA (in talks)

and so on. So we can conclude as revenue increases incompetency increases aswell, this creates a window of oppurtunity for new players which is not a bad thing after all.

Update: Fixed poll issue

 

[Jax Omen]

I'm a bit of a dual-case. I love my 8800GTS 320. Had it for a year, never once had a single problem. Hell, the only two games it can't run at max settings in 1600x1200, that I've encountered, are Crysis (no surprise there) and Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (have to kick the resolution down a notch to keep it stable).

On the other hand, my girlfriend has a 7600GS, and while it performs fine, the driver refuses to do aspect-ratio scaling for her widescreen monitor, making Starcraft a hideous mess.

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: Aberforth
I thought it would be nice to create this survey, if you own a nvidia graphics card I'd like you to vote how far are you satisfied with it. Like if you've spent 600 bucks on a graphics card - were you expecting 100% value for money or were you ready to cope with numrous hardware/software and performance issues that are going to occur?

Before voting, please consider the following categories:

Performance, Value for money, reliability and product lifespan.


I've just read nvidia is going to acquire VIA...That's right pals, they are in talks with VIA. During the past few years we've seen various attempts by big companies to acquire smaller ones like

AMD ---> ATi
MS ---> Yahoo! (in talks)
Nvidia ---> PhysX
Nvidia ----> VIA (in talks)

and so on. So we can conclude as revenue increases incompetency increases aswell, this creates a window of oppurtunity for new players which is not a bad thing after all.

I would love to see NVIDIA get a X86 license.

As their chips are already significantly more complex than any CPU, it would be interesting to see what they could do with CPU design.

They could conceivably become the "800 lb gorilla" of computing.

As far as the poll goes, I really don't see the point other than to start a flame war, given the skewed nature of the poll.

Gee, only 4 of the 5 choices are slams at NVIDIA. :roll:

I honestly don't understand posts/polls like this, would seem to be pointing us down the road Keys was trying to avoid with his stickied post at the top of the forum.

 

[Burrich]

I have liked all of my nVidia products. Everything has worked correctly, decently priced, and has laster longer than the same generation CPU.

 

[Aberforth]

Originally posted by: nRollo

Gee, only 4 of the 5 choices are slams at NVIDIA. :roll:

I honestly don't understand posts/polls like this, would seem to be pointing us down the road Keys was trying to avoid with his stickied post at the top of the forum.

Whats there to fear I don't understand...if the user is really satisfied he will vote for the first option. I am not running a AD campaign incase you dunno...

 

[Genx87]

I have been 110% satisfied with my 8800GTS 640. Glad I purchased it in Nov of 06 instead of wasting time waiting on the R600 which flopped.

 

[krnmastersgt]

I'd be surprised if someone voted that the nVidia video cards were underpowered seeing as how they almost always have the strongest card out (even if it's ridiculously expensive).
Fairly satisfied with my mobo, can't really comment on video cards since I bought my 8600 just to keep me satiated.

 

[Donts00tmesanta]

they reall busted one with the 9800 scheme when these newest high end don't meet the criteria

 

[hooflung]

My 7800GT drivers in Vista 64 suck. The drivers in general have gone down hill since the 8 series was birthed tbh.

 

[sisq0kidd]

Answers are sort of loaded, not to mention slightly ridiculous. I think a more objective option would be:

Extremely satisfied
Mostly satisfied
Satisfied
Somewhat unsatisfied
Very Unsatisfied

Eh, but at least there was an option for me on your pohl, which is "I am fairly satisfied."

 

[Munky]

Originally posted by: nRollo

Originally posted by: Aberforth
I thought it would be nice to create this survey, if you own a nvidia graphics card I'd like you to vote how far are you satisfied with it. Like if you've spent 600 bucks on a graphics card - were you expecting 100% value for money or were you ready to cope with numrous hardware/software and performance issues that are going to occur?

Before voting, please consider the following categories:

Performance, Value for money, reliability and product lifespan.


I've just read nvidia is going to acquire VIA...That's right pals, they are in talks with VIA. During the past few years we've seen various attempts by big companies to acquire smaller ones like

AMD ---> ATi
MS ---> Yahoo! (in talks)
Nvidia ---> PhysX
Nvidia ----> VIA (in talks)

and so on. So we can conclude as revenue increases incompetency increases aswell, this creates a window of oppurtunity for new players which is not a bad thing after all.

I would love to see NVIDIA get a X86 license.

As their chips are already significantly more complex than any CPU, it would be interesting to see what they could do with CPU design.

They could conceivably become the "800 lb gorilla" of computing.

As far as the poll goes, I really don't see the point other than to start a flame war, given the skewed nature of the poll.

Gee, only 4 of the 5 choices are slams at NVIDIA. :roll:

I honestly don't understand posts/polls like this, would seem to be pointing us down the road Keys was trying to avoid with his stickied post at the top of the forum.

There's no way Nvidia is anywhere close to becoming a threat to Intel, even if they acquired an x86 license. Firstly, cpu's are designed differently than gpu's, with a lot more custom logic, and it's much harder to extract parallel execution from cpu code than graphics. Secondly, Intel owns fabs which are a full process node ahead of the competition, and Nvidia would be at a big disadvantage without such fabs. And thirdly, if Intel sees Nvidia as a competitor on the cpu side, it could really hurt Nvidia's chipset business, and nobody in their right mind would buy Nvidia boards if it limited them to an inferior Nvidia cpu.

As far as the poll goes, I'm fairly satisfied with competitively priced products like the 8800gt and Nvidia's XP drivers. Vista could be a whole different can of worms, though, and I'm disappointed that the best video card they have now is a sandwich solution based on 1.5 year-old tech.

 

[thilanliyan]

Originally posted by: nRollo
They could conceivably become the "800 lb gorilla" of computing.

:disgust:

OT,
It's been okay for the most part lately with my 8800GT but when I first got a 8800GTS 640 there were some driver problems and I couldn't even play Splinter Cell: Double Agent (I think only 8800 series cards suffered from this) for a while...Gothic 3 wasn't working properly and there were 1 or 2 other games that weren't working as they should (can't remember off hand what they were)...also the fan couldn't be controlled from ntune, which was annoying for me.

In terms or driver issues I have definitely had less with ATI but then that's just me...I know some people say nVidia has better drivers but that hasn't been my experience. And at least with ATI you get WHQL releases monthly as well as tuned drivers (ie. Omega) that actually work. With nVidia you get a ridiculous amount of beta drivers with a confusing numbering scheme and whenever I tried tuned drivers they never worked properly for me.

Also the "driver stopped" error that I'm sure some of you have heard of ONLY happened to me with nVidia drivers (and I KNOW it was a driver issue). That was a real pain in the butt to diagnose and fix that problem.

All in all, my main complaint with nVidia has been their drivers (which is ironic since I had always heard how good they were). When the cards worked, they worked very well and were fast (as an example I had a 3870 which I had to RMA but it was definitely slower in CoD4 than my current 8800GT). Also nVidia card partners are WAAAY better than ATI partners (much better warranties and my Palit has a very nice cooler on it).

 

[error8]

I love my 8800 GT right now. Didn't had a problem with it and it's fast. I also loved my 7600 GT, had it for one year , great overclocker and a best for a 17 inch CRT.

My 6600 GT on the other hand aged very fast, but still was a good card. The black sheep from my Nvidia collection was the FX5700. That card struggled in pretty much any game at medium to high settings. Of course, it was a mid range card, but to weak even for that. The rest is ATI and Trident history.

 

[Ackmed]

Im inclined to vote the second option, but its not entirely true. Voted the last option. I dont think they suck. Both AMD and NV have issues, and bugs, overall I think they are very comparable. I do think that NV's naming scheme, small amount of official drivers, and far too many beta versions are a problem. Its all confusing, the numbers dont make any sense, and there are new versions of beta drivers that promise some sort of fix or boost every week it feels like. I do wish they would go with some sort of naming like AMD does. I can tell what month, and year the drivers came out, just by the name. It makes sense, and there isnt 50 different drivers out a year, just 12, sometimes 13.

 

[SinxarKnights]

Overall I am fairly satisifed with their products. Then again I am fairly satisfied with most computer hardware I buy. I try not to purchase blindly. I just wish they didn't get rid of the old control panel for their graphics cards... I HATE the new CP!

 

[bfdd]

I've been extremely happy with my hardware, the only problems I've had are drivers because I run Vista 64 and they were just god awful in the beginning they're getting MUCH MUCH better now and I'm not seeing the big performance difference I had from XP 32 to Vista 64.

 

[sutahz]

Originally posted by: sisq0kidd
Questions are sort of loaded, not to mention slightly ridiculous. I think a more objective option would be:

Extremely satisfied
Mostly satisfied
Satisfied
Somewhat unsatisfied
Very Unsatisfied

Eh, but at least there was an option for me on your pohl, which is "I am fairly satisfied."

It's your thread so you can be as biased as you want but if you want your poll to have any real meaning it should be unbiased.

 

[Skunkwourk]

I have liked all of my Nvidia cards. Just wish my 6800GT lasted more than 3 years. However, I have to admit, the card I was most happy with was the 9700 pro.

 

[Schadenfroh]

No complaints about their graphics cards / drivers. I have been almost completely nVidia exclusive since 3dfx's demise (bought 1 AMD card in the meantime, but I will save my rants about ATI's recent AGP card driver problems for another day. )

Toshiba not updating the drivers for the nVidia 7900GS on my laptop on the other hand:|

I am disappointed with their nForce 3 driver support record (to the point that I will probably never buy another nforce again), the last XP driver update has Blue Screen of Death problems (the 5.10 drivers in the archive work fine, but they have not been updated since 2004). They also have not fixed the nforce3 vista driver issue that hinders dual core users with ATI graphics cards.

 

[LostPassword]

black screen of death, so i'm unsatisfied atm.

edit: new drivers still didn't work
edit#2: some dude on evga forums stating turning down shader core speed fixed his problem. i just did that and so far so good.

 

[TC91]

cant find a decent set of display drivers that work with every game that i have, or ones that dont give me a bsod every so often so i ll have to say im not too satisfied

 

[apoppin]

the last NVIDIA GPU i had was 8800GTS-640OC and i'd have said "very satisfied" except i kept the 2900xt as it won in the bang-for-buck department for me [$70 cheaper and it included Orange Box]

the other 2 NVIDIA GPUs i have owned were also very nice but i have purchased ATi/AMD 4 to 1 over NVIDIA GPUs ... mostly because of timing and my own personal situations ... this time 2900xt appeard to be a good long-range choice back in May for me still ... i plan to pair it with 3870x2 for a Tri-FrankenFire solution that will come close to a GX2 in my rig

 

[secretanchitman]

Originally posted by: Burrich
I have liked all of my nVidia products. Everything has worked correctly, decently priced, and has laster longer than the same generation CPU.

definitely agree with you there.

 

[nOOky]

I'm satisfied with my current nvidia card, an 8800GT, but driver support is lacking. Looking for newer, possibly more optimized drivers still shows the drivers from dec 19 07. Bah. My spare computer uses an X1950XT still, and ATI's latest drivers gave me a nice little performance boost for free. Nice, support for a 18 month old card is better than nvidia.
I buy whatever the best price/performance leader is at the time when I upgrade, and I still think the 8800GT is the sweet spot despite the drivers. I should mention the cooling solution sux, but I knew that buying the card.
I may definitely buy another and go sli, but a single card plays my current games adequately, and since Crysis sux (as far as I'm concerned) and I don't play it it can wait a while yet., as there is nothing else I plan to play that taxes an 8800GT as of now.
Sorry for the run-on sentence.

 

[bryanW1995]

Originally posted by: nRollo

Originally posted by: Aberforth
I thought it would be nice to create this survey, if you own a nvidia graphics card I'd like you to vote how far are you satisfied with it. Like if you've spent 600 bucks on a graphics card - were you expecting 100% value for money or were you ready to cope with numrous hardware/software and performance issues that are going to occur?

Before voting, please consider the following categories:

Performance, Value for money, reliability and product lifespan.


I've just read nvidia is going to acquire VIA...That's right pals, they are in talks with VIA. During the past few years we've seen various attempts by big companies to acquire smaller ones like

AMD ---> ATi
MS ---> Yahoo! (in talks)
Nvidia ---> PhysX
Nvidia ----> VIA (in talks)

and so on. So we can conclude as revenue increases incompetency increases aswell, this creates a window of oppurtunity for new players which is not a bad thing after all.

I would love to see NVIDIA get a X86 license.

As their chips are already significantly more complex than any CPU, it would be interesting to see what they could do with CPU design.

They could conceivably become the "800 lb gorilla" of computing.

As far as the poll goes, I really don't see the point other than to start a flame war, given the skewed nature of the poll.

Gee, only 4 of the 5 choices are slams at NVIDIA. :roll:

I honestly don't understand posts/polls like this, would seem to be pointing us down the road Keys was trying to avoid with his stickied post at the top of the forum.

yes, the poll looks to be anti-nvidia in nature. but have you noticed thus far that only 19 posts are decidedly anti nvidia while the other 38 are either fairly or completely satisfied. Most of us are highly technical in nature, so really it's not much of a stretch to say that "fairly satisfied" is a pretty positive statement.