Poll:Does the preliminary bench marks of HL2 affect your purchasing decision on a DX9 capable Video card?

[Sabreguy]

Well, I have both brands at one time, but now both of my computers are running Radeons....

Nothing too techie, but I just got sick and confused by the naming scheme by Nividia with their FX series.

ATI has it right, do it the Mercedes method, bigger number means faster card. 😛

 

[Mem]

I chose my 9700NP few months back because it was better value/performance over any Nvidia counterpart ,HL2 had no bearing ,however it`s nice to know it`ll run fine.

🙂

 

[Alkali]

I know for sure is that I am not buying another nVidia card until they can follow a flipping standard (ie. the DX9 api). And when it comes to ATi, next card I get I hope has 8x2 pixel pipelines, and the ability to do 32-bit precision (unless DX10 is already out obviously)....


But I dare to say we won't see DX10 for a long long time, so I think I'm going to get the next Radeon Pro after the 9800XT. (9900?).

In other words, yes the benchmarks have confirmed my ideas about how far from the standard nVidia went to try and wrap up the market. tut tut. It only points me in ATi's direction, as they can obviously design their cards very well, and follow these standards, lol.

 

[kmmatney]

Price/perfromance matter most for me, as long as drivers are reasonable. I have NVidia and ATI cards and like them both. I'm sure 1/2 life will be playable on my Ti4200. I won't buy it until it goes on sale anyways...

 

[nRollo]

i am a matrox fanboy, you have no option for us

Isn't that the truth? I would LOVE to buy a Matrox card if they could put out something even REMOTELY comparable. GF3 Ti200 level performance with no AA/AF just doesn't cut it these days.

 

[Rogodin2]

I'd be there for a decent performing matrox card 😉

TripleHead 🙂

rogo

 

[BFG10K]

Bring on the 9800TX/9900.

 

[merlocka]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
Bring on the 9800TX/9900.

Finally, the 3D graphics industry is interesting again.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: Rollo

i am a matrox fanboy, you have no option for us

Isn't that the truth? I would LOVE to buy a Matrox card if they could put out something even REMOTELY comparable. GF3 Ti200 level performance with no AA/AF just doesn't cut it these days.

Explain to me again what Matrox has done to earn our respect?

Nvidia climbed out of nothing, under the crippling weight 3dfx and fought the beast head on, losing over and over again to the proprietary API giant 3dfx until 3dfx collapsed under their own bloated weight. Then, instead of resting on their laurels, Nvidia came out with the most impressive and agressive 6-month product cycle in the Video card market, and single-handedly drove the Video card market to new heights.

ATI has gone from low-end darling/high-end failure to repeatedly being trumped by Nvidia (Rage 128, Rage 128 Pro, Rage Fury Maxx, Radeon). They finally got their foot in the door with the 8500 (which was trumped yet again by the GF4) and took the performance lead, so to speak, with 9700 Pro.

Matrox has refused to learn from their mistakes (for entering the top-of-the-line market) and continually stayed behind the trends.

The only thing Matrox has done which I would give them a lot of respect for is the Parhelia. It failed worse than anything, but they tried their hardest. Perhaps the Parhelia's it's biggest obstacle was Matrox's ambition, but we still got some good things from it. The Parhelia probably piqued ATI's interest into the 256-bit memory bus, for one.

 

[Sunny129]

my mind was made up about going with ATI way before these benchmarks, but not b/c i knew it would perform so well in HL2. in fact, my decision had nothing to do w/ HL2. i never played HL, and don't plan on playing HL2 for fear that it will interfere with my studies...i play enough games as it is. rather i made up my mind based on the fact that ATI pulls way ahead of nVidia with AA/AF enabled. i think ATI simply makes a better product these days. and if nVidia ever moves back to the top, i'll go with their card. but ubtil then, i'm getting an ATI.

 

[nRollo]

Explain to me again what Matrox has done to earn our respect?

Always had the best 2d quality of any video card?

Besides that, I'd just like to try something besides ATI or nVidia. The video card market didn't used to be boring like this in the distant past. We used to have to choose between nVidia, ATI, Rendition, 3dfx, S3, and Matrox. (and Intel or Trident if you were poor or dumb)

Now we fight over trivial differences on 2 chips that run every game acceptably, with the notable exception of the upcoming DX9 games.

That makes it even MORE pathetically boring- there's only ONE card you can even consider at this point in time if you have to buy a card now and are a serious gamer.
Woohoo. Hurray for freedom of choice, all bow to your Canadian overlord.