NVIDIA or ATI/Intel or AMD?

[BannedDPS]

I'm interested in what people have or prefer for their builds. Personally I prefer NVIDIA cards with Intel processors, which is what I have now.

[stev]

I'd go NIVIDIA with AMD I use to be more fond of intel but I feel like AMD has really stepped up there game and have started making better processors .

[Hypers]

intel+nvidia because intel processors are faster and nvidia cards are better with intels.

[Dooby the potato god]

I prefer AMD and NVIDIA

[Human]

intel + ATI

[Blueeyes]

I used to like AMD back a few years ago, I thought I was getting the best bang for my buck and Intel users were dumb lol.

Changed my mind now. I love intel! AMD is still a great bang for your buck, but when it comes to whos the top... intel takes the cake.

I've done a few builds with AMD, Athlon and FX based... they all seem to run pretty cool. I mean, the athlon with stock cooler idles at 16C (Not sure though, core temp and the bios might be fooling me) with a ambient of like 20C. The FX was with a gaming build, didn't do so well since NO games take advantage of 6 cores lol. But I overclocked it to 4ghz stable and idle temp of 30C with a Hyper 212 cooler.

Nvidia... never went with the radeons. I never really bothered. NVidia makes the best cards and has the best drivers available right now. The 690s are badass. Id take the GTX 690 over the 7990 any day. When it comes to the lower cards, ATI might have the advantage since they are cheaper.

In conclusion, Intel and NVidia for me :D

[CharlieHorse]

AMD with NVIDIA, or Intel with ATI.
Both work great! :)

[Syvelocin]

My dad built me an AMD + NVIDIA. I'm not really good with all the hardware stuff; I was very specific about the NVIDIA card though, and he chose the processor. Love this thing to death.

[Rayquaza]

NVIDIA + NVIDIA. My Phone's CPU is apparently NVIDIA (Tegra 3) and it runs so fast with amazing graphics.

[Dark_Desires]

Intel+Ati/AMD for many reasons which i can go into for hours and refrence the currently 23 systems i have built.Intel make the top chips now days but a FX 8350 AMD top chip is on price and par with a 3570K.Thay havent made a good cpu since the Phenom 2 days and there still good.Next thing is


I used to like AMD back a few years ago, I thought I was getting the best bang for my buck and Intel users were dumb lol.

Changed my mind now. I love intel! AMD is still a great bang for your buck, but when it comes to whos the top... intel takes the cake.

I've done a few builds with AMD, Athlon and FX based... they all seem to run pretty cool. I mean, the athlon with stock cooler idles at 16C (Not sure though, core temp and the bios might be fooling me) with a ambient of like 20C. The FX was with a gaming build, didn't do so well since NO games take advantage of 6 cores lol. But I overclocked it to 4ghz stable and idle temp of 30C with a Hyper 212 cooler.

Nvidia... never went with the radeons. I never really bothered. NVidia makes the best cards and has the best drivers available right now. The 690s are badass. Id take the GTX 690 over the 7990 any day. When it comes to the lower cards, ATI might have the advantage since they are cheaper.

In conclusion, Intel and NVidia for me :D

Your wrong both AMD and Nvidias drivers are good and bad and have both always had issues.Also what about the New AMD drivers been super stable and giving a huge new performance boost to the 7 series.And AMD beats Nvidia in price/Performance up untill 500$ a 7700 Beats a 650 7950 beats a 660ti and 7970 is on par/better than a GTX 670.And AMD is still cheaper.Point is AMD is better performance for less money which 60% of the market consists of people on a budget.I made my arguement for Intel+ATI/AMD.When it comes to GPU's segment it comes down to Price/Performance and then VS cards and currently AMD/ATI wins.

[Infidelitas]

I have NVIDIA 2GB graphics card and 3rd Gen Intel processor

[Korab]

Intel i7 xtreme , nvidia GeForce gtx 650 Ti

[Blueeyes]

Your wrong both AMD and Nvidias drivers are good and bad and have both always had issues.Also what about the New AMD drivers been super stable and giving a huge new performance boost to the 7 series.And AMD beats Nvidia in price/Performance up untill 500$ a 7700 Beats a 650 7950 beats a 660ti and 7970 is on par/better than a GTX 670.And AMD is still cheaper.Point is AMD is better performance for less money which 60% of the market consists of people on a budget.I made my arguement for Intel+ATI/AMD.When it comes to GPU's segment it comes down to Price/Performance and then VS cards and currently AMD/ATI wins.

I've had horrible experiences with the catalyst software myself. While they might have changed now, I will still go with Nvidia.

I will go with you on that AMD wins price-wise. But this thread is about what is preferred among VT pc builders. What if you have no budget? Who would you go with? Intel or AMD? Nvidia or Radeon? I would assume Intel + Nvidia due to their clean record and reviews, plus they are the most innovative out of the contenders.

Don't get me wrong, I like AMD and what they put out. The FX Series is great. But, for my builds (I've done 10+) I like to stick with Intel because I've never had a issue with them.

[TheMatrix]

Intel + nVidia, it's the combination I use daily.

On my laptop, CUDA allows for making compilation much faster. I don't know if ATI has a similar thing.
On my desktop, even though it's rather old hardware, my GeForce FX 5500 still allows for amazing graphics with surprisingly little CPU usage(OpenGL processing takes place on the graphics chip).

However, Intel + Intel is probably the best choice, because Intel is the only big graphics vendor that actually provides good GNU/Linux drivers. nVidia's and ATI's are very much garbage.

[Steve Jobs]

Intel + nVidia. CUDA, Open-GL and acceleration. Even Apple's back to nVidia now!
I've got a better background of reliability records with AMD but ain't nobody got time to wait for slow expensive GPUs :P

Intel over AMD, war won hands-down.

[Dark_Desires]

I've had horrible experiences with the catalyst software myself. While they might have changed now, I will still go with Nvidia.

I will go with you on that AMD wins price-wise. But this thread is about what is preferred among VT pc builders. What if you have no budget? Who would you go with? Intel or AMD? Nvidia or Radeon? I would assume Intel + Nvidia due to their clean record and reviews, plus they are the most innovative out of the contenders.

Don't get me wrong, I like AMD and what they put out. The FX Series is great. But, for my builds (I've done 10+) I like to stick with Intel because I've never had a issue with them.

Nvidia does not have a clean record.Both AMD and Nvidia have had so much crap go on and are as bad as each other.And i was only quoting you in the GFX department.Still i think its true when money is no object i would take a 690 over a 7970 fair point.