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get in, i just bought a gaming PC in parts, got a 560 ti 448, about to build it tonight and i get this great news, awesome day
this is why although ATI can produce good products at very competitive prices, Nvidia is and pretty much always has been the best choice for PC gamers - their driver support is fantastic. they've been known to slip here and there but even then the quality of their drivers is still usually better.
Fucking awesome, can't wait until DOTA2 gets it's final build and is optimized properly, optimus isn't having much fun with it atm.
@psycho terror2
ATI is dead it's all AMD now. Anyway AMD is actually changing to Nvidia's driver style now. Instead of rigidly enforcing the monthly driver update cycle they're going to do more betas and CAPS and only release WHQL drivers when there is something significant. I think this will go a long way towards helping the drivers improve.
ATI is dead it's all AMD now. Anyway AMD is actually changing to Nvidia's driver style now. Instead of rigidly enforcing the monthly driver update cycle they're going to do more betas and CAPS and only release WHQL drivers when there is something significant. I think this will go a long way towards helping the drivers improve.
I would hesitate to install a BETA driver that increases performance so much - Id be afraid to risk potential hardware burnout.
Not that I know enough about the architecture to have any idea if thats even possible to do, but Id still wait for the full release to see if theres any issues(especially if my card was also overclocked).
Not that I know enough about the architecture to have any idea if thats even possible to do, but Id still wait for the full release to see if theres any issues(especially if my card was also overclocked).
I'm really happy to see destructoid is giving more coverage to pc topics. This, and the Lian-Li case review are fantastic starts, but more is needed!
Happy for new drivers. Better fps is never a bad thing.
Happy for new drivers. Better fps is never a bad thing.
@Mechman and @Archromatis. Software changes cannot impact the architecture of the hardware because the architecture just refers to the design of the circuitry. However Archromatis is right to be cautious especially with an overclocked card. Software changes can be used to permanently effect the hardware of a card. Unless there are safety precautions built into the physical hardware, software is the only thing that both causes and prevents damage to the hardware.
@ Derangel
i know it's AMD now, but old habits die hard and i never bother to correct myself. to be fair i haven't had an ATI card since the 4870, which was the est card they had put out in years at the time. same story as it always was though, the hardware was good and cheap, but the features and support (while not totally crap) were noticeably inferior, and i couldn't get back to nvidia soon enough.
i won't be bothering to go back anytime soon.
i know it's AMD now, but old habits die hard and i never bother to correct myself. to be fair i haven't had an ATI card since the 4870, which was the est card they had put out in years at the time. same story as it always was though, the hardware was good and cheap, but the features and support (while not totally crap) were noticeably inferior, and i couldn't get back to nvidia soon enough.
i won't be bothering to go back anytime soon.
Nvidia all the way. I've never been a fan of Ati/AMD their model numbers confuse me, but maybe that's because I'm probably a bit of an Nvidia fanboy O.o
I have always been a performance within my pricerange fanboy however when I bought my hd 5770 Nvidea was just not an option as its cards did not offer triple screen support at that moment, my most recent upgrade was also amd but that was because I really got a sweat deal on my hd7950. If Nvidea at some point offers better performance at my price ranges like it did if I upgraded last year I would have had no trouble switching to nvidea however amd seems to win with me for some time now. as of driver updates giving big boosts usually in practice these results really are not that great, and amd also improves its performance slowly over time.
Good news for Nvidia owners. Free performance upgrades are the best performance upgrades. I wonder how the improvements scale to the lower models in the product line, e.g. 550Ti. Hopefully AMD will tighten up their driver development to keep pace, but their flagship cards as of now don't fare well against the GTX 670. Exciting times!
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