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Originally posted by Sassyass
Does it really matter if one card is doing 100 FPS @12x24 and the other card only does 95?* The marketing on these cards is silly. With most of the functions, you will never tell the difference between the two. If you used Gforce in the past keep using it. It's a great card. I know the Carmack and the Doom boys are writing their games for the ATI but who cares...
Buy the cheaper of the two and spend whats left on RAM
Can the human eye tell the difference between 100FPS and 90 FPS?*
Is a 2.5Ghz really that much faster than a 2.4Ghz?
*JUST PULLING NUMBERS OUT OF MY ASS TO MAKE A POINT
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I also think that it's a good point and a tough question to answer. I guess that I'm mainly thinking about longitivity of the card. Sooner or later your card will start to lose it's luster, I had a Geforce 3 Ti-500 card and games like Mafia and Battlefield 1942 didn't look as great as they should've, I couldn't jack up all of the graphics that much. As a gamer, I enjoy playing the game the way that it was made to look, so in order to do that, you always need the best.
As far as getting second best, I'm actually thinking about just going for the Radeon right now, saving money and actually being able to get the card now without waiting.
As far as the features go though, right now, the cards may sound neck and neck, but as months go on and games start taking advantage of what the Geforce FX can do, I think that it's gonna show a greater gap in the performance charts.