The Ouranos Blog

A rant about video cards

by Ouranos on Mar.18, 2010, under Uncategorized

So another post from me today. For those of you in the tech know, you may have heard of nvidia’s next-gen gaming video cards, the GTX470 and 480, based on their new codenamed “Fermi” GPU chip. These things look great in my opinion. i see alot of potential coming from the Green Gurus, and really hoping the Red Stain will be lifted from the walls you see of the internet. I can’t wait to get my hands on a 470 so I can compare it to my lovely little GTX275, see how it stacks up. Maybe if I’m lucky my humble little site will be allowed a sample for testing. I doubt it, but hey, we can all dream, eh?

As far as my opinion of ATI… uck. The hardware is there, the potential is there, but Catalyst will ALWAYS, and I mean ALWAYS AND FOREVER, keep me from those cards. Too many bad experiences with their crappy, poorly written software over the time I had my only ATI card in my life that I know better then to ever go back to that filth.