Hi,

In message , EggHd
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That's true. It actually hurt Nvidia's cred in the gaming community.

Is the Nvidia and Radion (sp) video cards pretty much equal?

My take is frankly, if you're main interest is audio, then any
difference doesn't matter one iota. The 'fight' was over 3D performance,
which is where a very vocal small minority makes a very loud noise over
performance, because they can't stand to have a friend with a 'faster'
system than they have.

It matters only for games. In 'real' apps (the ones people earn money
with in the audio world) most of us should pay far more attention to
driver stability and compatibility than 3D benchmark performance.

If you run 3D Studio Max, Lightwave or Maya for a living, then ignore
the above comment, and read the feedback on their respective forums
about performance, then choose. If you want to run Quake, then does the
difference between 140 and 150 frames per second really matter?

FWIW, the new Radeon 9800 and the newest nVidia top spec chips are both
killers in 3D, but you can dry your hair with the fans on those boards,
so IMO, they don't make a great choice for a DAW. Too damned noisy, and
bus greedy. Better to go for a card with good 2D performance, good
compatibility, well behaved drivers and good image quality, preferably
with passive cooling. Then put a killer 3D card in your gaming rig, or
buy an X-box. Caveat: I work for Matrox. We don't really do gaming
cards, but I might just be biased anyway ;-)

"I know enough to know I don't know enough"

I'm gonna steal this sig one day :-)

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Regards,
Glenn Booth