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Hi all,ok so I'm looking at getting a new video card and it is a Asus EAH5670 with 1GB of DDR5 Ram,now here is the thing I would like to know,a few years back I remeber alot of my friends got ATI cards and pretty much all 5 of them had problems with there Video cards mainly they just would not play all the games hat were out at the time and they all had the same problem there cards were not the same one was an ASUS and one was a Visiontek and not sure of the rest but alot of games they were supposed to be able to play they could not,it was not because they were not powerful enough they just would not interface with the games propperly.To better explain this I had two friends the one guy had a Visiontek card the other guy had a ASUS card,now here is the strange thing both cards had the same ATI chipset's and the same specs and there pPC's had more than enough Ram and CPU to run the game according to the box as I tried to help the both but olny the ASUS card would run the game they were trying to play,keep in mind this was a while ago and I'm not sure of the cards or game it was,but the thing I'm wanting to know does ATI still have a bad Rap that way or are there better now.

I'm looking at at the Asus EAH5670 or a 450 Nivdia of some sort,Ihave just heard that the ATI cards can be really fussy.

Just seen at the about not asking for purchasing advice,I'm not really wanting any purchasing advice to be clear I would just like to be informed about the ATI cards and if they have known issuse's and if they can be a fussy card to get along with as compared to an Nivida card.

What is your budget, games you play, and monitor resolution?





Ted

I've had no issues from my ATI cards. The one from 5 years ago is still going strong.

I have a Viewsonic 24 inch 2MS response time Monitor they sell at Tiger for 209.00 and it is 1080P 1920x1080 if anyone is going to reccomend a card please keep in mind that I need a single slot card.

why do you need a single slot card? What do you have in your machine that isn't on your motherboard?

Where my Harddrive sit's is the problem there is not enough room to for a double width card and ASUS confired this.

What case is it?
Also, what psu are you running? Is this an OEM system?





Ted

What Tedster said. Seems wierd a case can't do a 2 slot card, even with todays smaller 2 slot cards. Your HDD would have to sitting in theexpansion slot area.