I've always had good luck with them. The one issue that I'll admit they do have is that their first revision or two of the drivers for any new card they put out can be twitchy. They'll work, if you work around it, but it's normally patched up within a few weeks with driver revisions (which ATI is actually pretty good about).Performance-wise? I can't complain. I don't know if it'll play Crysis (no interest in game, *shrugs*). But it does everything I want, very well, and reliably.Add in the cost-point, and it just gives ATI too many benefits to not at least consider.
There seem to be far too many people criticizing the new numbering scheme of ATi/AMD when they don't appear to have really looked into it. As you seem aware, the old Radeons used numbers like 7500 and 9800 with suffixes like pro, ultra and all this jazz. But recently, in the past couple of years, ATi realised they'd run out of numbers and so came up with this new scheme.You might say they're "going backwards", but then surely Adobe are going as backwards with their products, going from Photoshop 6 and 7 to CS1, 2 and 3 all of a sudden? There's no need to critisize the naming of their products, as it doesn't take too long to understand.The new naming convention relies on prefixes to distinguish from their older ancestors. Similarly to Adobe's CSs, ATi are now working on the "HD" series with products like the HD38xx and the HD48xx, so anything with HD on the front will most likely agree with this scheme. They also released an HD2xxx series, but no-one paid too much attention. The first number of the four is the series, or age of the card, where the higher numbers are newer models. The second is, as far as I can tell, the platform, similar to AMD and Intel mobile solutions. Finally, the last two digits represent what used to be the suffix. I'm not entirely sure why they chose "50" and "70", but that's equivalent to your old XTs and Pros.I hope that cleared any confusion with anyone.As for the card itself, it certainly looks schmexeh. I'd buy it myself, if I hadn't bought my 3870 three months ago...
Closed AccountMay 15, 2008
What marketing genius named it "Trojan"? lolz
stuffradioMay 16, 2008
I still have an NVIDIA 6600GT lol.Are the ATI cards really that much better than NVIDIA!? I am thinking about buying this when it comes out. :)
bjornskiMay 16, 2008
I've always had good luck with them. The one issue that I'll admit they do have is that their first revision or two of the drivers for any new card they put out can be twitchy. They'll work, if you work around it, but it's normally patched up within a few weeks with driver revisions (which ATI is actually pretty good about).Performance-wise? I can't complain. I don't know if it'll play Crysis (no interest in game, *shrugs*). But it does everything I want, very well, and reliably.Add in the cost-point, and it just gives ATI too many benefits to not at least consider.
gigaMay 16, 2008
You've only just noticed? Internet articles copy each other all the time...
chileangodMay 19, 2008
I still play with my 9600XT.
drucklesMay 27, 2008
There seem to be far too many people criticizing the new numbering scheme of ATi/AMD when they don't appear to have really looked into it. As you seem aware, the old Radeons used numbers like 7500 and 9800 with suffixes like pro, ultra and all this jazz. But recently, in the past couple of years, ATi realised they'd run out of numbers and so came up with this new scheme.You might say they're "going backwards", but then surely Adobe are going as backwards with their products, going from Photoshop 6 and 7 to CS1, 2 and 3 all of a sudden? There's no need to critisize the naming of their products, as it doesn't take too long to understand.The new naming convention relies on prefixes to distinguish from their older ancestors. Similarly to Adobe's CSs, ATi are now working on the "HD" series with products like the HD38xx and the HD48xx, so anything with HD on the front will most likely agree with this scheme. They also released an HD2xxx series, but no-one paid too much attention. The first number of the four is the series, or age of the card, where the higher numbers are newer models. The second is, as far as I can tell, the platform, similar to AMD and Intel mobile solutions. Finally, the last two digits represent what used to be the suffix. I'm not entirely sure why they chose "50" and "70", but that's equivalent to your old XTs and Pros.I hope that cleared any confusion with anyone.As for the card itself, it certainly looks schmexeh. I'd buy it myself, if I hadn't bought my 3870 three months ago...