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well i don't think nvidia shoul be worried. 3 years ago, i read about a new super chip that would wipe out all competitors because it's oohh-so-fast.

and what happend? sh!t happened in the end. and just because nobody gave that new chip a chance, rather the board manufacturers kept using known chips ike nvidia ones.

thus, i don't think anything major will happen in the graphicscard buisness.

 

ps: just think of kyro and how he's making in the buisness, great chip, but no manufacturer exept herules gives him a chance

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Agreed with the lack of competition in the market place with 3D chipsets. There needs to be major support from a major card manufacturer for an alternative to the nVidia family of chips. Same goes for Intel and processors, took a fair while for AMD to get their chip into a position where it is taking some substantial part of the chip market.

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nVidia has no reason to be worried, we haven't seen anything yet. What happened to the last chip that promised to be a threat to them? Rampage? They bought that company. ;)

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I have personally been waiting for Raden 8800 which would be overclocked and optimized version of 8500, but no words have come out from Ati about it.

 

Because I'm in desperate need of upgrading(actually I have to buy totally new PC) and been checking out development of different cards almost a year now, I thought about purchasing GeForce4 4400(from Creative). It's just a little more expensive than Radeon 8500 and it's core/memory is exactly same as in 8500: 275/550.

 

The thing is, Ati makes cards that has great potential, but they lack in driver department and even though they have put a lot more effort into them(take a look at this) lately, Nvidia is still the king in this part. I don't want to run into annoying bugs after paying so much AND I certainly don't want to wait for Ati to catch up performance of GeForce4 line of cards with every new driver update before their R300 appears to the shelfs in next autumn/winter.

 

Maybe next card after this(and I'm not going to buy a new one every year) will be made by some other company than Nvidia.

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