The Making of an ATI Graphics Card

wow thats one shitty pc

I alternate between nvidia and ati.
I do agree ati cards put out too much heat.
But I am angrry that both companies are making their cards longer and longer so that mid sized cases are many times too small for the cards. Grrr! stop that!

my rig

HP SLIMLINE S3400Z CTO(CONFIGURE TO ORDER)
2.9GHZ AMD ATHLON DUAL CORE 64 BIT
4GBS OF CRUCIAL PC2 6400 RAM
250GB SATA 7200RPM HARD DRIVE
MSI ATI RADEON HD 4550(OVERCLOCKED) 1GB PCI E 16X 2.0 DDR3
WITH UP TO 2GBS HYPER MEMORY(LOW PROFILE)
16X DVD(+/-)R/RW 12X RAM (+/-)R DL LIGHTSCRIBE SATA
VISTA HOME PREMIUM 32 BIT

go nvidia

Well nVidia is actually waiting for windows 7 along with it's DX 11 to become more mainstream before launching it's 300 series cards that of coarse are being built to outperform ATi in every aspect ATi only recently stepped it's game up now after being terribly outsold by the nVidia 200 series cards and I think they jumped the gun just look at all the driver issues

Nvidia hasn't released a card for awhile now, so ATi has really capitalised on the market with their awesome cards

@Vardaracon Yes they do FireGL V8650

sweet next upgrade ill keep both in mind. But im not going to bother untill i see a mass about of direct x 11 games so far aliens vs pred is the only one im intrested in.

@Vardaracon The FireGL V8650 Currently competes with Nvidias Quadro Series

The Tesla Series is COMPLETY Different from video cards
FireGL and Quadro Are NOT meant For gaming though they are workstation is what Scientist and Hollywood uses to render their imagines. But these cards are 1000-1500 bucks

So they dont have it on gaming cards yet.