Quote Originally Posted by jettzypher View Post
ive heard that ati's work better paired with an AMD processor as compared to using an nvidia card. so lookin to get my hands on one for my next upgrade.
This kind of thing is why I prefer to avoid ATI like the plague. Of the 8 or so video cards i've been through on ~6 machines, the only ones that have performed consistently well (and artifact free) across the various motherboards/RAM configurations have been my NVidia cards. It didn't take me but a few episodes of spending several days trying to debug RAM settings and then finding out a simple switch to an NVidia card completely fixed the APC_INDEX_MISMATCH, POOL CALLER ???? and various other intermittent (and thus heinously irritating) blue screen issues to make me dread using ATIs. Not to mention having been part of OEM QA on some of AMD's chipset offerings of late... Granted, my last vid card swap-fest was around the time of the original GT2xx/ATI 4xxx series wars, so things may have gotten significantly better with the 5xxx series.

Sadly, it looks like NVidia has been dropping the ball badly the last year or so. I'm not sure where things go from here for me. Hopefully, sticking to the 75th percentile rule on video cards will keep me firmly behind the bleeding (read: buggy) edge.