Quote Originally Posted by Ughmahedhurtz View Post
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.
Story is the same for both ATI and nVidia. Each have their own issues. In the big scheme of things they are generally equal aside for a few anomallies. You'll get people that have had nothing but issues with nVidia cards and people that say the same about ATI.

It should come down to who has the best performance at each price point. Just as with processors, the competition in the video card market benefits consumers.