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Originally Posted by cintichris /forum/post/18246486
I wanted to try an ATI card, but since they were bought by AMD I figured NV would be better supported for my chipset.
Nah PCIe is a standard, what's behind the PCIe bus is generally of no consequence. I can't find the link right now, but I think there is something floating out there that ATI's is faster Intel than AMD platforms and nvidia is faster on AMD platforms than intel.
No ryhme or reason. Just get what works.
And as was mentioned earlier. Nvidia's HDMI audio solution sucks, it's no better than SPDIF (with some exceptions), but ATI's 4000 series had 8 channel LPCM integrated and the 5000 series adds HD-Audio bitstreaming to the 8 channel LPCM.
Also i have an ATI 4850 in my intel X58 based system (the 4850 replaced a long in the tooth geforce 7950 that I was very happy with) and a 5450 on a nForce 8200 mobo (that I had a geforce 8600GT in it that I was happy with, but didn't bitstream). I'm either buying on features or value, and right now ATI's got the market cornered on both. If it changes I'll go right back to nvidia.