well... I will agree with the statement about my Ati drivers NOT being bad...
I have had both nvidia and ati cards for 3 years now.. I gave away my nvidia card coz my ati card had better dvd software... but thats besides the point..
I have never had any issues... cept for the open GL fix for counter-strike in the 2.5 years I have owned ati cards... I have NEVER had an issue with them..
now if you are going be hearsay and saying ati cards have bad drivers well.. I dunno mate.. maybe you should try em out first..
my original post was just intended to let people know that a new card had arrived on the scene and that it was FAST... you can say anything you want about
www.anandtech.com but you can't say they are biased.. they do their research on all products they test and I have been following their info on products BECAUSE of this unbiased reporting..
there is nothing to say the the next gen nvidia cards are not going to be faster... they are after all using 0.13 micron technology v/s the 0.15 the current version of the 9700 employs.. but remember the 9700 will move to the smaller 0.13 technology later this year and there is another Ati card coming out... the ati 10000 which is faster than the 9700 right now... by a fair margin..
sure Nvidia will crank up the clock speeds... but the fact remains that right now there is nothing on the market that will match the 9700 when it goes on retail..
remember the parhelia.. everyone was gungho and whatnot about it... but it SANK coz of shyte performance all around.. it can't even compete with cards from 2 gens ago...
the 9700 on the other hand has been proven to work and it works very well...
trash ati but give them credit for a decent product in the 9700 for petes sake...