Quality Gamers

I'm afraid that I have to go with nVidia on this one. I swore off of Ati a while back and nVidia's latest release is screaming fast.

Im not a big fan of ATI aswell, i have had too much problems with their cards.

I've always heard that ATI graphics cards were superior to Nvidia cards, but that's back in the day when AMD processors were better for gaming than Intel processors.

Nowadays I think that Nvidia and ATI cards are pretty much tied...Nvidia comes out with better ones faster though.
I would get an ATI because they're equally good really and ATI cards are just noticeably cheaper than Nvidia.

ATI Cards are absolutely terrible under Linux, I can't trust them on Windows, too.

I support Nvidia. I have had two Ati cards and I was really disappointed with them.

ATI > NVidia

And there's only one reason it needs to be: ATI VPU Recover

I have a total of 3 "gaming" capable PCs around me, 2 desktops and a laptop.

My main rig ATI x1550 512mb
Laptop ATI Radeon Xpress 128mb
My Girlfriend's rig - NVidia 6100 256mb

I'm not even going to include my main rig's in this comparison, it's obviously going to be better than the other 2.

But, I've noticed with many games that my Laptop will play and display any/all graphics MUCH better (and with less hassle of settings) than my girlfriend's.
WoW for example:
Laptop - 50-60 FPS medium settings - 30-40 FPS max settings
Girlfriend's desktop - 30-40 FPS medium settings - 10-20 FPS max settings
(Using WoW for an example is perfect in my opinion, it doesn't take much to run so getting more FPS on an older system with an older gfx card isn't right)

We've tried MANY games together just to find when i multibox using my laptop, my laptop's performance is much greater than my girlfriend's.
Tabula Rasa
WarCraft III
Arx Fatalis (not multiplayer)
2Moons
Magic World Online
Halo
Black and White 1 and 2
Freelancer
etc, etc, etc...

Another thing i noticed (which i LOVE about ATI) is that when the graphics begin to fuck up (due to heat, glitches, etc) ATI will reset itself, monitor goes out for a couple seconds and you're back to normal. With NVidia, it likes to try and "play through" any problems like that and requires an entire system restart to get rid of it.