poll: would you buy ATI if the yoffered triple head?

[The PIT]

Originally posted by Che Guevara
ATI?
Never again!!!!

Depends what you want to do. Game with all the eye candy. ATI
Work in 2d Matrox all the way.

[bsdgeek]

ATI?
Sure!!!!

Matrox?
Never again!!!!

[albatorsk]

If it had the same type of Triple Head functionality as my non-supported piece of shit Parhelia does, I'd buy it in an instant. Heck, anything would be an improvment over the card I'm stuck with a.t.m.

[The PIT]

I still hunger for 2d of Matrox.

[[GDI]Raptor]

No ATi ever again for me! then I rather buy a nVidia card, I HATE ATi drivers! Many complain about VIA and Creative, I never had any problems with them, but ATi... no comments!

[The PIT]

Originally posted by [GDI]Raptor
No ATi ever again for me! then I rather buy a nVidia card, I HATE ATi drivers! Many complain about VIA and Creative, I never had any problems with them, but ATi... no comments!

Thats becuase you're running it on a Via chipset.

[Che Guevara]

@[GDI]Raptor: You're damned right, but I complained about Via too, until I decided to buy their products no more.

@The PIT: I had a RF Maxx, nice card but worst support ever (2 driver releases, both terrible, no 2000 or xp driver ever) and that for a 600 DM card!!!
Further two of my friends use R8500 on i850 boards and one a Radeon 64 DDR Vivo on a Via board, stability and compatibility is very bad since they had bought them (for example, its always goes like this: new driver release, problems with generals solved, new problems with avp2 occur, and so on).

fanATIc = terrible drivers
nVidiot = benchmark cheaters
XGI = now, we will see

I will buy any sucessor of the P immediately.

[fleabus2]

"No ATi ever again for me! then I rather buy a nVidia card, I HATE ATi drivers! Many complain about VIA and Creative, I never had any problems with them, but ATi... no comments!"

I was a long time Matrox user. I started with Matrox with the original PCI Mystique through G200 Mystique, G400Max and Parhelia 512.

In Nov '02 I switched to an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, and have used it with a ViewSonic P817 21" CRT (primary) and ViewSonic P225f 22" CRT (secondary).

I recently switched to a Radeon 9800 XT 256MB card and changed my primary monitor to a Samsung SyncMaster 213T 21.3" TFT/DVI as primary.
Desktops have always been at 1600x1200 32bit 85Hz where possible. The TFT is 1600x1200 60Hz digital.

Though I had been spoiled by Matrox 2D, I felt the Radeons to be a very close second. nVidia I've seen on other rigs and to my eyes would be a distant third for 2D.
Just like with Matrox, I've always updated my Radeons to the latest drivers, DirectX version and have never once had a problem.
I don't over-clock, use Intel chipsets only and follow the mfr's install and driver/software update instructions exactly.
Triple head properly implemented by ATI would be nice for me if it
were on the TV out. On the right of my two monitors is a 36" Sony, further away with an apparent size of ~17".
I didn't need something extra like triple-head to get me to buy ATI.
If Matrox offered a card that was as good as ATI in 3D, the slightly better 2D and better multi-head implementation would bring me back.
In their own ways, ATI and Matrox both produce excellent products. I can happily buy from either one depending on what features I need.

[leech]

One thing I do like about the Parhelia is the interface they have for the drivers. It's not over-cluttered and filled with a billion options that just confuse most people. (for instance, Byock can tell first hand about trying to get his AIW 9800 to work with his HD-TV....) I just wish Matrox would release a newer/faster Parhelia. Some of the newer games coming out are running quite slow, and god forbid you try to run anything newer with triple-head! (X2: The Threat and Deus Ex 2 come to mind...)

Leech