Radeon or GeForce

[Nose Nuggets]

i have had pretty equal success with both.

lately i have been on an ATI kick, had a 5850 before and a 6990 now - i have been really happy.

at the $500 price point i wouldnt say either one is drastically better then the other. One thing to keep in mind is nVidia has the built in phys-x chip which can be nice.

[Antihero47]

I went with a factory overclocked GTX580... the MSI Lightning. People have over clocked the crap outa this thing but I'm running stock for BF3.

[Mute]

Whenever I use an ATI/AMD graphics card, I always have to screw around with drivers for different games. I don't seem to have that issue with Nvidia cards. Once I get it right on an Nvidia, it stays right.

I can get cards from both manufacturers to work. Performance is a wash.

[Etihtsarom]

Just wait a couple months. 7000 series about to drop, current gen will go down in price.

[resident-shooter]

Just wait a couple months. 7000 series about to drop, current gen will go down in price.

Yea definitely worth the wait are high end 7000 series cards. 7970 will have 2050 cores vs 6970's 1530 cores. Memory should also be 1 ghz faster.

[Marcovich]

Flip a coin... Do you like Coke or Pepsi? Ford or Chevy? Mossberg or Remington? Both can be/are quality cards.