Going to be upgrading my PC, need advice on parts.

[Ethan]

ATI may be cheaper, but you'll most likely have trouble with it. My friend and my brother have ATI and have driver problems all the time.

I've had to uninstall nVidia drivers twice on 2 different computers because they caused each computer to not boot. This is with 2 totally different computers, 2 totally different video cards.

With my main computer, which is ATi, I have absolutely no problem with the drivers and find them easier to install and catalyst is pretty awesome.

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[General Nick]

I've had to uninstall nVidia drivers twice on 2 different computers because they caused each computer to not boot. This is with 2 totally different computers, 2 totally different video cards.

With my main computer, which is ATi, I have absolutely no problem with the drivers and find them easier to install and catalyst is pretty awesome.

I've really never had problems with ATI or Nvidia.
The ATI Radeon 9550 I had so long ago was fine but just low-spec.
The Geforce 6800XT I used to have was fine but died (was old anyway).
The Geforce 8600GT I used to have was fine but low-spec just like the Radeon 9550.
The Geforce 9800GT I have right now is great, but heats up like a whore.

I've never had driver problems with any. I had to update my drivers for my 9550 to get BnW2 to work when it came out though thats it lol.

[Ethan]

I've really never had problems with ATI or Nvidia.
The ATI Radeon 9550 I had so long ago was fine but just low-spec.
The Geforce 6800XT I used to have was fine but died (was old anyway).
The Geforce 8600GT I used to have was fine but low-spec just like the Radeon 9550.
The Geforce 9800GT I have right now is great, but heats up like a whore.

I've never had driver problems with any. I had to update my drivers for my 9550 to get BnW2 to work when it came out though thats it lol.

I made sure I selected the right drivers, triple checked. Maybe they stopped supporting the cards (rather old, 6200 and 7600) and wanted to ruin them by making a faulty driver?

With the 6200, the driver caused the whole system to crash because of an incompatibility between Vista and the A8N-VM CSM board, even though I had flashed the bios to make it compatible. The machine is now unusable.