Who makes the best ATi Video Cards?

[JigPu]

My vote is based on experience with both a BBA and Sapphire card. Both were awesome cards, so I voted for the one that I think was slightly better (not gonna tell since it was basically coin flipping ).

Sapphire is very comparible to BBA cards. Sapphire actually builds some of ATi's cards for them, so buying either are very similar since there's a good chance it came out of the Sapphire factory

JigPu

 

[bettsr]

ATI please

 

[Makkarah]

Since there's no option for me, I'll just say HIS.

 

[ZGOZZ]

ATI look at the XT

This card is sweet.

 

[caddyg1]

I vote ATI w/ Samsung memory. I found out that anyother card without sammy mem wont overclock very well at all

 

[Dragonprince]

Id say Retail ATI is the best. Sapphire is a very close second...the rest are "also" rans

 

[mrnuke]

BBA is the only way to go if you want to get high core clocks

 

[fazz33]

where excalubure i use one (its awsome, super nice oc on 9600pro 490/348)though they are porbably mostly unheard of its pretty good company, oh and nice samsung ram

 

[wanna_b_rich_13]

where excalubure i use one (its awsome, super nice oc on 9600pro 490/348)though they are porbably mostly unheard of its pretty good company, oh and nice samsung ram

Never heard of them. I thought I covered most of them.

 

[David]

where excalubure i use one (its awsome, super nice oc on 9600pro 490/348)though they are porbably mostly unheard of its pretty good company, oh and nice samsung ram

PM a mod if you need the poll edited.

 

[fazz33]

mehh doesnt matter but...i also have a sapphire 9200 it work really good for the time i had it so i will vote sapphire, oh and i forgot my 9600pro is HIS Excalibur (spelt it wrong before) here is its main site http://www.hightech.com.hk/html/VGA.htm

 

[E_tron]

It isn't in the pole, but don't get an HIS built card. They get artifacts at stock speeds(which are already lower than ATI's spec). They don't OC well at all. I've seen 3 HIS cards and they all follow the same path.

I say "Biult by ATI". I have a biult by ATI 9500 PRO and it can do 360/310 with stock cooling.

I bought saphire 9500NP and it didn't OC well(310/280). I couldn't even get the 8 pixel pipelines out of it. Maybe this was a bad card, so i am not against sapphire.

 

[fazz33]

i have an HIS it overclocks like crazy im 4th in 9600pro oc list. I think they make nice cards.

 

[AmpCoder]

I say ATI..

 

[slater3333uk]

I would say sapphire but bare in mind that we cant get BBA cards in the uk so im not including them in my desision

 

[mattspalace]

I've been pretty happy with my Tyan Tachyon..but it doesn't really overclock any higher than any of the others.
The hardware monitoring is a nice option though. I'm not sure if Tyan still includes hardware monitoring on their 9800's or not.

 

[cf79]

BBA!

Yeah, I'm using a Saph right now.. Sue me. It was $40 cheaper and performs just as well..

 

[vkvenom]

My ATI has been kicking ars !

 

[Axis]

How about FIC? I like mine.

 

[craig588]

Kinda funny all you guys saying either its very close between Sapphire and ATI.

Sapphire makes some of ATIs BBA cards for them.

Sapphires cards are identical to BBAs except they are like 10-20$ cheaper.