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Who makes the best ATi Video Cards?

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Who do you think makes the best ATi Cards?

  • ATi themselves

    Votes: 374 47.8%
  • Powercolor

    Votes: 37 4.7%
  • Sapphire

    Votes: 276 35.3%
  • Gexcube

    Votes: 3 0.4%
  • Asus

    Votes: 63 8.1%
  • Hercules

    Votes: 29 3.7%

  • Total voters
    782
I vote for ATI all the way. I have a 9600xt clocked at 570 and 340, and its still taken games like Doom3 out so im gonna go with ATI. Although people i know have the saphire 9800pro which they flashed to a xt so that proves that both are good.
But you know what they say cant beat the originality
 
I'd say ATI but since Sapphire are knocking the same cards out cheaper then it's got to be Sapphire. :)
 
i got a sapphire 9800 pro because it was much cheaper than the ati. can someone enlighten me on how it is different than the bba in any way?
 
I don't have a lot to do with more modern ATis, mainly due to funds, but I get the impression that "The best" is often on a core type by core type basis. For instance I remember Saphire being best for 8500s for a while, Powercolor seems to be the card to get for moddable 9800SEs, ATi's seem most overclockable for the top of the line, GeXcube seems best now for 9550s, etc etc.
 
Sapphire makes some quality cards--think I've owned about 4 now and they have all been flawless, my sapphire 9800np even allowed a core oc of 460+ w/ stock cooling :eek:. Their stock cooling may not be much, but who overclocks a card w/ the stock hsf? ;)
 
Mine is by crucial but it says by ATI so I voted them. I just won this in a contest by crucial and Gamers depot, sure hope it plays doom 3 ok :clap:
 
my vote went to ati themselves. i've owned two ati cards, and both of them have been great.
 
what most people fail to realize..is most of them are the same I have an Asus but after searching high and low and reviewing everything I could, it seems as very few card makers stray from the "reference " design, it was more of which card was in stock and could be had for a reasonable price. I think the person to ask and whom I did ask was ViperJohn. I think he has used and experienced more ATI designed cards from more manufacturers than anyone (here at least). He stated again that very few card manufacturers will stray from the original reference design. The main differences will be seen in chip variances and ram variances, as you would get from any batch of cards. Just because ATI builds it doesn't mean they didn't use a chip that barely made the grade. It's pot luck really. The design and build are are usually the same except for the manufacturers that use non reference cooling solutions. So really this thread leads to fanboy-ism because everyone will either praise or bash a card based on ownership experience.
 
I have a ASUS 9600XT.. I like it, keeps cool, and has a awesome heatsink. I was looking at the sapphire but the ASUS had VIVO and was cheaper. Can't buy ATi cards where I go. Soo, ASUS for me. :-D Oh and never PowerColor!!! seen two of the 9600Pros either die, or run really slow :-|... What I've seen of all the cheap ATi brands is they all are the same card, just different print on the heatsink.. they will all do the same i reckon... ATi just makes it cheaper and easier for the other brands, nice ATi :-D
 
I feel that Hercules makes the best ATI based cards, but that is just my opinion, I find they are a lot easier to overclock and cool than most of the others, because of the capacitor placement on the pcb of the card.
 
sapphire all the way. I've seen nothing but awesome performance with them and the OCing is great, always get atleast a 20% increase. I've been buying Sapphire for about 3.5 years now and plan on keeping this tradition :)
 
The "Excaliber" is the card made by the company HIS.
The card is the "HiS Excaliber IceQII Model"
I had the HiS Excaliber IceQII 9800 Pro and It was an excelent card. Comes stock with a Rev3 VGA Silencer and Ram Sinks. Flashed to XT Nicely, although I did not get the Temp Sensor.
 
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