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Ok since we pretty much established that both cards are almost the same it would be worth it to look at other things besides the performance. I used to have NVidia cards before and overclocking them was always a pain. You give the core too much voltage your machine locks up, reboot and try again. With ATI there is no such thing. ATI cards can automagically reset the GPU to their "safe" settings if something goes wrong. Plus, ATI drivers have a feature called "OverDrive" mode. You just check a checkbox and the card will overclock itself constantly adjusting its performance to make sure nothing bad happens. That's a really nice feature of the card. Plus ATI just released their Command Center for the cards. From there you can set the AA-Levels, the A-Filter Levels, etc... and store then in multiple profiles. This way you can have different settings for different games. Also the ATI card only takes up 1 slot on my MOBO. The NVidia card is massive and it takes up two slots on the MOBO.
This is no way intended to spark a "holywar" between the two card manufacturers and users. These are just my opinions about the two cards. Like I've said I do own the ATI X800 but I have no real hands on experience with the NVidia card (although I do have older NVidia cards in my other machines).
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