My lean to ati just came in this generation of cards. I bought a watercooled 7970 and I am now proud to say, that it is the better card. Enough raw power, enough clock potential, enough ram, good ram interface better future and better built quality (bill of material components).
I am just a bit sad about the development of the market and its buyers. With the 6xx they sold a half of a normal card and now saw, that they nearly can do everything with the customers.
Sell them bad components? - Yes, they can!
Sell them less features for more or equal money than ever before? - Yes, they can!
Are people still thinking after all given facts, that their nvidia still won the contest? - Yes, they still do!
Are they writing senseless things on the box, which they do not seem to support? - Yes, they do and they found out, that customers do not seem to care about lies in their cases!
Although I was Nvidia user the whole time, I find it now totally unfair, that Ati did not get the additional market shares, as they deserve this year. You always see all the 15-year-old facebook-twitter guys posting senseless videos on youtube with their beloved 680 in sli!
BTW, posting videos anywhere in the internet should be forbidden. You see sime giod reviews concentrating on the facts with good knowledge and at the same time, you see nearly 100 guys showing also their review, where they say something like:
The packaging is awesome; I would recommend buying this! or
My new "justin bieber" beats headphones are great looking and the best quaility ever! You must buy it, because it is purple! (the kid do not know, that you could buy another earphone from sennheiser or another manufacturer half of the price)! or
My 7.1 headset is much better than a stereo! (which is not correct as a normal stereo headset is much more precise. Your ears would need to be measured for a sufficient 7.1 headset and noone has the same ears.
Just some examples and I swear to god, that once I see somebody in real life talking like that to me and do not stop after warning, he would get a big slap in the face. It seems, that their parents all forgot to give them some rules by habd for their lives.
I am getting off-topic, sry!!!
Just saw a review by a 12 year old yesterday and he was calling himself expert!!!! Grrrrrrrrrrr....