Sorry that I took your earlier email wrong. Thanks, Bobby
-----Original Message----- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of maccrawj Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 6:21 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] GTX 280 or wait for GTX 295? Time out! My bad for being so quick with a OPINION expressed in bad prose, sorry! You're not being lambasted nor am I insisting you need to do ATI was implying in a 2 horse race you were really limiting your options based what sounds like arbitrary reasons about old issues that may/may not have bearing on today. If I was to go on past experiences I'd never buy a Intel, AMD, a Sleazgate HDD or HP anything! ;) The response was supposed to be laced with *sarcasm* in response to your being so (seemingly) staunchly tied to a brand rather than good choices despite brand. I am not saying ATI is best of 2 nor was I trashing NV video cards. Trashing drivers & BS corporate policies yes, hardware no. Note I was looking at NV last year, so I am not saying they're shit by any means, though in fairness both companies have a lot of work to do IMHO. As you say, building with X58 so SLI issue is moot yet there's still a bit chill in the air from NV's dissing pre-X58 users. Were I do X58 I'd be sizing up BOTH the NV 2x0 series at this point vs. ATI HD48x0 X2 series. Good luck on the build! Bobby Heid wrote: > I was not being flip. I just had no desire to go with ATI (after many > issues with ATI many years ago). So ATI was not a valid choice as I had > already chosen Nvidia. Instead of having people waste their time going > through the trouble of writing a reply that was in favor of ATI, when I > wasn't interested in ATI, I was trying to steer the thread where I wanted to > go. And that was with Nvidia. I have weighed all of the options many times > and still decide to choose Nvidia. > > What bothers me though is that my email was just a request for opinions > about what I asked for. I did not expect to be lambasted for not choosing > ATI. I did not trash ATI or say that Nvidia was the ultimate brand over all > brands. If I had asked for opinions about the different Ford Mustang models > I would not expect to hear about Chevrolet or Toyota. > > BTW, I am building an X58 system. So the SLI issue is moot here. > > Bobby >
