| ATI sucks 2004-09-12, 1:58 pm |
| Before you think about spending your hard-earned money on ATI products
you should realize some facts.
For one, not only is ATI hardware second rate, but their drivers are
always full of bugs. They even warn you against installing the latest
drivers, saying only install the drivers if you are having a problem
with the previous drivers.
I just upgraded my system to 3.2 P4 E CPU on an Asus P4P800-E DX
motherboard, and I don't even know if my Radeon 9800 is running at 8X
AGP. The "Smart Gart (tm)" bullshit - which is supposed to tell you
what rate your video card is running at - is turned off, and the
computer becomes unstable when you try to turn it on.
Then I was XXXXing stupid enough to buy an ATI TV Wonder card. Before
I upgraded I was able to get it running after installing and
uninstalling various drivers. But every time I turned on the TV I had
to turn on the "line in" because the idiot program shut it off. Now
when I turn on the TV with the latest drivers it crashes while
watching it. And not only that, it won't shut down, not even with
Windows XP Task Manager. I have to shut down and turn off the power to
get rid of the worthless piece of shit.
(Not to mention all the problems you get with the voice being out of
sync…)
ATI products are a sad joke. Hopefully the company will go out of
business so people won't get duped into buying worthless crap and end
up wasting their hard-earned dollars.
But if you want second rate performance and a lot of headaches, buy
ATI products. But if you have any XXXXing sense you will avoid them
like the plague.
Another satisfied ATI customer :/
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