Dear Nvidia:

[jsbowden]

Until I recently bought the GeForce 9800 GTX+ I have now, I hadn't given you any of my money since back in June of 2000. My recent purchase reminds me WHY.

The fucking thing is unstable as hell. The Witcher? I will apparently never get to finish this game, since you will not run it for more than about half a minute before you crash to the desktop with a driver error. Crysis? As long as I only want to see it in DX9, everything is great! DX10, not so much. Anything running on the HL1 engine is random; sometimes Counterstrike will run for hours glitch free and then I'll be looking at driver crashes every few minutes. HL2 based games run fine, however. Other things are just as random, where they either run fine, run fine for a while at random, or are totally unplayable. And these are games with a fucking Nvidia logo spammed into their start up cinematics, like Neverwinter Nights, which your hardware can't seem to reliably deal with.

And I'm sure by this time next year, you will have abandoned me on the driver update front as well, since you orphan hardware like it's going out of style.

Next upgrade cycle? It's back to ATi.

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[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

The GTX 2xx series were (and still are) horribly expensive and I don't have the motherboard or processor to take advantage of one, and the 9800GTX+ was extremely price/performance friendly, especially compared to the other available stuff on the shelf (I was in an actual physical store, as my Radeon HD 2900 was dead and I needed a graphics card then, not next week).

[publius1.livejournal.com]

I did notice the expense -- the 270 seemed to be $250 and the 290(?) was like $530 on NewEgg. Jesus.