Help! 4870 HIS or Gigabyte?

i never had a Ati card, i have a 9800GTX and im exchanging it to a 4870 and i dont pay extra :D,

What is better His or Gigabyte.

thanks

Also will my operation system boot after i put an ati card when i installed it with a Nvidia card (vista sp1 64)

tks :)

also is this card more future proof than the 9800? i know it beats everything now, but will it be more powerfull in the future aswell, i heard that ati dosent have all that good drivers but they might be wrong

also is this card more future proof than the 9800? i know it beats everything now, but will it be more powerfull in the future aswell, i heard that ati dosent have all that good drivers but they might be wrong

costyssj4

1st off, I would go with the HIS (I don't know about Gigabyte GPU's) and for that question, the 4870 is faster than the 9800GTX. The 4850 and the 9800GTX are competitors while the GTX260 and 4870 are competitors too.

wow nice , so how does it compare to the 260, and will my pc booth after i change the card from nvidia to ati?costyssj4

you have to compleatly uninstall all previous nvidia drivers or else you most likly will have a lot of trubble with the new ATI drivers.

try to find a good (google) cleansing program and boot in to safemode run the app there and remove all nvidia drivers.

sry, but I cant remember the name on the apps.

HIS, Diamond, Palit: 1 year warranty
Sapphire, Powercolor: 2 years
Asus, Gigabyte: 3 years
Visiontek: lifetime

And use Driver Cleaner or Driver Sweeper to remove the Nvidia drivers.

thanks alot guys, i will do as you told me, and i will go with gigabyte if it has 3 years warranty and also this 9800GTX that i have now is also a gigabyte and i never had a problem with it :)