I had a Radeon 9500 variant and it was an amazing card. ATI got lazy and NVIDIA had better job with their drivers (heavily tweaking them for the big games for b

I had a Radeon 9500 variant and it was an amazing card. ATI got lazy and NVIDIA had better job with their drivers (heavily tweaking them for the big games for big gains). I also remember that ATI really messed up with the fabbing leaving them basically a generation behind NVIDIA for a decade or so. I was lucky with drivers but I heard a lot of horror stories so also switched to NVIDIA when I finally got around to upgrading.