Well let me put it like this. I bought a Radeon 9600 back in 2003 when ATi still existed as an independent company. In the time since then, I haven't seen enoug

Well let me put it like this. I bought a Radeon 9600 back in 2003 when ATi still existed as an independent company. In the time since then, I haven't seen enough improvement to justify buying anything other than nVidia. To be fair, they are better - I haven't heard them lately crashing the kernel so hard the alt-sysrq combos don't work.