FalconFour Posted:

I mean, are their ****ing drivers still all “Standard PCI to PCI bridge”, “Standard PCI ATA controller”, “Standard Enhanced USB Controller”... or have they actually started writing their own ****ing drivers yet?

Seriously, that’s the only reason I’m still buying and recommending only Intel chipset-based boards. SLi isn’t worth the lack of proper drivers…

I’ve never tried an onboard graphics card in my machines, but I recently had a problem with my ati “Standard PCI to PCI bridge” causing bluescreens so it’s not just nVidia.

FalconFour Posted:

Well, nVidia makes decent video card drivers (much moreso than ATI’s fabulous persontastic Catalyst Control Center horse****), but all my runins with ATI or nVidia chipsets have been exercises in frustration and ****ty performance/stability thanks to their inability to actually write platform drivers like the PCI and USB controllers. Anything that doesn’t “REALLY NEED” a driver, they just skip out on.

VIA is godlike with their driver availability (drivers for every possible device), but not so much with their stability. Intel is great with drivers most of the time, but not so hot with tweakability and performance. *facepalm*

I’ve only ever had nVidia and ATI cards, so all I can say is they both have thier own driver difficulties, I’ve never used the others.