WHAT WOULD YOU CHOOSE 128MB nVidia GeForce 4 Ti 4800 AGPx8 OR 128MB ATI Radeon 9700 Pro AGPx8

At this current standpoint in the hardware market, and as close as the benchmarks are, I would say your brand of choice would be the one to buy. My only recommendation would be to study the current driver situation with ATI. ATI's recent not-so-elegant driver support across the current Windows OS platform array has led many hardcore ATI customers astray. Nvidia has recently proven to have generally more stable drivers, thereby reducing headaches on down the road.

Ok, nVidia has more stable drivers but whould nVidia come out on top in performance

The 9700 pro beat all geforce Ti and can catch up the new geforceFx on some point. If i were you, i should wait for the new card from ati who will surely beat the geforceFx and meanwhile the price of the 9700 pro will drop.

Something i forgot, i've never experiment driver problems with ATI. I don't talk about 2 years ago, but for now ATI have made a lot of work on their driver and they are perfectly stable. People talk about ATI drivers based on something they read somewhere on the net, but they don't know what they're talking about. ATI have got problem with their drivers in the past but now it's over, and it's a ATI user who talk.

I agree with everyone above, people I have talked to in the past either loved ATI or hated them, the ones that hated them had driver problems. But I have not heard negative reviews about the 9700 Pro's driver support. As well, the card itself is faster than any other GF4Ti series card. It should also be noted that their AA(anti-aliasing) and AF(anisotropic filtering)look much better than current nVidia's. Personally I think the GeforceFX is joke, it monstrous (AGP plus 1 PCI slot), nosiey, and only performed better(and not even by much) in a few benchmarks over the 9700Pro. However, the FX GPU is designed to take advantage of the next generation gaming engines which will be awesome, when ever they get here ;-) If you have the money to burn go with the 9700Pro. Alastor Proud owner of a GF4 Ti4400, it was worth every cent :D

Alastor, I'm about to buy myself a new ALastor ATI 9700 Pro 128 MB 128 Bit. But it was said that this card can not accept overclock. Because this can certainly damage this card. Is this correct? Maybe you have some answer. Thanks.