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GeForce 7900 Vs. Radeon X1900
Gamespot has an article comparing the shiny you get when using a Nvidia GeForce 7900 GTX SLI and an ATI Radeon X1900 XTX Crossfire. From the article: "All told, the barrier to entry is enormous; but once you're there and running your games at 1920x1080 with 4x antialiasing and 16x anisotropic filtering, any regrets you might have had about spending a small fortune will be thrown out the window. We're sure that one of these setups offers a better experience, however. The two could differ in terms of raw performance or the subtleties of image quality depending on the game. Either way, if you're going to lay down the smack for the best performance, we're going to make sure you get it."
So the nVidia card wins because they used 3 games that are designed to work better with nVidia boards than ATI boards?
What are you talking about? While Quake 4 has always run better on Nvidia hardware, Half-Life 2 has always performed better on ATI hardware, to the extent that ATI hardware came bundled with Half-Life 2. You have to give it to Nvidia for designing a card that would beat ATI's flagship at their own game (pun intended), and this alone deserves to declare them the winner of this comparison.
Their fab process and Q&A suck
Again, you show that you don't know what you're talking about. Their "fab process"?? Both Nvidia and ATI used TSMC to fab both of those chips. No difference between the two. As for Q&A, then you have to talk to the specific board manufacturer. Nvidia doesn't design the graphics boards, only the chips. Other vendors like Asustek and eVGA design the boards, and sell them to you. So they are responsible for any Q&A.
they cannot be bothered to properly follow the farking API specs for dx9 or openGL
Again you're spreading FUD. The NV3x (GeForce FX) had issues, which NVidia were the first to acknowlege. The tables have completely turned with the Geforce 6x and 7x series. Can you point the parts of the spec that those cards don't implement properly?
I've see far too many of their cards TOAST from being OC'ed by their own drivers.
The drivers don't just OC the cards. You have to do it. You know that this voids the warranty, don't you?