Last person I told to go Nvidia rather than ATI/AMD ignored me and came and apologized after 3 months saying never again will they buy a video card from them. You might save some money, but they can't do drivers right. Every couple of weeks he would be having issues with drivers in relation to a new game. If all you do is play 1 game (hopefully SC2) and stick with it for years I'd be fine recommending AMD because they can only mess up drivers so many times for the same game.
to be fair back when the 200gtx series was popular didnt nvidia release a set of drivers that 'blew' some peoples gpu's up cause the default fan profiles were wrong?
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