Originally posted here by gore
Install something other than Windows. (Linux, Free BSD) and play Unreal Tournament.

From what I've seen it's a nightmare making the drivers work on ATI. Nvidia however supports Free BSD and Linux with a driver they make and it allows complete 3d support.

I don't care what the Xeon has for competition, I said I'd rather have one than something else. ATI can be as fast as it wants, but when I do an update on SUSE and it grabs Nvidia drivers for me, and they actually work and build a Kernel for me, then I'm not switching to ATI so I can play UT 12 frames faster. If it doesn't lag, I'm happy, I don't really care how many frames it is.
Yep, I certainly agree with the two things you point out.
I have also good experience with the Nvidia chipsets on Linux. And indeed it isn't that important to get those extra frame rates... I also don't realy care as long as it does'nt lag.
I'm also using Nvidia boards, only pointing out that in recent comparisons the ATI was a little better.

About the Xeon, ok, but I still believe that you can not compare apples with oranges