DX10

Well I finally did it. I purchased my first DX10 card, and no it is not an AMD card. I give those guys a lot of praise, but lately, I feel that in both areas, graphics and processors they are not able to beat the competition. I have chosen to purchase a Geforce 8800GTS. Yes I realize it's not top of the line, but it's good enough for what I need it for, considering my processor would do nothing but limit the GTX all the time. Actually, it still limits my GTS sometimes. All in all though, performance is there. I think it will actually allow me to play Unreal 3 engine games with most settings cranked...well after I put together my new computer with Core 2 Duo processor that is. Anyways, just thought I would say that it's a pretty good buy, especially if you don't have a massive processor, although people pinching pennies might go for the 320 as the RAM is cut in half and I would have went for that one except that in this day and age textures are huge and they will only get bigger. The 320 has enough power for now, in fact, in most current generation games, there is little difference between that and the 640. However I have seen instances that point to 30%+ differences in performance for future applications, so I said I wanted something a bit more future proof. I figure that this card should at least get me to summer of next year and probably all of 2008 before I feel I must upgrade. All in all, I am happy with my purchase.

Kris