New card...

[PaulTa]

You are right about that. The significant price drop is why I was able to purchase a 7900 instead of a 7600.

I recommend the eVga 7900 GS to any budget gamer on this board who needs an upgrade. On paper at least, the card looks beautiful. The reviews give it great raves too.

[sapi]

...And i reccomend holding off the upgrade :P

dx10 is the way to go, and its not that far off...

[Barry Fitzgerald]

It makes sense to hold off maybe till the DX10 cards are out...

The unfortunate part here is that you are going to have to have Vista to run it. And that will dent your RAM significantly.

We can but hope more developers go the open GL route....

MS made a bit of a mistake here being honest.

[sapi]

You're misreading the market.

dx10 won't be in use for over a year, so it's not practical to buy a card specifically to run it.

However, the nvidia dx10 series gives fantastic dx9 performance on xp as well as giving some form of dx10 for the future.

You don't have to get vista that quickly (a good thing, because it's going to cost a ton)

And xp doesn't get anywhere near the amount of ram used in computers these days, so vista won't be that bad (after 9 hours uptime playing games/working i've peaked at 75%)

[Barry Fitzgerald]

Well I can only speak from a system builders point of view.

Sure DX 9 wont go away for a long time....

However with the next new batch of cards out soon....it may be wise to hold off...as the 8600GS will likely beat the 7600GT in performance..if history serves correctly.

With regards vista there are issues with DRM, ram use, and well it looks very nice...and has some good stuff...but currently not a great choice for the gamer..you get a 10% performance hit!

Hmmm maybe CA will do a linux version! lol

[antisocialmunky]

I'm waiting for the of R600s. Those things have a good chance of spanking Nvidia.

[katank]

And it shall make X1900 crossfire systems affordable. Yay!