Quote Originally Posted by PaulTa
With the recent release of DX10 GPU's, the cost of a decent mid-ranged GPU is very very low. I picked up a 7900 GS for about 170 bucks, to tide me over until the next best is released from Nvidia (at which time I will by the latest 8800 series... The bleedin' edge is too damned expensive to ride)
I heartily agree. To upgrade frequently enough to have a top of the line graphics card all the time requires huge expenditures. A lot of people who can't afford to do that would figure they should just save up and then buy the best card around... but that tends to mean you go a while between upgrades, which can really start to hurt as the card falls more and more out of date. I think in general it's better to upgrade more frequently but do so with cards that are just off the cutting edge - you can spend the same amount, but have a card that consistently performs in the midrange instead of buying a top-end card that becomes midrange and then low-end before you can afford to upgrade it again.