Is this the last hurrah for anyone's computer?

[Digby Tatham Warter]

Unfortunately, the next day after I placed my order, the company called to tell me that they could not start because they were back ordered on the Nividia G295GTX 2x 1.7 gig graphics card I specified. I guess this is the hottest card on the market right now, so they are in high demand. They were supposed to be in this last week, but they did not come.

I checked with two other on-line builders thinking I would cancel my order and go with somebody else, but they were in the same boat because all of them use EVGA as their source.

Of course they said to check back next week, but who knows if they will even get the cards in then. Regardless, there's no way I'll have my new rig before the game comes out--probably at least a week after.

So, to all of you who will start playing next week---have fun with the new game. I'll just bide my time reading all the cheers and huzzahs plus all the moans, groans, rants, and usual fanboy whining.

That' s a very high end GPU, do you really need that much grunt, and is the rest of the PC up to the same mark? Mainly I mean the CPU will have to be very expensive to properly pull a GPU like that, and if it isn't, then it will be waste won't it?.

Unless your trying to run 2 26" monitors or something, did you not consider buying something cheaper that they had in stock, that would still more than do the job?

I played the demo, fully maxed @1680x1050 with a just a humble ATi4870 512DDR, and their are at least 2 other Nvidia GPU's that are faster than mine, and cheaper than the monster you are waitng for.

Anyway, sounds like a monster rig you are after, and good luck to you with which ever route you take.