Graphics Card Recommendation

Not really a handful; All 8 series nVidia GFX cards are Direct 10 ready, I'm not so sure about ATi's though.

Ok gang, here's an update.

So far I'm leaning towards a 9600GT OC card. I'm going to wait until the 9800 series is released in March to see what they bring to the table for price vs performance against the 9600GT OC.

Thank you for all of your suggestions and ideas so far,
Shawn

I've run ATI's sense the "Mach 64" days and upgraded to a Rage 128 and thought I had something LOL

FATBOY

LOL FATBOY,

I thought I had something when the Matrix card was first released way back ago. I've been running with ATI since then, but it seems Nvidia has them beat for now in price and performance from what I seen so far.

Shawn

We keep talking 'bout those Old cards and people might find out how old we are.. LOL

the latest info from the tech mag i get pc shopper had a lil article in it talking about the cards soon to be coming out inin 1st qtr from ati. They are saying they are finally going to push nvidia around a little if you have the money.

I gots a ATi Rage Pro :P

@badognobisc IF you have the money :P

and then again, AMD said that Phenom is the answer to the Intel processor machine. But. It wasn't

It would be nice to see some good even competition between ATI and Nvidia again.

All ATI HD 2x00 cards are Directx 10
All ATI HD 3x00 cards are Directx 10.1
All except 2900 support hardware h.264 and VC-1, and HDCP.

DX 10.1 was actually added to expose certain features in the ATI RV670 to programmers (cubemap arrays, tessellation, etc). Essentially, the 3800 cards have the ability to do some insanely fast lighting, but it isn't transparent and needs developers to program for it. That's why Nvidia probably won't release a 10.1/ sm 4.1 compatible card until DX11.

Rob

Well, I guess there is still some competition eh?

But right now, ATi's Crossfire kicks nVIDIA's SLI in the ass.

Meh, nVIDIA has more powerful high end graphics cards, ATi has more bang for the buck. For now.

Signed,

nVIDIA Semi-Fanboy