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This puppy will kick some ass

   

Wow, already up to 1GB GPUs. I'm still in the stone-age with my x8AGP. PCI Xpress is just too expensive to do a conversion atm.

Wonder when nVIDIA will catch up... I'd like to see their next gen GPUs.

   

My video card has a mind blowing 4mb of ram.

   

I wouldn't rush out and buy this just yet. There's some new multi-threading cards in R&D right now and they'll hit the market next year for around $900 or so.

   

Isn't ATI a Canadian Company?

A 1 gig graphics card! sweet jesus.......my 128 is pretty fucking good....i can't imagine wtf that shit will be like.

So when you play pong it gets choppy? you poor bastard...i had a 32 once...it sucked ass....wtf can 4 do? I could shit a larger graphics card than that....sure it may hurt a little with all them edges and pointy parts but I could!

   

Is it a DirectX 10 card? doens't say there.

Don't bother buying any new video cards until DirectX10 cards come out.

WIndows Vista is going to have DX10 which will have loads of perfromance and visual benefits at the cost of not being backwards compatable. So games will start being DX10 or Vista only. So will need a DX10 video card. But right now there isn't any on the market. Should start seeing them this summer.

   

well if i read it correctly its not a gfx card for playing games, its a gfx card for making them, it is akin to Nvidias quadro not to the geforce or the Radeon series.

   

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I'm writing this on Vista with a plain Jane ATI 128 card on an IBM T43. Microsoft has so far delayed the market deployment of Vista until 2007. I will say that the current Beta build has a lot of compatibility issues. It is not backwards compatible on a LOT of stuff.

On the other side of things, it has some spiffy features.

   

so your saying i won't be able to play my games on the new vista and dx10?
like C&C and sim city 4?

   

Cool, but a bit out of my price range........

   

So far I can't get DooM Ultimate Edition to run on it.

   

i want to wait buying a new computer to get the new OS, but if i can't play my games on it...

screw it!

   

The new Microshaft OS is going to be riddled with DRM garbage. Every song, every movie, every program you open will have to pass the standards that microshaft and co. decide to put upon them. It is going to be a joke OS, dont bother "upgrading" to this, it will be over priced and nothing but visually more appealing. XP will be more than adequite for a long time. Say no to Microcrap!!

   

Vista looks like it will be great new OS.

good riddence to backwards compatebility. they are slowly getting rid of it. I run WIndows x64 editition. it basically has no old legacy code, same as vista. so i can't run dos programs or some 16bit. But i don't use any.

The benefit to getting rid of this legacy code is more security and performance.

Vista will have DirectX 9 and DirectX 10. So vista can still play all your old games, if windows XP can play it Vista most likely can too. But some games will start to be DX10 only, or you will only see some of the benefits if you have a DX10 compatable card. This is the same for when Dx9,9,7 came out, the only difference is that DX10 for performance issues and stuff is not backwards compatable, so thats why Vista runs 2 directX versions.

Vista is still not coming out to start of 2007, so by then there will be DirectX10 cards on the market, hopefully a lot, so the prices arn't too high.

SireJoe you are garbage

Vista will also bring better 64 bit support. WIndows XP x64 is alright but 64bit support will be much better and more mainstreamed with Vista.

I al also very excited about Vista Media Center, it looks like a major imporvment over Media Center 2005, which I use for my TV computer.

Here are some cool side by side screenshots and an article
http://www.bentuser.com/article.aspx?ID=332&page=4

   

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