All I can say is I'm glad I got my playthrough completed before they ruin the ending with rainbow colored fireworks and hand holding on a beach setting at sunset.
"I say; too expensive. With 1350$ you can buy two laptops I think. Video Cards are getting so damn expensive..." You're exactly right. For the price of an SLI setup, you can buy two laptops that has enough beef to play most games decently. This is exactly why PC gaming is dying. It's not affordable like it used to be. Back in 2000 PC gaming was dominating consoles beacuse it was easier accessable. That's not the case anymore. Consoles are easier accessable, they look better, and they're cheaper. You can buy an Xbox 360 and a high quality HDTV for the price of a SLI or CrossFire video card setup for a PC. When they fix that, then PC gaming will come back alive, but not until then. If it wasn't for MMORPG's, PC gaming would have already been dead, instead of just "dying off".
All these cards look absolutely sexy. It's just a shame that even after several years, SLI and CrossFire still isn't worth the price tag, not to mention, it's still too early to buy a next-gen video card. It's going to be another 6 months at the very least before it's worth upgrading. "I said it before and I'll say it now.... I'm GLAD I got my 8800GTS 640mb 4 months ago... It was, and still is, one of the best if not the best for the money, and offers better performance than ATI in games that most people care about. Although I think that this card was truly a best buy when I bought it. Right now, I don't know if it would be a smart choice to buy any high end card since the competition is heating up, and a customer who will wait 4-6 more months will only win in the long run." You spent $600, if not more, on a card that doesn't take advantage of the extra features since there are only a couple DX10 games available, when you will be able to buy one of these cards in another 6 months when there will be DX10 games worth playing (maybe, and then again, the consoles may still be crushing PC's in the next-gen competition), and the price will be half that. GeForce 7900 or equivalent is still all you need to play the latest and greatest games. At this rate, you will never need a DX10 video card, since all the hot games are switching to consoles only.
@Romanticide: What rock have you been hiding under? Get back in the loop, consoles have been dominating the market for the last 2 years, and have continued to do so throughout this year thus far -- and show no signs of letting up.
Let's give them time to optimize the drivers to take full advantage of the hardware before we start jumping to conclusions. The 8800 wasn't that hot when it first came out, and even months later, it's still not worth the price tag. The highest end 8800 is on the market, however, the same can't be said about the HD 2900. @domke13 : You're not much of a hardware enthusiast, are you? In fact, after reading through these comments, I don't think the other 90% of the GameSpot readers are either. Does anyone besides me remember how disappointing the 8800's performance was before they had months to work on a new set of drivers?
Wow. All the bickering. Play whatever console you want to and shut up. No kind of words will change one's opinions on a certain product, and it's certainly not going to change the sales.
Windows VIsta has Direct X10 to offer, but what about 90% of the current market games not functioning on Windows VIsta? Only 1 of every 10 games tested actually work -- leaving 90% of them non-functional. "all i want from Dx10/Vista is the ability to play great looking games with AWESOME PERFORMANCE and FPS. The shading/blur/shadow/lighting effects aside...i want to see games run at locked 85fps' (v-sync) ALL the TIME....maybe i should keep dreaming...or will my dreams come true?.....only time will tell.." You should probably keep dreaming. With the amount of polygons put into next-gen graphics, the days of running 60+ FPS are gone. You might manage it in older games like FEAR, HL2, Doom 3, and Quake 4 with a $300 video card -- but the true next gen games are going to peak at about 30-40 FPS with the settings cranked up, even on the best hardware you can find. The best running next-gen game you're going to see is UT3, and if you can't crank out a constant 85 FPS in that game, you're not going to do it in any game.
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