You guys really have no idea when it comes to hardware. Why don't you strike a deal with some proper website that knows how to review. I mean what the hel is stalker with its archaic grafix and bias towards nvidia doing in the benchmarks. Also why do you keep knocking down directX9 cards when we'll still be using them in all games for at least another 2 years, directX10 currently has no advantage. Finally why use the X1950pro instead of the XT or XTX versions? Very small price difference and a significant perfomance difference.

I'm sorry to say but your hardware performance guides are consistently useless and extremely wrong. You seem to lack any understanding of the capability of old systems. According to you my computer should of been unable to play F.E.A.R., HL2, Oblivion and a few others yet I have no problem playing at a lovely 1280x1024 resolution with most effects on. I think your idea of smooth gaming is seriously twisted as 60 fps is more than enough and few would even notice lag at 30fps