Check the review of this card at www.guru3d.com. This comes down to be a real beast with new features (CUDA and PhyX) and the future. Although the price is crazy enough to start. I agree that for budget aware pc gamers time for upgrade needs to be right. So we will wait for the competion. Who knows maybe AMD will come up with something to shut up Nvidia. PC gamers FTW! My system: Windows XP SP2 ( best OS from Microsoft so far imo) Intel Q6600 (at 3.6Ghz on air, goes to 3.81 but not during CA summer) Zalman 9700 CPU Cooler EVGA 8800 GTS 512 (788 core 1060 x 2 memory) 2GB 1066 Crucial Tracers 150GB Raptor 5.1 Surround Sound 630 W Raidmax PSU Tsunami Dream Case (Thermaltake) Plays everything on 1280 x 1024 with max even crysis (tweaked a bit)

Well All I can say it looks gorgeous, eventhough it makes a huge hit on card's performance. Do not complain about it. It still looks awesome on medium settings. Still, if want all the eye candy play with settings a bit. What I did was hacking game to very high on XP. Then turned down shadows, post processing and volumetric effects to MED. Getting 25 - 35 fps on 8800 GTS 640 overclocked on 1280 x 1024 with 8x AF no AA.