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Originally Posted by Torps
I definately agree with what your saying. I will wait till the 9800 comes out and that will be were I stop for 2-3 years, which I usually do anyway. This year there were giant leaps, DX10.1, DDR3, FSB 1600 (Penryn), PCI-E X16 v2.0 and the giant leap in performance with the 8800 coming out and not supporting DX 10.1 it kindaput us gamers in a bad posiition. So I do not want to buy a card know that does not support DX10.1 and have to buy it a year later because a game I want uses it...
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There's been a "sky is falling" response by many 8800 series card owners to the mention of DX10.1
DX10.1 will not make any DX10 capable card obsolete. Here is just one of several analyses of the significance (or lack thereof) of the 10.1 development:
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The release of DirectX 10.1, an API layer that will be rolled out with Windows Vista Service Pack 1, is quickly approaching. When asked about the advantages of picking up a DirectX 10 graphics adaptor today, versus waiting for NVIDIA or AMD DirectX 10.1 products, Microsoft's senior global director of Microsoft games on Windows, Kevin Unangst, replied: "DX10.1 is an incremental update that won’t affect any games or gamers in the near future."
Microsoft isn't the only developer downplaying DirectX 10.1: "We pride ourselves on being the first to adopt any important new technology that can improve our games so you would expect us to get with DX10.1 right away but we've looked at it and there's just nothing in it important enough to make it needed. So we have no plans to use it at all, not even in the future," said Cevat Yerli, CEO of Crytek.
NVIDIA also has a response for AMD's DirectX 10.1 support, a feature of AMD's new HD 3800 series that the company has been rather vocal about. NVIDIA's corporate roadmap details plans to include DirectX 10.1 in its ninth-generation GPU architecture, codenamed D9. However, the first D9 processors will not debut until next year and the company describes DirectX 10.1 as "a minor extension of DirectX10 that makes a few optional features in DirectX 10 mandatory."
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In my opinion, a 9800 series card will not be
necessary for any foreseeable 'Game' or Sim. ...[Edited deletion]...
I run SH4 perfectly smoothly with all graphic options max'ed out and I feel quite confident that my 8800GTX will [Edited]
serve me well in my Games/Sims of choice for at least the next 18 months...and I've already had the card for seven months...that's a long lifetime in terms of Computer components: two years! If necessary, I can also easily SLI my Rig with an additional 8800GTX (at a much cheaper purchase price than my first one).
My Rig:
ASUS P5N32-E SLI, 680i
Dual core E6700 Cpu (Mobo upgradeable to Quad-Core)
2GB OCZ PC2 8800 (1100Mhz) RAM (Mobo upgradeable to 4Gb)
BFG 8800GTX Graphics card (Mobo upgradable to two 8800 cards in SLI configuration)
Audigy2 ZS
4 Seagate 400GB hard drives in a 0+1 RAID array
Plextor PX-800A
Samsung 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor 1920X1200 native
Windows VISTA 32bit