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Originally Posted by De@dMe@t
wait till january & get an amd. the new quads are going to slaughter intel on performance and price. stay away from nvidia graphics the new ati cards due in january are going to make everything out now wothless, so any money you spend now is wasted. plus nvidia cards cant do dx10.1 properly, they are having serious problems with the chipsets and the drivers, theyre ok on dx10 but 10.1 they cant do it.
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ATI has NEVER before come out with a card that made nVidia cards worthless before, why are we supposed to believe that is true now? DX10 and DX10.1 are totally compatible, unlike some nasty rumors earlier. 10.1 is only a bug fix.
I'm going with nVidia's track record of almost always being the best and staying put until ATI actually delivers the goods, which they haven't done yet. If they come out with a good card it will only lower the price on the 8800GT card I'm going to buy. ATI has played poor sister so long I need consistent success on their part to even consider them a contender.
Microprocessors are way ahead of the games and buying the latest quad core will only lighten your pocket and make you a bit faster running 100 yards. It won't help Silent Hunter 4. ANYBODY can spend altogether too much money on their system. It takes skill and experience to assemble something for a reasonable amount of cash that can still play SH4 WFO. I'm convinced it can now be done for about $800, not including monitor, keyboard and mouse. The new quad core is likely to cost that much. Hope lots of rich people buy it and bring the price down to earth. In the meantime my Athlon 64 3700+ plays SH4 fine and if I get a wild hair I'll slam an Athlon X2 in there. AMDs aren't the fastest, but they're plenty good enough and the price is nice!