I'm running an XFX 8800GTX on a 50"HD Plasma on High, and it eats it up. Considered the upgrade and tossed the idea for another new XFX8800 on the way for cheap to SLI.
I don't think I would be able to actually detect the difference with a later card ATM without benching it.
I've had my Phenom Quad 9950 for a week and its burnt out. Just remounted the AMD 6000+ to get going again. I was running it at around 70C for 20 minutes. Dhoh
I think the 9800 series was a great idea. I t bought down the price of all those old stock items held by vendors so I was able to pick up another XFX 8800 GTX 768mb for $225AU. Sweetness!
With out trawling through all the previous posts - when I had the exact same probs when installing a new HDD/Formatting, I just kept re-prioritising boot device sequence in BIOS set up and eventually it worked. Very frustrating day as I envisaged all manner of evil, but it was a simple fix in...