I will second the 6800GS movement. It will pack a punch, but from the specs, it will still allow for upgrades once more promising hardware comes out. A 6600GT did me with similar specs, but it soon became the bottleneck, so I went SLi...
So I vote 6800GS. :)
DougLite makes a solid point. Regardless of how much raw power there is, I'd MUCH rather see those few instances of low framerates pounded out into a smooth gaming experience, then have more maximum framers per second. Sure, it's nice to have really high framerates when you're walking down a...
That's like saying you can play better Tennis if you have a 600 dollar racket... Not true at all. I don't play any better with a nicer racket. You just have to suck it up sometimes.
But seriously. The only time you really know you're getting more than 60 frames per second it when you see...
The Call of Duty 2 engine is complete crap. Honestly. The textures are hideous, the HDR is pitiful, and it runs horribly on all computers. I mean C'mon, some people here are laying down over $3K on a computer, and they can't even play a game with crappy graphics.
This once again proves that...
I hope you realize that the human eye cannot tell the difference between 80 frames per second and 300 frames per second... CS:Source is an amazingly well done game, and the Source engine is impressive, so I don't think that complaining that you're only getting 60 frames per second is...
Ok, so I just got my second 6600GT, and they're running in SLi just fine. Sort of.
When I go to edit a profile for any game, or create a new profile for a game, I can't seem to get any options for rendering than:> SLi Multi-GPU Rendering
> SLi Single-GPU Rendering
> SLi Antialiasing...