Cheaper dx10 card?

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I'm looking to get a new pc around Christmas or in January, and was prolly going to get Vista, and I was thinking about a dx10 card but from what I have seen they are 500+, will there be any around $300?
 
yes, nvidia typically releases the low and mid range cards later after their high end parts, ATI usually tries to get all out of the door all at once, they will be crippled and slow and probably not much better then the last ones like the rest it just will have DX10 support

but I have to wonder, you aren't looking for a D3D10 card just because you are getting vista? (its not required to run any part of vista, just the games)
 
Nvidia should have them out by January or February, the way things are going (/ normally go)
 
If you just want to make sure you have DX10 to be future proof you might want to ask how long until DX10 is required for more than 1-2 games and by that time will your $300-500 card be worth about 75 bucks? Jumping in early does not always make you ready for a change.
Just my 2 cents.
 
My understanding is that VISTA wont have DX10 at its launch. It gets added in later. Correct? :confused:
 
Correct. And it'll be some time before DX10 is widely utilized. Sure, there are a few "big name" games using it, but it's nothing that can't be reverse emulated to DX9 on XP.
 
Skott said:
My understanding is that VISTA wont have DX10 at its launch. It gets added in later. Correct? :confused:
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at first it was speculated that D3D10 wouldn't be ready for shipment, but it seems that it would launch with it read to go as of right now

Correct. And it'll be some time before DX10 is widely utilized. Sure, there are a few "big name" games using it, but it's nothing that can't be reverse emulated to DX9 on XP.
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there won't be any reverse engineering, all further support for D3D10 will be from patching, every game to come out for some time now will be natively written in D3D9C and patched to use extentions for D3D10 (mostly to take advantage of the decreased overhead)
 
I am in the same boat. I am waiting till cheap DX10 cards come out to buy a new video card. I am not looking for high performance but I think I will benifit from the newer technology under Vista even in the 2d space. Should I really wait for a DX10 card or will Vista 2d make the same use out of an x1650 card that I can get for $130 today?
 
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