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to not buy a GPU until DX10 is out of early beta whatever and Vista is working properly for it.

I have an 8800GTS which is a fine dx9 card. I don't expect it to do well with dx10 but that's ok it will have served me well for 6-7 months until I upgrade again.

Just chill people. No reason to buy hardware for software that is not optimized yet.
 
Ummm, while I agree that worrying too much about DX10 right now is pointless since there's nothing for it, it isn't beta. Vista is final release, and so is DX10. Beta period is long done.
 
bs the beta is still on if you consider the drivers etc. dx10 is still in the very early stages and we cannot get a true feel for what the current gpus are capable of with it. Lost Planet already shows how poorly even the GTX fairs atm.

don't waste your $$ is all I am saying. this big hubub about the 2900 is just silly when you consider the situation w/ a near total lack of real world dx10 games.
 
Forealz said:
I see no reason to upgrade to Vista, XP and DX10 gaming for me
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lol you mean XP and DX9 right?

anyway, if you upgrade, get an 8800GTS at most b/c it isn't worth it atm to spend $$ on dying hardware. wait until it's actually USED in MAINSTREAM applications.
 
i might go with a 2600XT for the interim.... and spend the big dollars next year

i am hedging my bet that the 2600XT overclocked might be able to joust with the 8800GTS 320 ..
 
POPEGOLD said:
i might go with a 2600XT for the interim.... and spend the big dollars next year

i am hedging my bet that the 2600XT overclocked might be able to joust with the 8800GTS 320 ..
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that's what I am talking about. you can spend $$ on the cpu, mobo, psu etc now but lay off the high $$ gpu until we know wtf is REALLY up with DX10.
 
I am moving back and forth on getting a DX10 card right now, or waiting.

I am running XP not ready yet for Vista, and not many DX10 games out - so I think I am going to wait, but if I could find an 8800GTS for $200 then...
 
just buy what ever card preforms best for the money, whether it is dx10 or not, that is the smart thing to do, i bought my 8800gts because it was the best performer in its price range at the time(got it from dell for $400 at xmas),not because it was dx10
 
We're going to get Lost Planet end of next month and Crysis in August from what's floating around.

While Lost Planet is not a reason to upgrade, by the looks of it Crysis will become an all time great, more than a reason to buy. This generation of hardware is going to launch DX10 gaming it would seem.

Early adopters always deal with the pains of new technology, this is no different. However, I'd say that things are shaping up much faster than in the past. While LP and Crysis will not require DX10, it will be required to play at their best, which only six months after the release of both Vista and DX10 hardware is somewhat remarkable. And next year is going to see lots of DX10 titles.

My point is that DX10 useage is going to go much faster than DX9.
 
If DirectX 10 ran on Windows XP, I suppose it would take away a reason to 'upgrade' to Vista for a lot of people.
 
Domini said:
what do you mean?
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I believe he means that DX9 was out for a much longer time before the first DX9 capable game came out, and that the pace at which games switched from DX8 to DX9 was very slow, taking many years to convert fully so all new games were DX9.
 
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