DX10 or 9?
- Thread starter Adam135
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wat daa ....
Geoff
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I would buy a mid-range card now, such as the 7600GT, and then wait until early/mid next year to buy a high-end DX10 card.
I heard the cheapest will be in the $500 range.
whats your budget?i mean.. the DX10 Cards will be $350+ when they are released i gues, wich is quite a lot
I heard the cheapest will be in the $500 range.
Impr3ssiv3
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source?
grimxx
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November humm nah I rather spend my 649 dollars on a low-version ps3 and a game than those
You can do a lot with the cost there for the latest card when the current DX 9 ready cards are also Vista ready. Vista includes DX 9L for running the current DX 9 capable games.
MagGoT_4_liFE
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Do any of you know when ATI will release their DX10 cards? (I've switched over in prefrence from recent benchmarks X/) Also, I'd be interested in on how the 8800GTX compared to the X1950XTX in a DX9 game on XP, for example, Oblivion
HaGa11aZ
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you'll need Vista to take advantage of the DX10 cards/games. Me? I'm doing the exact same thing Adam135 is doing (my name is Adam too 
)... and that is to buy a card to bridge me over till i can afford a DX10 card. I've settled on one XFX 7900GT, since i can afford that GPU from all the money i've saved on purchasing a CPU + mobo combo. i'm very excited 
The best advice i can give you is to get a middle-upper range card that features SM3. Wait for about 6 months 'till you switch to Vista, as Microsoft ALWAYZ releases their OS's too early (their new OS public premiers are just giant beta tests
). By six months time, Microsoft would have worked out most of the bugs, more software developers would support 64bit (which is a HUGE problem right now for Win64 users), and the DX10 cards would have gone down in price; it's a win-win situation.
)... and that is to buy a card to bridge me over till i can afford a DX10 card. I've settled on one XFX 7900GT, since i can afford that GPU from all the money i've saved on purchasing a CPU + mobo combo. i'm very excited The best advice i can give you is to get a middle-upper range card that features SM3. Wait for about 6 months 'till you switch to Vista, as Microsoft ALWAYZ releases their OS's too early (their new OS public premiers are just giant beta tests
). By six months time, Microsoft would have worked out most of the bugs, more software developers would support 64bit (which is a HUGE problem right now for Win64 users), and the DX10 cards would have gone down in price; it's a win-win situation.
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Articles seen on Vista point to having both 32bit and 64bit versions being released initially. No one has gone strictly 64bit quite yet. The latest release of FireFox 2.0 as well as IE 7 are alreasy running here. Unlike what seen when the 9X family went from Fat16 to 32bit with NT and 9X-ME meeting with XP any 64bit takeover will still take a few years. The 64bit version of XP still has to have 32bit support since the market is still saturated in that direction.
Geoff
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Microsoft even stated that its going to have both. Not to mention almost all computer manufacturers will use the 32Bit version because they dont want driver incompatibility issues.
If you go after drivers now you will note that they will often be seen with the support for 2K, XP, Server 2003, and XP 64bit. Microsoft still has to include 32bit support at this time. What that says is that the software market for 64bit softwares hasn't grown far enough yet. Everyone has been geared for 32bit for over 10yrs. now and will remain there for some time.