[Overpaid Slacker]

Holy. Crap.

The 5900 I bought almost a year ago was state-of-the-art at the time. This is four times more powerful and it freaking shows.

I'm running Far Cry (the most video-system punishing game out there) at 1600x1200 with all settings at "Very High" and still above 30 fps. It's gorgeous! Doom3 with the settings pegged (except antialiasing, which is "only" at 4X) is spectactular.

I can't wait to see applications that actually use Shader Model 3.0!!!

If you game, you NEED this card.

Look, we all figure that we're going to have to spend X dollars a year on our Porsches, right? Well, I budget a new video card per year for the computer. Granted, this one pushes the limits of that budget (in part b/c I bought a new 480W Antec TrueBlue to power the damned thing) but it is unbeLEEEvable. And if you're using a card that's more than a year old and upgrade to a 6800 Ultra, wrap your head in athletic tape before you start gaming, to keep it from exploding.

Back to saving the Earth from all enemies, foreign, domestic and supernatural.

JP