I have a P4 3.0 Ghz HT with a gig of ram. I am looking at getting a new vid card so I can play Star Craft 2 and Crysis. I am looking at spending around $180. I have been looking at either the Nvidia 7950's or the Nvidia 8600's. It looks like the 8600's are more powerful all around except for the memory bandwidth. Which card would you guys recomend? I would like to have DX 10 for Crysis. I do not need DX10 if the 7950's are way better. I'm not getting a new computer or anything. I just need to know which graphics card would be my best solution. The requirements for crysis is only a 2.8 ghz P4 so a 3.0 will be fine.

thanks

I have a P4 3.0 Ghz HT with a gig of ram. I am looking at getting a new vid card so I can play Star Craft 2 and Crysis. I am looking at spending around $180. I have been looking at either the Nvidia 7950's or the Nvidia 8600's. It looks like the 8600's are more powerful all around except for the memory bandwidth. Which card would you guys recomend? I would like to have DX 10 for Crysis. I do not need DX10 if the 7950's are way better.

thanks

I have a P4 3.0 Ghz HT with a gig of ram. I am looking at getting a new vid card so I can play Star Craft 2 and Crysis. I am looking at spending around $180. I have been looking at either the Nvidia 7950's or the Nvidia 8600's. It looks like the 8600's are more powerful all around except for the memory bandwidth. Which card would you guys recomend? I would like to have DX 10 for Crysis. I do not need DX10 if the 7950's are way better.

thanks

Actually you are foolish, I didn't just list FPS's. I listed all Blizzard games, which none are FPS's. My intention in that list was to show many games that had good single and mulit options. Let me ask you guys this... (ok ok, bringing MPH's back into the mix) If MPH's had a great single player along with its great multiplayer, would you guys think differently? The only reason it didn't have the greatest single player (I thought it was pretty good) is because the producer didn't spend enough time, money, and energy into making it. It's not like the single player absolutely had to be bad and there was no way around it, it just didn't have the attention needed.

So are you guys telling me that Metroid is the only game where they can make a really good single player, a really good multiplayer, but is incapable of having both in one game? Sounds like some bad developers.