[QUOTE="Random__Guy"]

[QUOTE="X360PS3AMD05"]They wouldn't alienate most PC gamers by making them upgrade to SM4.0.9mmSpliff

They did with oblivion and SM3.0

Oblivion runs on x800 cards. Its the Unreal 3 engine that requires SM3.0 and thats cause SM3.0 had been around for a while now. Thats only 1 gaming engine too.

Crysis will be SM2.0 compliant.

Maybe it wasent SM3.0, but i remmeber they did alienate alot of people somehow. Maybe it was with Dx9 support??

They wouldn't alienate most PC gamers by making them upgrade to SM4.0.X360PS3AMD05

They did with oblivion and SM3.0

Well it seems like the 8600's are better at games that use allot of shaders, and it seems like most new games will be that way, and it plays older games at a decent enough frame rate. so i dont know. i like it. for now.

[QUOTE="el_carl"][QUOTE="zemus66"]

[QUOTE="9mmSpliff"]Whats your price range? zemus66

like $200 for the videocard and $1150 for all the computer

So DX 10 isn't as important? I'm not a FPS games fan and I don't buy a lot of games....for the future only starcraft 2 is on my plans...so should I stay with DX9???

I guess thats up to you.

The 8600 GT and 8600 GTS has almost not difference, but if you buy the 8800 GTS it has a big difference.

The 8800 GTS eats the 8600 GT/GTS for breakfast.

wklzip

the 8800 is twice as fast, but twice the price. mice, lice, ice, rice, dice, etc...

I dont think there are many risk in this situation, the gts is basically a overclocked gt, Either do it yourself or pay them to do it for you.

And you dont have to overclock it. if you dont want to.

The fact that i'm gonna play at 1280x1024 is because almost all 19" monitors don't admit more resolution...and do you know if there's a big difference betweeen 8600 gt and gts?? because the price difference is 70 bucks

zemus66

The only difference is the gts has memory thats a little better,

With a little work the GT pretty much overclocks into the GTS.