Hi, I am currently a PS3 owner and I was considering buying an XBOX 360 next month. The one question that has been in my mind was whether it is too late for me to buy a 360. I know the xbox has only been out for about 4 years but I don't really see a great line up of games comming out in 2009 so far for the XBOX 360. Anyways, if I could get your opinon on whether I should buy a 360 or not, you would have my undying gratitude.

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Aznparty

P.S. One more thing, if you are a fanboy of either Sony or Microsoft or Nintendo(for god's sake), please do not reply to my thread.

Thanks again,

Aznparty

Thank you all for the prompt replys.

If I have understood the gist of all your replys in a summary, the majority believe that my CPU would almost instantly bottleneck the card. A suggestion to get a new CPU had caught my attention. As I know from reaidng on other fourms, my dell 0X8582 motherboard does not support a large variety of processors. I would be greatful if this wonderful gamespot community could help me some more and tell me which decently cheap motherboard I could buy THAT would also fit into my case snug(no modifcations to the case)

Thanks in Advance,

Aznparty

Hi, I currently own a Dimension 9100 with a Pentium D 830 processor(3.0 Ghz) and have a ATI X1800XL(PCI-E X16) from few years ago. I was looking to upgrade my graphics card in a few weeks and was wondering if my CPU would bottleneck a GeForce GTX 260 Core 192. I also want to mention that I do not have the budget to upgrade my CPU nor do I have that feasible option as my dell motherboard is not very friendly with some of the newer, better processors currently on the market.

A link to the card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130370

If I could also get your opinon on whether my system would be able to run any games in DX 10 IF I did purchase the GeForce GTX 260 Core 192, I would be much obliged.

My system specs are as follows:

1 TB SATA 7200 RPM

2 GB DDR2 @ 667 Mhz

Pentium D 830 @ 3.0 Ghz

Hopefully, a GeForce GTX 260 Core 192

Thank You In Advance,

Aznparty

Yea.. I didn't fully understand this.

I have a pci express x16 slot.

The ati Hd 3870 is pci express 2.0

Now, I wikied it and found out that 2.0 works on the older versions.

Is this true?

And also if I use it on the older version will it made a performance difference?

Yea.. I didn't fully understand this.

I have a pci express x16 slot.

The ati Hd 3870 is pci express 2.0

Now, I wikied it and found out that 2.0 works on the older versions.

Is this true?

And also if I use it on the older version will it made a performance difference?

I am in need of a decent directx 10 graphics card, with an aftermarket(3rd party) cooler. I want to stick to nvidia because my currently x1800xl was getting too hot out of the box and I was compelled to buy a Artic Cooling solution.

Try to keep the budget within 100-250 $(Usa dollar).

Any input?

Oh, sorry man

I dont have a pci express 2.0

I just have 1 pci express x16