[QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

[QUOTE="Xtasy26"]

Perhaps..We will have to wait and see. We don't know when the next Xbox or Playstation comes out even if it did, I highly doubt it will have HD 6970 calibre GPU. On the flip side I could make the argument that one of the reasons the 8800 GT lasted so long was because it came within a time period where no new consoles came out.

My point still holds. Name me a GPU where 7+ month's after it's release it still costed $50-$90 more than it the price it realeased initially like my BIOS flashed HD 6970.

Xtasy26

Radeon 9500 could be transformed into a 9700. The 9700 was $90 to $100 more than the 9500 back in 2004.

...But could a 9500 max out all games @1080P like Doom 3 or Far Cry in 2004. ;) The answer is a simply NO.

Hasn't done this before, only thing I've done to this comp lately is fix a windows error by using a windows xp disk(wasnt mine, was a mates that he dled), which I doubt was that because all I did was boot off it then it was fixed? :/ Any ideas?