@7Deuce I think the 5970 is a dual gpu card out of the box. You can't crossfire them. If you could then ya, nvidia is light years behind. Although they kind of already are in my opinion. The new nvidia cards are a joke. This is their latest release in counter of ATi's tech that they released almost 2 years ago. Anyone buying 470's and 480's you're absolutely retarded.
ATI 5850 doesn't really have any problems playing anything out today on max res, max settings. $229 for a card that performs amazing with everything on 1080 vertical lines is good for me.
I've been using Win7 since beta. It's clearly the best OS MS has put out in a long time. However a lot of these games listed with better performance is a sham. XP still runs majority of these games and other newer games a bit better. I'm rockin a GTX 280 and I get better performance with XP running Res5, NBA2K10 and other newer games. Just something to think about. As a whole though, Win7 is clearly superior. Encoding is faster, extracting large files is way faster, boot up is faster.
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