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Faced with this same decision, I bought an eVGA 7800 so I could build my system, and plan to step up to the 7900. For me, the irritation of ATI CCC and the noise of ATI's stock cooler were serious issues. The real deal breaker, though, is that I wanted to buy an eVGA product, as their support...

Tradeoffs, tradeoffs. ATI: available NOW, crummier/louder cooling, more irritating drivers, better IQ (that angle independent AF is cool), priced competitively, best thing on market now nVidia: have to waaaaaiiiiiiitttttt for another month+, price unknown, performance unknown (although I'm...

Septemberish is not the release time frame for Oblivion, although some cards sold in September will likely be bundled with Oblivion. But the game will be released between now and the end of March.

Thanks for all your thoughts. I use good headphones and Z-5500s - the system I'm building is multi-purpose: games, movies, video editing, home stereo. I think what I might do is simply go with onboard sound and see what that's like before I spend the money on a sound card, although I have...

If you could buy the basic XFI or the Audigy 2ZS Platinum Pro (both at same price), which would you buy and why?

I just bought a Dell 2405 FPW. Is my Radeon AIW 9700 Pro 128 MB GPU enough to drive this baby? I will use the screen for movies, video editing, and games. Thanks for assists!