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On that note, IMHO emphasis on the storage will not be a big one, or at least the kind of gigantic storage that we think. In a couple of years hopefully North American internet infrastructure catches up and we should have no problem surfing at much faster speed (i.e. sustained 1000mbps+) and...

But you also have to take note that going from 4.3s to 3.3s (1s delta) is in fact much much harder than from going, let's say, 9.9s to 8.9s. It wouldn't really matter if I ran 100m in 14.2s and I reduced that to 13.2s. A whole lot of other people would do better than that or at least perform...

What we're saying is... Get dual core for gaming. As simple as that! :D

ummmm yeah so um my 9600GT shipped and um i put it in my box and, um it's awesome, it's great, too busy playing cod4, gotta alt-tab back, cheers all for all the help =)

Oh wow... This tread is getting longer than it needed because of me haha Final question: 9600GT for $183 or 8800GS@650MHz for $171?? Edit: (not that the price matters any more at this point, just performance wise)

And I just read that the Step-Up program has to be used within 90 days of the purchase date on the invoice. Hmph. Sounded too good to be true =)

You mean you return the old card and 100% of its cost is credited towards the purchase of a newer card? Is this program supported by the manufacturer or the retailer? For example, if I bought a card from NCIX in Canada, would I still be eligible for this step up program? Where can I read...

What is this step up program that you speak of?? :confused:

Cheers for that comment, you basically summed up what I wanted to say in more technical aspect. X800XT is a great great card, IMO ATI's finest card ever to hit the market. (Reminds me of nVidia's Riva TNT) I still love it, and does everything fine except when I play CoD4, which is the...

Hello all; thanks for all the advice, at NCIX.com I found 9600GT for $129.99CDN and 8800GS(550mhz) for $139.99... At this point I am probably going to pick the 9600GT for being $10 cheaper and carry it on to the next system for a bit, and then use it for physics or something at which...

Thanks for the response all; Well it seems as though here in Canada 8800GS is a rare commodity (i can only order through Tigerdirect.CA AND it's about $170 with $30 mail-in rebate which comes out to $140 + shipping of $20.) Ahhh... I might just pour water all over my current PC and use it...

Well I'm looking for an X800XT replacement, and it's almost 4 years old. I mean, it's a great card, so it's hard to top it off, but it's starting to show its age. ALL i am concerned right now, or what I need in terms of performance is this: I want to be able to play CoD4 at 1024x768...

Hmmm... How about a 8600GTS?? I really don't need 8800 series as I am not going to be needing DirectX 10 support until my next PC, how does 8600GTS perform vs 8800GS? I used tom's vga chard to compare some video cards and 8600GTS seems to be where it's at.

Cheers for an awesome response =) Well at these gas prices, most things are cheaper than a tank of gas, and I see you've got a 5.0 engine =) I will most likely consider gettnig an 8600GT for now, seems like an awesome deal, about double GPU power of what I have now is exactly what I am...

Ah I should have added more detail on my first post =) Yes, it is a PCIe system, full length at that. Well if I got a new card this time I wouldn't try to push it through my next PC build, I would just use it for max 10 months and then give it away. Would 9600GT be a nice upgrade from...