" As for those of you who are still in a holding pattern: you need to dive in soon." Why would people want to folow this advice if this "The R700 is on its way, as well as Nvidia’s refresh of the G80." is going to happen. If you want a low level pc for less demanding games,interestingly you class the sims as such in your article and i have upgraded gpu twice before so the wife can run it.then there is no need to rush as the cards are not going anyware. Secondly if you are after more performance then dosent it make sunce to wait for the G80 refresh and R700 as prices should then drop on the lower cards ie 8800gts. My take on it is that when the prices come down and the new cards come out the 8800gts will be the midrange.
Yes this is true but we are talking about the midrange here not what is the latest and greatest and i beleive that as far as gaming goes to buy a card bellow the x1650xt/7600gt which comes out at 2600xt/8600gt/gts with the newer cards just isnt worth it. That dosent leave many cards above that so with the new cards hopefully being better than the present offerings that makes the 8800gts320/640 the only real midrange cards in my opinion. And as the article said you cant sit on the fence for ever but personally i like to sit long enough to tell the wheat from the chaff. Mactronix
" As for those of you who are still in a holding pattern: you need to dive in soon."
Why would people want to folow this advice if this "The R700 is on its way, as well as Nvidia’s refresh of the G80." is going to happen.
If you want a low level pc for less demanding games,interestingly you class the sims as such in your article and i have upgraded gpu twice before so the wife can run it.then there is no need to rush as the cards are not going anyware.
Secondly if you are after more performance then dosent it make sunce to wait for the G80 refresh and R700 as prices should then drop on the lower cards ie 8800gts.
My take on it is that when the prices come down and the new cards come out the 8800gts will be the midrange.
but Mactronix, when r700 comes out, not long after that there will be the next load of new, better cards
Yes this is true but we are talking about the midrange here not what is the latest and greatest
and i beleive that as far as gaming goes to buy a card bellow the x1650xt/7600gt which comes out at 2600xt/8600gt/gts with the newer cards just isnt worth it.
That dosent leave many cards above that so with the new cards hopefully being better than the present offerings that makes the 8800gts320/640 the only real midrange cards in my opinion.
And as the article said you cant sit on the fence for ever but personally i like to sit long enough to tell the wheat from the chaff.
Mactronix