Here is a good review of the new Nvidia GeForce 8 Series (XFX 8800 GTS/GTX) video cards. One of the tests was on FSX, so you can see how well these latest video cards perform right now in FSX (DirectX 9.0c and Windows XP Pro SP2) with:Intel Core 2 Extreme QX67002 x 1 Gb OCZ PC2-8800 @ DDR2-800http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/8800nv...x120/flight.phpJOE

From looking at that, it seems like we would get 50 fps with a high end machine with the 88000 gtx. (That's dreaming) I doubt this is the case as verified by the above post. 15-17 fps. I still will get dual 8800 gtx on a new Core duo when Vista comes out. It'll cost me $5500. I still expect 30 fss then - which is fine.

Yeah right, that review I believe is from Nvidia's own SLI Zone and if it were acurate then owners of 7950 GPU's would all be happy flying the friendly skies at 30+fps; ughh not happening!My machine is a C2Duo E6700 with 2 Gig's DDR2 and a pair of 7800GT's in SLI mode. Certainly not top of the line but good enough for 13,294 on 3D Mark 05 and I am seeing abot 22-25 frames max dropping to 14-17 in the detailed environments. My sliders are set fairly high but are no way maxed out.No doubt the GeForce 8 series are beasts but until DX10 ships I'll hold what I got. by then they might have a new series or ATI might fire back as well. I think it's the wrong time to be buying a new GPU unless you have to, but if you do, then absolutly the 8 Series is the only way to go.Blaze

AFAIK, 8800s are not what MS expects of DX10 hardware 100%. The reason paraphrased and shortened: On a 8800, the GPU multitasking distribution is still done 'in software'. MS would like to see hardware distributing GPU-tasks. Therefore, a 8800 likely requires more CPU-cycles than a fully DX10 compliant GPU once available. One of the most important DX10 aims is to lessen CPU-cycles. I fully second Blaze's words of wisdom and advise, to hold back a bit if somewbody is looking for a fully compliant DX10-solution. OTOH, I would love to have a 8800 for the AF-features alone! :-) Kind regards Jaap

>AFAIK, 8800s are not what MS expects of DX10 hardware 100%. >>The reason paraphrased and shortened: On a 8800, the GPU>multitasking distribution is still done 'in software'. MS>would like to see hardware distributing GPU-tasks. Therefore,>a 8800 likely requires more CPU-cycles than a fully DX10>compliant GPU once available. One of the most important DX10>aims is to lessen CPU-cycles. >>I fully second Blaze's words of wisdom and advise, to hold>back a bit if somewbody is looking for a fully compliant>DX10-solution. OTOH, I would love to have a 8800 for the>AF-features alone! :-) >>Kind regards >>Jaap Jaap,Could you please explain or link an ariticle where you said that the the multi tasking distribution is still done "in software" vs hardware?Manny

Hi Manny, my (single) source for this info is a German magazine called c't which normally is very reliable. Edition 25/06, pages 132ff in an 'emulated' article about DX10. :-) For obvious reasons, I would love to see this backed up by a second source, but to date nobody seems to do so. If you're interested, I could try a brief expos