I just checked to see what price Future Shop was selling their ATI X1950 256 Pro card for...and lo and behold, they have delisted it. I then went to Best Buy, and can't find it either!!!!I bet that ATI has stopped selling this card because of how incredibly good this part was/is and it is impeding the sale of the newer cards.This part certainly was a 'sleeper card' for sure, especially with it being run by the Cat 7.10 driver suite.If you want or were thinking of getting an X1950 Pro...I suggest you find one somewhere while you still can and BUY IT! :)Mitch

Mitch,I have one with 512 and I love it, espicially with the new Omega drivers based on the 7.10 drivers . . . it just keeps on getting better.Best,clayhttp://www.dreamfleet2000.com/gfx/images/F...ers/Dopke01.jpgClayton T. Dopke (Clay)Major, USAF (retired)"Drac"

Newegg still lists a number of them: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList....Radeon+X1950PROOf course, with the release of the 3850/3870 cards this week even the X1950 Pro will pale in comparison: http://iax-tech.com/video/3870/38701.htmGood for us that ATI and nVidia are releasing some great performing cards for less than the standard $500...

I am currently playing with a 3870 sample on a X38 MB and 9650 CPU and frame rates are through the roof. Picture quality of the 3870 is fantastic! Why anyone would go for a 2 year old card is (considerably) beyond me, to phrase it politely.

Wow, could you explain more things about this card; noise, fps with AA and AF; FS9, FSX... please?Thanks in advance.Miquel Egea.

Unfortunately I don't have the time or the access right now to do card testing, the setup I am watching is mainly used to test the new processors under strain. We have been running a Yorksfield for 2 months on full load with different cooling at 4 and 5 Ghz, on different motherboards. We played with FSX on the new ASUS P5E3 DELUXE board and the OC'd processor and got fantastic frame rates. Using different nVidia cards (8500, 8600, 8800) didn't actually make much of a difference in frame rates. Last week we put in the ATI3870 and got much higher frames with sliders to max, but I can't offer any systematic testing. Tom's Hardware are working on that though. http://www.tomshardware.com/us/For those depending on add-ons like PMDG/LDS/FEX etc., the new processor generation will make a big difference. The image of the 3870 is fantastically crisp, better than any card I have seen so far.

>This part certainly was a 'sleeper card' for sure, especially>with it being run by the Cat 7.10 driver suite.Wow, I guess I lucked out! My 6800GT/OC died so I bought one of these dudes at Best Buy as a closeout at . . . $140! It smokes my 6800GT, tho I don't know if I should try the 7.1 drivers as I am running Windows 2000, and it's the AGP version of the card. BTW, I remembered my BFG 6800GT/OC had a lifetime warranty, so I contact BFG and voila, they send me a 7800GS 256mg AGP. Not bad for a free upgrade! Anyway, if anyone's tried AGP version + Win2K + 7.1 I'd appreciate the insight.Noel