>"I won't have to buy the first extremely overpriced>versions of DirectX 10 cards.">>Exactly. They put a card thats barely useable with its beta>drivers and charge $800. and in another 3 months they come out>with another card with 1000 times better whatever (in reality>it would only be marginal improvement).... then another one in>another 3 months... and on and on and on.. .with its marginal>improvements.>>I bought such a card 2 years ago.. the NVidia FX-5900 Ultra>whatever for $700. I wish I was wiser then. :)>>Manny Yup Manny; I was able to avoid the tempation at the time, and just got anATI X800GTO for $135.00...same price I paid for my 9600xt 2 yrs ago:-lol Sometimes, good things DO come to those who wait.:-jumpy Regards Denny

i got x800 gto as well.. but i also unlocked the extra pipes.. went form 12 to 16 pipes for price of around $160...the retail gto 2 or whatever they are called are selling for like 260 +