| rudyrsr8 said: The thing is immediatly when the new cards come out it tkes awhile for any one game to use it properly and that takes about a year to and then its cheaper but then new ones come out. |
Of course not. New video card generations usually have an immediate 50% performance advantage over the previous one. You're thinking of DirectX version, and I agree it takes a while to fully utilise that but new cards generally have much better performance on the older DirectX version too.
The reason why it's taking so long for DirectX 10/10.1 to be adopted is that it is Vista-only.
Just upgrade to the 9600GTO (basically the 8800GS with a different name). It should be nearly equal for like $80 less.
You're thinking of the 3850. A new generation of video cards will be better value than the old one for sure.
If you need to upgrade now, then it's not worth doing unless you can get at least a 9600GT or HD3850.
Because nVidia probably considersthat the G100 should be the debut 10.1 cards and not a revision like the G260 and 280.
GT200 is the new architecture. The codename replaced G100. The reason they're not using 10.1 is because few games use it and they have publicly proclaimed its irrelevance.
