I'm still of the opinion that ATI has dropped the ball and buying there
product is crazy. Sure the 2900 is outperforming Nvidia's present mid-range
cards. But in the very very near future, Nvidia is going to release there
2ND Generation DX10 cards and ATI won't be able to compete. When this
happens all the 8800 cards will drop in price and a 2nd 8800 GTS will be
an option to consider for present owners. ATI isn't going to be able to
drop and match prices without sacrificing research & development costs.
This is going to lead to even worse driver support and slower product
development (which is already way behind). The last I heard AMD/ATI
plans to start focusing on OEM products for General Usage. Buy what
you want, but I'm steering everyone I know away from AMD/ATI. If I
did anything else I think karma would just bite me on the ass.

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