Oh Jesus. I just read on ign that
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Today ATI announced its new family of X800 video cards. The company also announced launch partners, outfits that would be offering boards based on ATI's GPU. You could, of course, get a card straight from the source. Unlike nVidia, ATI offers its own SKUs. At any rate, here is the current list of partners:
ASUS
Celestica
Connect3D
FIC
GIGABYTE
Hightech Information Systems
Info-Tek
MSI
Sapphire
Tul
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The reason I highlighted Sapphire is because they make DAMN good ATI cards and it excites me. Anyways, Lasereth's right, this shit happens every year, and I said before, whenever Nvidia releases their "next-gen" solution, ATI comes back with something that's a little better. It's called differentation, people, and it occurs when products compete with each other and try to create factors that make each product, even though they're basically the same thing. It's a damn video card. Methods of differentation for video cards come from 1) how good they make games and everything else look and 2) how good the scores are on certain benchmarks (i.e. 3dMark2003, Aquamark, Far Cry timedemo, etc.)
Anyways, I'm agreeing with Las and saying that the newest cards are begging to be bought, it's not necessary that you go out and blow 500 clams on every latest and greatest card that gets put out, unless your life depends on busting 10,000 on 3dMark2003 or you just have shitlodes of money to waste on it. Damn that was a long sentence.
Me personally, I'll probably wait until the R500 series comes out and is decently priced, because that'll just about time for a new computer, and I'll be feeling generous enough to shell out that kind of cash.