I have been waiting on the ATI 2900XT card.

Finally you can order the card, here in Sweden. The sell it for 3700sek. (about 530 dollar).
The cheapest Nvidia 8800GTX card costs 4700kr (about 670 dollar).

I work most, but sometimes I want to play a game. Have a Dell XPS 700, with 3ghz@3.6ghz Core2 processor. 2x320 gig stripe boot disk, 2 gig memory, Ageia card, Soundblaste Xfi.

The motherboard is a Nvidia 570SLI.
Monitor Apple Cinema Display 2560x1600

Should I get the Nvidia 8800GTX or a ATI 2900XT?

Does the "new" crossfire work on any dual PCI express motherboard or do I need ATIs motherboard?

Buy one ATI now, and 3-4 month later one more?

I will run Vista.

Thanks for the help

Just wait until next week when the NDA is lifted to actually see if the 2900 is any good. I personally think it will be but have no data to prove it. You will need an ATI chipset to run them in crossfire. Just be patient for a couple more days...

I think youll be glad you waited for various reasons

You if plan on SLI'ing in the future then your only choice is NVidia. If you are just going to use one card then wait until the benchmarks come out in order to decide between the two.

Get the one that is currently available....

We won't know what is better until the NDA is lifted; just wait a few more days.

If you wait and the R600 isn't all it's cranked up to be the prices of the 8800's should at least drop a bit.

Get the intel GMA X3100 !

It's the newest chip on the street!
All the cool kids are getting one.

Why ask this question on May 10th. Seriously, unless it is a Mother's Day gift wait till Monday.

Which brings me to this point. Does AMD not realize the sales they will have lost by launching these cards after Mother's Day?

I'm not getting your logic there.

You don't see the logic that missing the big Mother's Day GPU rush is poor planning. Then again maybe I'm assuming to much, if you're a euro this wouldn't be Mother's day like here in the US and Canada. Either way I was only kidding.

Maybe his Mom has a big Crysis poster in the living room
If that's the case, he has my congratulations!!!

Does anybody have any idea about the quality of AMD's drivers? I know nVidia's drivers still stink on Vista after all these months. What if AMD's are even worse, being newer and all?

My bad, had my joke sensors turned off.

Maybe his Mom has a big Crysis poster in the living room
If that's the case, he has my congratulations!!!

Does anybody have any idea about the quality of AMD's drivers? I know nVidia's drivers still stink on Vista after all these months. What if AMD's are even worse, being newer and all?
I was under the impression that everything stinks on Vista.

And you'd be pretty much correct with that assumption.

Quick recap:

Everything does stink in Vista (for now)

Since you have an SLI board unless you're planning on changing that go with the 8800GTX since it did beat the pants off the 2900XT with "release drivers". That is IF you ever plan on the possibility of dual graphics cards in that system.

Still not a bad idea to wait til the release of the 2900XT if you can just in case they pull a miracle OC or something out of their hats (doubtful) or at least see a price reduction for the 8800 series (possibly). But a few more $ in your pocket is worth another few days wait after waiting this long eh?

We also have grads and dads coming up too. Lets not forget these drive times for most retailers.

i ain't in the mood for these posts.

have you met my whip

no? have a feel of it. *Whips noob hard*

now, you deserve that for three reasons.

1.you ask such a stupid question

2.you bought a dell(most likely you don't even own that)

3.you claim to own a ageia card.

need i say more.

That may be true today, but that also holds the hope of next week. Its possbile that the X2900 XT will work fine in Vista, thus showing its worth the wait.

Anyway, to the OP, hang on for a few more days and then you can make decisions based on real benches from real websties (Tom's, Anandtech, etc) and if nothing else, perhaps get a 8800 series card for a few less dollars.

Whip it good.

Please, Mast.....

*turns around and runs for life*

You like that whip, don't you?

Let me guess, you took some schooling at the University of the Marque de' Sade.