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The X1900 is a very fast card, especially if you play video games. And I don't mean Solitare.

I do play video games and I don't mean solitaire. ;-)

But rumors have even faster video cards coming out in the Spring, and the ATI work units will be out of beta testing in March.

Dang, that's what I can't stand about technology, you get the latest gizmo, and five minutes later...it's obsolete. March, huh? Dang.

I am building a PVR for the family and I wanted the ATI X1900 AIW to record TV. Figured that it would make the perfect folding box - record and playback and the rest of the time just folding away.

Since I couldn't find an X1900AIW at a price I am willing to pay, I will hold out until Stanford releases the production GPU cores. But when I do buy a PVR card, it will be the best hardware to run F@H.

There is nothing from ATI (that I have heard) will have more than 48 pixel shaders, that will be released in 2007. The talk is of integrating Direct X 10 into the silicon and upping the memory to DDR3 across the whole line.

If you buy now the Direct X 10 features is the biggest upgrade you will be missing out on. That is not really a huge issue. I think that the cards are starting to pull ahead of game designers, at least for a bit.