Quote Originally Posted by jas420221 View Post
Impressed by a card that trades punches with a 9800gtx...a card that will be $199 very shortly with the supposed release of the 9800gtx+ for $230 that should beat it out consistently... What am I missing here? (seriously)
WHat are you missing here?How about this:
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...s_GTX_w_AA.png

You better hope that 9800GTX on steroids have some mind blowing GPU/mem. clocks and some funky magic driver improvements ,since it will need them to overcome 42% deficit in performance (on average) in 16x12 8AA 16AF modes,when compared to Radeon 4850 ,which btw will cost 169$ in 2 weeks time(just wait for it and see it yourself).Not to mention power consumption of the 9800GTX+ which will be higher.