[Flyby]

Well baron that's an interesting article,and it seems to support your POV. Thank you for the link. It was very informative. I surmise from this that buying a card which supports DX11 at this time, and with SoW_BoB in mind, is superfluous. Probably it's best for future-proofing, provided something or some sim comes along to take advantage of it. I noted that the article also let me know that I needn't worry about straining my CPU to overclock it to it's max (on air, that is). But I'd like to wait until SOW's requirements are released before making a final decision on how much to overclock my little i7-920.
Still, while a DX11 card may be useless for SoW, or any sim/game at present, I'll probably buy one since a card like the ATI5850 performs as well as the GTX285 and still costs less, last time I checked. It's a no-brainer. Oleg's sim will probably make use of more on-board memory, so I'm looking at the GTX470, if budget allows. It's not really that much of a step up from the 5850, but it has more memory. I doubt that Oleg's sim will make great use of tessellation (why? I don't know. I just think not) in an air-combat sim. Besides, I hope to be too busy trying to stay alive to notice the subtleties ("goodness those clouds look awesome...BOOM-BOOM-BOOM!!! Great looking smoke!! Pretty FLAMES too!!!Over the side!)
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