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DirectX 10.1 Requires No New GPU.

But DirectX 10.1 Video Card Is Recommended

.At SIGGRAPH 2007 conference Microsoft announced the details of the new DirectX updates version 10.1. They pointed out that to ensure full support of DirectX 10.1 you need not only to install Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista, but you may also need to replace a graphics card. Contemporary graphics accelerators from Nvidia GeForce 8800 and AMD/ATI Radeon 2900 may not support all the new features added to Direct3D 10.1

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I guess I am one of the lucky ones who decided to wait until DX10 is more mainstream before making the jump
Like in about a year

[alex]

I like all the "May not" comments though, kinda hedging there. Putting the "may not's" into real-speak they're saying "we're guessing". Yeah, nice.

Besides I'd much rather have a card that had a much more balanced layout (in the form of stream processors) as you'll never see parts of the card sitting idle in certain areas of a game ( in the case of cards with vertex and pixel pipes). These cards can also cause frame rates to drop because there's always a disparagy between the number of pixel pipes and vertex pipes on that type of card, so a scene that requires using vertex shading will more than likely cause a frame rate drop. Which in turn will mean stuttering in the game, which is about the most annoying thing that can happen when gaming.