[skinnyman9000]

Originally Posted by SocialWarfare

I feel sorry for those people that have bought DX10 cards and are going to have to use emulating software to run their cards when DX10.1 comes out, M$ screwing people over again or actually it is more like the GPU makers screwing people over as it was always M$' intention to release DX10.1

It'll kick in eventually, ...........he says

[alex]

Eventually is the operative word fella. Look how long it took to make use of DX9.....

Saying that, look how long it's taken to make use of dual-core cpu's in a mainstream way. 2 years? 3 years? something like that.

Wonder how long it'll take until quad-core's benefit from having 4 cores.

In their defence though, developers writing any code and testing it upon completion can take years potentially.

[skinnyman9000]

I suppose there is that case.

But on the other hand, even if it does take 2-3yrs to kick in then at least i'll be running a quad core DX10 system, so wont need to upgrade then.

[alex]

Originally Posted by skinnyman9000

I suppose there is that case.

But on the other hand, even if it does take 2-3yrs to kick in then at least i'll be running a quad core DX10 system, so wont need to upgrade then.

True, but at that point in time we'll probably have 8-core cpu's or somesuch, with 8950Ultras, 2ghz ddr3, flash hdd's mainstream etc etc. And the mainstream pricing to match

As ever, with the passage of time. Your system that's kickass now, won't be so kickass in a couple of years.