[Vlad]

Hi, everyone!

I have a really important question I need to ask.

I'm getting a new PC, and I first wanted to get two 8800GTSs. (spelling? lol)
Then SocialWarfare told me that 2 GTSs barely beat one GTX.
So now I'm getting two GTXs. :)

The questions are:
Are two Ultras a lot better than two GTXs? I can see they're better, but is it only a little?
I can get them for only $180 more. That isn't much, since I'm already paying $1890 for the video cards alone ($4905 for the whole PC).

And, the more important one:
Should I wait for the 8900/8950? I mean, will I have full compatibility with everything, or will I wake up one day that I don't have full compatibility with DX10 or whatever?

Full Specs (kind of poorly translated from Romanian :():

GTX:

EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GTX KO w/ACS3 (768-P2-E837-AR)
Processor: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
128 stream processors
Memory: 768MB GDDR3
Bus memory: 384 bit
Bandwidth: 96 GB/s (86.4 GB/s standard)
Processor frequency: 626 MHz (575 MHz standard)
Memory frequency: 2 GHz (1.8 GHz standard)
Shader Clock: 1.45 GHz (1.35 GHz standard)
Integrated NVIDIA TV encoder: HDTV, S-Video
Connectors: Dual DVI-I
Interface: PCI Express 16X

Ultra:

EVGA e-GeForce 8800 Ultra SUPERCLOCKED (768-P2-E887-AR)
Processor: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
128 stream processors
Memory: 768MB GDDR3
Bus memory: 384 bit
Bandwidth: 120 GB/s (103.68 GB/s standard)
Processor frequency: 655 MHz (612 MHz standard)
Memory frequency: 2.25 GHz (2.16 GHz standard)
Shader Clock: 1.51 GHz
Integrated NVIDIA TV encoder: HDTV, S-Video
Connectors: Dual DVI-I
Interface: PCI Express 16X

If you bothered reading this, and if you can help me, thanks! :)

EDIT:
Also, HOLY CRAP!
http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_gpu_processor.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_deskside.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_gpu_server.html

[evilfantasy]

And, the more important one: Should I wait for the 8900/8950? I mean, will I have full compatibility with everything, or will I wake up one day that I don't have full compatibility with DX10 or whatever?

Please consider that Hardware is not my strong point!!! But I have read that Vista SP1 is going to include DX10.1 which is going to invalidate high end video cards and what not. Like the 8800.
You may want to keep things on hold until you find out where Vista is actually going.
Again this is all above me, I'm just going on what I have read.

[Vlad]

That's alright, thanks for helping! ;)

Well, I pretty much figured it out, but one big question remains:

Will I have !!!FULL!!! compatibility with EVERYTHING (DX10 etc. etc.), or will I wake up one morning in the near future to see that every game needs compatibility with some new thing, and that my card isn't compatible with it, or that Microsoft released some new edition of DX10, and that my card doesn't have full compatibility with it?

Sorry for being so......insistent. :)

Oh, and I'm probably getting a couple of superclocked Ultras. :)