14th July 2010, 7:44 PM
I have a GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB, a pretty high-end card for early 2007. Not the most expensive, but upper tier. I got that quite intentionally because I wanted to be sure to have a card that would be good for years -- no more being stuck with an outdated card that doesn't support hardware features newer games require, like I was for several years on my older computer when all I had was GeForce2 and so many games required a GeForce3... and the 8800 has done a great job of that, and still can run anything as I said. Sure, Crysis or Shattered Horizon, both Vista/7-only DirectX9-exclusive titles that can push a system extremely hard, can be reduced to single-digit framerates easily, but it's not like there aren't graphics options to find a good medium.