I would also wait to let Nvidia address their current issues with heat and noise. They're going to need a die shrink to address these issues. I would wait at least till fall with their new refresh.

On the other hand you have ATI which is showing that it's almost as fast in some cases faster (most likely driver) than Fermi. Much cooler and a lot less cost than Nvidia.

As tempting it is to go with a single card that's more than 2 times faster than what I have now I'm going to wait yet another summer before upgrading. ATI may be the way to go if their second revs which are starting to surface now. It's hard to say with the lack of DX 11 titles if its worth the upgrade now.

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Indeed Captain :) It will be interesting to see how it settles after both companies get their stuff refreshed and drivers top notch. Hopefully it results in a healthy price competition, good for us consumers :) I am waiting for my 2Gb ATI card now, ordered it. Shall see when it comes, waited for my 5870HD for like 2 months last year after release...

Believe me I've been tempted and the 2 gig 5870 sounds like the way to go for now.

hey Cap'n why is a 2gig single GPU the way to? From What I've read around the web (and I may be a little out of date on this) 2gigs only really becomes a noticeable factor at resolutions higher than 1900x1200. I'm talking a 30 inch monitor here. So, I'd like to know your perspective. I will admit that I'd consider buying a 2gig single GPU card if it improves performance at lower resolutions. Like 1900x1080.
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GFX's change more than anything else in a rig so I really don't like paying out too much cash on them. I got me a 8800gtx oc a while back and I'm still loving it :D.

I was planning to buy a 64 bit computer with 8G mem for SOW, will it run better on 64 bit and bulk memory or will 32 / 4G be better?

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Oleg states that SoW is coded to run with multiple core processors, so I'd say a 64bit system would be best, especially since it can take advantage of more than 4gigs of system memory. I'm just guessing, of course. ;)
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That's true for FPS's etc, but I'll have to disagree with you on that with simulations. IL-2, DCS, FSX etc are pretty much CPU frequency driven. Whether that is due to their old architechture or not I don't know. But I hope SoW will be different.

whit my xfx 5850 black edition and windows 7 64 i play so many games in very detail and 1400 resolution. but the AA in middle.
Hope will dont have so dificult roblems to play SOW in some future. anyway, i have a silencer 750w. i buy another 5850 and i can do a SLI- ( i think)

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Depending what ATI has released during autumn it will be either CrossFire 5870HD 2Gb or some of their refreshed GPU's. Should be enough to run SoW :)