ICPD/4S_Nero - thanks ever so much for the replies gents!

I went ahead and pressed the 'buy' button - one HD4870 is now inbound for the measly price of $269.99 CDN! Lovely!! :cool:

Hedge

You;re welcome hedge. Be sure to use drivercleaner to remove your old rivers (if Nvidia) before installing ATI drivers. I hope (know) you will enjoy the card and it is a great price too.

Going back to the texture issues if you set your aa and af in the standard settings using the slider and apply. Then set your aa and af then apply those it seems to clear up those texture problems, it did for me.

I am using two 4870 in crossfire with every thing maxed out to maxium getting frames from 70 - 1000.
There are problems with that control panel, took me a while to figure it out.

I would go with ATI at the mo. The 4800 series are A1.