For those of us looking to upgrade for SOW

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Originally Posted by lbuchele

Maybe this is old news for people here but Nvidia is planning to launch a new VGA card shortly after ATI 6990 , named GTX 590, a dual GPU solution like the 6990 is.
It's good to see competition and probably is a good idea to wait a little because Il2 had in the past better performance in Nvidia based solutions.
(I'm no fan of any brand in particular)

As a manufacturer you have to come up with products to keep sales turning over , be it re-badged video cards or multi GPU's, SLI or Crossfire its all designed to do one thing.....................part you with your hard earned cash.

I have built and sold all the above PC's and the customers have been very happy with their new "Rigs".

Until they read some GPU fan site claiming the next and best greatest thing, I then repeat above process customer goes away happy.......again.

Problem is they are individually not seeing the "big picture" the cheaper systems I make that run with exactly the same performance as they are number hunters and want very specific parts they have been told are the latest and greatest.

Its simply not true.

Hardware hits a peak then its going to be quite a while until the nest major difference hardware hits the market, meantime there's releases of minor hardware with claims of "this is the new must have" simply to keep creating sales.

You have to look hard these days to cut through the sales and fanboi site stuff to find the hardware at the right specification and price.

Believe it or not some of my customers have bought hardware because it just looked cool