Whets wrong it the grafix?

[Hitmen]

though nvidea is starting to make its move to dx9

Yea, but the new R420's still pwn the hell out of the new NV40 cards in DX9 games.

[quasi-modo]

well the 6800 has the best dx9 support to date for an nvidea card (which yea, ati has better support still), and has great poerformance. But ati whipped out a brute, x800, those 16 pipes will rape anything.... The reason x800 is better then 6800 is because of those pipes, not because of dx9 support, well not because of dx9 alone, because both have it covered fairly well.