[Zagan]

Just read over this.

You really should buy the highest GFX card for the money you can get.

To buy something less is really wasting your money and is totally pointless.

A guy here is saying buy a mid range card sure that'll Last a year and half but if you buy a top of the range card it'll Last for 3 or more years before you really have to upgrade.

So this guy will have spent double the amount that a top of the range card will have cost him beacuse you'll have bought basicly 3 GFX cards compared to 1 for the same amount of time.

The reasons why to buy a top of the range card:
Able to handle DX9 in hardware.
ABle to do ALL the new lighting shading and anti-aliasing etc.
the fastest ram you can get.
The highest Resolutions you can get at the different Mhz for any monitor you may have.
The highest amounts of ram.
More features in the OS and on the card, such as TV in/out features you wouldn't ever get on a mid range card.
The fastest and most amounts of bandwidth for ram and for the different rendering pipes.

To play Far Cry properly and any of the newest games coming out now, That's Half-life 2, Stalker, UT2004/UT2005, and others.

You will need to have a DX9 or DX10 capable GFX card, anything less and you are basicly wasting your time even buying and installing the card these days.

Lower cards, will have lower resolutions and Mhz ranges.
Les ram, slower ram, less ram bandwidth and rendering pipes.
Few Features if any at all.
A top of the line mid-range card feature would be TV out and maybe dual head for having 2 monitors going at the same time.

Mid range cards are also spped limited and rendering features locked, so you could buy a mid range card that can't render light maps.

The low end GeForce 3 GFX cards were locked in this way execpt the GeForce 3 top end cards, even the GeForce 4 cards are in the same boat.