OT: Deciding on a new graphics card

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Ok, I read these. They are indeed blaming the media corps and acting like M$ (and Apple) has no choice but to design their OS so that it supports this wacked-out DRM design (HDMI/HDCP) that requires computers not to have full control over their audio/visual devices.

Still seems to me that this is unacceptable to me. I don't want to run a so-called Operating System that doesn't let me control my computer, nor do I want hardware that is wired to turn itself off or degrade its performance unless it is obeying some such protocol. My word for that remains sabotage, and it applies to Vista.