OK T-Mobile...

I have stayed with you for a very long time. Taken shit from everyone, went through the shitty 3g and everything. But you treated me good and always had the best plans. But I been on this G1 for a hell of a long time (left a iPhone for it... I needed a keyboard.) and it is reaching EOL status really fast if not already there. That phone as ugly as it is has a hell of a spec sheet. I thought you were going to stay at the top of the Android phone mountain? I will sit and wait a bit longer because my trusty G1 has not failed me yet but you better get on the ball and fast. And I expect a 4" screen & a Snap Dragon processor.

Nvidia was not better than Ati during the 9700/9800 days and they are not now. When the 4780 X2 hits it a pretty sure bet it will be the clear number one. Know your gfx card history. They tend to lead in cycles. With one leading for 1-2 years.

The Ati 4870 CF beats everything in...

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (all resolutions)
Half-Life 2: Episode Two (all resolutions)
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (all resolutions)
Assassin's Creed (all resolutions)
Race Driver GRID (all resolutions)

In Crysis It is right behind the Geforce 280 by 1 fps (tie?). But But GF 9800 gtx+ in sli and GF 9800gx2 lead it by 7 fps give or take.

The Ati 4870 in CF is also better than all Nvidia cards in the 3DMark Vantage overall index, but two parts of the benchmart. In physics & cpu test it loses very badly because of Nvidia's port of the PhysX API to its CUDA GPU-computing platform.

All in all CF is very nice and only 2/3 the price of a single Geforce 280. If you are using either the 4850 or 4870 you are neck and neck with the 260 & 280. Often Ahead of the 280 if using the 4870. I see some people saying the 4870 was to be matched with the Geforce 280 that is wrong. In Aug. of this year Ati will release a 4870x2 and that card will (kill?) go against the Geforce 280. One also has to look at what Nvidia will do after seening all this. I think they will do a die shrink and bring GDDR5 to the table since the 280 uses GDDR3. That could put the Geforce 280 in a class all by itself. Not to mention the die shrink should allow the Geforce 280 to be used in Sli without having to use a 1200 PSU. Good times these are. Nvidia you are on the clock...

Ati 4850 - $199 (this card is pretty much the best bang for the buck)
Ati 4870 - $299 (This card will out stay with a 260 and two of them will leave the whole pack)

Geforce 260 $399
Geforce 280 $649

GeForce 9800 GX2 $470 (The will be better than a 280 most of the time)
9800 GTX $199 (Just take a 4850)
9800 GTX+ $225 (Take the 4850 of even the 4870)

There is this thing called installer buddy.... When I was going through the drive-thur the guy in the call in back of me was dressed very badly as a woman. I managed to get some of it on film was an iphone video recorder.

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