Depends if your an Nvidia fanboy or not. For current (DX7 & DX8) games a Radeon 9700pro, I've got one, never had any trouble with it, I run everything at 1600x1200, though it will go higher. But if you're hankering after Doom3 then you may as well wait 3 months and see what happens. I was reading on extreme tech that some of the first gen of the 5800's were better then the 5900 because of the DDR2 memory built in. They're cutting costs on the 5900 and only fiting DDR1. But if you're paying that much for a card, then you may want to look at the Radeon 9800pro too, little faster, they tweaked the pixel shaders, etc. But in all honesty, $400+ GFX cards are for bragging rights. We won't see DX9 games go mainstream for one-two years yet, as it will take that long for the game production cycle to catch up with the hardware. But for serious 3d stuff, yeah, take the Quadro, no question. later jb