As far as the cards go, they haven't even started stressing the AGP 4X bandwidth yet. I've thrown all the Unreal's, Enter the Matrix, and the newest Tomb raider at my GF4-TI4400, and it has handled them all, at full effects & 40+ fps. I wouldn't worry about the card, and the first engine that -may- actually strain the GF4's (Doom 3) hasn't made it out the door yet. You =might= want to check into the 9700's Open GL support, though. Nvidia hasn't gotten the implementation right yet...or more accurately, they skew it for gameplay, not standards compatibility. A good, compliant Open GL card will help with Vue for certain.