A lot depends on why you are upgrading your card. Many times,a card that is designed for gaming,may not perform as well in 3D graphic environments.(Such as OpenGL) I have a 3DLabs Wildcat 880 Pro,which serves me well for Open GL. So it depends on what you want to do..Is your wife a gamer? or a 3D Artist? I've had all types of dives succeed and fail My Maxtor served me well for several years ,but did give up the ghost.and my Western Digital drives have also crapped out after a while. My Seagate does pretty well so far but I've had an IBM that clearly beats them all in performance. It could very well be the luck of the draw but I've found the Seagate drivers to be most efficient. Tom

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