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Originally Posted by Akuma

Not with the newest series. I'd recommend ATI for any card before the X800 Pro. But once you get into the $400 range, Nvidia is back with a vengence. First of all you can't buy X800XT-PEs or 6800Us anywhere so that limits you to waiting for a backordered product that hasn't been released or getting a 6800GT/X800 Pro. The 6800GT is just the all around better card.

What benchmarks have you been reading? For the most part in d3d x800xt kicks the ever loving shit out of any nvidia board, even the fabled farcry patch with shadermodel 3.0 support which was supposed to give nvidia an advantage in terms of framerate still has ati out on top. Nvidia is a little faster in opengl, but ati is rewriting their opengl driver so expect performance boost there as well.