I'm in the market to buy a new video card, and someone told me that if I'm planning on getting a new video card, it should be directx 10 capable... but he couldn't explain why it was important... I currently have an Nvidia 6600 (old card), something in the late 7000 series was what I was planning on upgrading to but the person reccomended I get the 8800 series... explanation anyone?

 

i say wait a little while (if money is a big factor) cause once more Dx10 cards come out you can get a high 7000 series for prolly alot cheaper or just wait fro some more dx10 card to flood the market.

 

your rigth opium i just check

 

DirectX is a series of APIs and hardware specs for cards to be certified as directx compatible MS uses to lighten the load (and maintain an effective monopoly) on game developers and to a lesser extent multimedia functions/developers (some video cards and other things have hardware based deinterlacing or enhanced audio features but this is fairly rare and not supported very often by end user programs).

DirectX 10 is the newest version of this and is being pushed with vista, it seems likely that a lot of new games will benefit from/be tied to directx10.
The upside of this is everyone is trying to shift directx9 certified/compatible cards which have now peaked in terms of design and drivers and run fantastically and so are selling them for peanuts.
To this end I think Dirtie has the right idea although make sure your motherboard if you buy one can take PCI express/PCIe (they all should) as that seems to be the interface of choice these days.

 

Will wait! Thanks folks!

 

go to gametrailers and download a HD Crysis flythrough and watch DX10.

cyberpowerpc is still cheaper than building your own pc (that is where i got my pc)