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!

 

Cards supporting DirectX 10 are on their way, but games supporting DirectX 10 won't be here in a long time. You see, only Vista supports DX10. Win XP don't. But Vista supports games made for the WinXP. So developers won't make any Vista-only games, when they can make WinXP games, and sell them to all. Only when the majority of users switch to Vista will Vista exclusives become financially feasible, and devs will start making DirectX 10 games. Until then, no need to get a DX10 supporting graphics card.

 

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)