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[radiv]

Yep...
But understand me right... There's nothing wrong with Dell computers, but the cheapes models of ALL brands has cheap and useless graphics cards.

edit:
Did you know that high-end graphics cards (6800 Ultra and X800XT) are 200$ cheaper in US compared to Norway?

[Maikel]

It depends on the range of your card to. If you buy a Radeon 9600 pro. It doesnt really matter if it's 128mb or 256. The higher end cards have a slightly bigger difference between 128 and 256. But still not really that great.

Better invest in regular RAM.

[radiv]

Almost 90% of the high-end cards have 256mb ram. But as you says, its wasted money to buy a R9600 or FX5600 with 256mb

[Titan]

Silicon Grafix! 2 GB Video mem!

Seriously, Internal memory and CPU is more often the problem then the GPU and its memory... A good steady L1 and L2 cash for the GPU and CPU is also a good idea to have.. so down with Celeron!

Hard-drives CAN be a problem depending on the tasks. But if you have 512 - 1024 MB RAM onboard, it will load most into the memory in advance..

Having a 800 MHz system bus also speeds things up

Well... if you wanna ruin your D3 experince, plug in a TFT to your 1337 machine
Can promise some fun effects when you try and play with high fps..

[WildZeppelin]

chop chop with dittos. That's why I sport 1.5gig of ram. I've been able to OC my bus just past a gigahertz too, but as far as I could tell I didn't see too significant a difference. I'd like to see if anyone with specs close to mine yield much of a difference with 2 or more gig of ram.

[The Levitating Nun]

Dual video cards are apparently coming out this year from nvidia, so improvement on the all important graphics front is coming. So our games will be far far prettier if not actually any better to the classics. Shame about that eh?

[Data]

nah i don't value pretty that much.
I would never get a game because it looks pretty.

[WildZeppelin]

atmosphere plays a pretty big role, but I agree. There haven't been any games too engrossing for a good long while. I hope I haven't been ruined by age here....

[cheesegrater]

512 mb video cards will be about the size of a Voodoo 5 6000. There is a limit to how small you can make all the circuits - you're gonna have to make the card bigger. Computers are going to start getting bigger again.

[WildZeppelin]

I'm in no rush to go PCI Express GPU. I'll just be happy when the prices drop to an affordable & comparable level. I don't mind altering out GPUs every year or so, but I'd like the jump to be worth the cost.