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I was actually excited when I first saw DirectX 10 screenshots. You actually get foliage with DirectX10, especially in the third set. (Check out the mountains in the back.) Pity that Vista's poor uptake meant nobody besides Crysis or Hellgate: London did much with with it.

DirectX 11 was even more impressive--tesselation essentially gets you a hojillion transformable polygons for free. Check out the crowd animated entirely in GPU hardware.

If you really can't tell the difference, just rejoice, quietly, that all of your gaming needs were met nine years ago. You'll never be tempted to buy a new video card for that XP rig.

They're missing the 2009 model.

' He added that Intel had 'missed some key product milestones' in the development of the discrete Larrabee product,

Like proof that they were even capable of making an integrated graphics product that wasn't a pile of garbage?

GMA910: Couldn't run WDDM, thus couldn't run Aero, central to the "Vista capable" Lawsuits

GMA500: decent hardware, crappy drivers under Windows, virtually non-existant Linux drivers, worse performance than GMA950 in Netbooks.

Pressure to lockout competing video chipsets. We're lucky ION saw the light of day. http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,680035/Nvidia-versus-Intel-Nvidia-files-lawsuit-against-Intel/News/

The big advantage of DX 11 is Tesselation / Displacement, Realtime Meshdisplacement and making Normal maps into geometric detail. Here is dx 10 vs dx 11 : Dx 10 : http://www.pcgameshardware.com/screenshots/original/2009/10/Tesselation_aus.jpg Dx 11: http://www.pcgameshardware.com/screenshots/original/2009/10/Tessellation_an.jpg Even with the screenshots of the car in the link mentioned in the article you can see how the water is more interactive to the forces applied to it. But yes, just like the early days of anti-aliasing, this is going to complete rape PC's for a while.

The big advantage of DX 11 is Tesselation / Displacement, Realtime Meshdisplacement and making Normal maps into geometric detail. Here is dx 10 vs dx 11 : Dx 10 : http://www.pcgameshardware.com/screenshots/original/2009/10/Tesselation_aus.jpg Dx 11: http://www.pcgameshardware.com/screenshots/original/2009/10/Tessellation_an.jpg Even with the screenshots of the car in the link mentioned in the article you can see how the water is more interactive to the forces applied to it. But yes, just like the early days of anti-aliasing, this is going to complete rape PC's for a while.

ATI's Radeon HD4770 would be this card's analogue (mainstream DX10 hardware around $100) - widely available at around $110 on Newegg, and according to this review:

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,699611/Geforce-GT-240-Nvidias-fastest-DirectX-101-graphics-card-reviewed/Reviews/

Handily beats this GT240 across the board. I'd say it's worth more than the extra $10.

Moreover, I think it's a shame this is so far the only review I've found comparing the GT240 to the HD4770. The above review pits it against the HD5750 and HD5770, which are in a completely different league, being DX11 hardware.

Lots and lots of tests and bechmarks. Looking good.

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Oh ... never midn. Yowch.

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,658913/Stalker-Clear-Sky-Exclusive-DX9-vs-DX10-screenshots/News/

A small handful of new games, most notably Left4Dead, show non-trivial performance improvement on quad cores, even at lower clock speeds.

This is a new development, and I wouldn't put a quad in a "budget" gaming box just to improve performance in a very small handful of new games, but all signs point to future games preferring quads.