let the hating begin

this is mostly for the gamers out there that read this pile of trash, but i thought i'd let you all know that i just picked up the GeForce 6800 OC 128 MB. the OC stands for overclocked which for you non-technical people out there means they crank the card's abilities up more so than it's normally meant to be which does two things - it puts out a superior video product and produces ungodly amounts of heat. two processors and two fans plus a full copy of Far Cry and demos of Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, Silent Storm and Painkiller. Yeah Justin, i'll finally have some painkiller on the box. But the real test was HL2. I fired that sucker up in 3 different play modes: Multiplayer, Counter-Strike and the single player game. I maxed out the settings on all video and set the resolution at 1280x1024 and was still getting over 60 FPS. I can't honestly say i've seen anything this beautiful since i caught my aunt bertha naked back when i was 15. I plan on installing Far Cry again and giving that a go and i'll probably give Doom 3 another run just to see how it functions. I believe Doom was actually built around the GeForce technology, so it'll run silky smooth with this card. Now comes the other reason why you guys will loathe me. I only paid $250 for the card. Granted, this isn't the GT which may add a couple more frames, but for a ghastly hundred bucks more which is just silly. my $500 video card buying days are over. Best Buy has the card (made by BFG - which comes with a lifetime warranty) for $300, but i brought in a printout of Outpost's listing for $250 and they matched the price. today is definitely my lucky day.