The 8800GT series of cards just tears through games, both the DX9 and 10 varieties and will satisfy any hard core gamers needs. Another thing about NVIDIA is that they work much harder in the gaming industry to get developers to work hand in hand with them on their latest technological advancements. This shows as almost every game I play comes up with the NVIDIA logo saying NVIDIA how it's meant to be played. Where TF is ATI in this aspect of a games development? Who knows as I have not seen an ATI logo on a game in almost a year and that is weird. All games of every genre will be torn to shreds by the XXX Big Bad Dog 8800GT, it eats FPS, it chomps up RPG and RTS and will devour strategy games like a rabid mutant mutt! Crysis plays without any problems and I know this is major concern for many of you, so rest assured the 8800GT has no problems here.