Okay this is only my personal opinion, but I always use nVidia cards. I have never even tried ATI and I don't feel a need to since my nVidia cards have always a) been cheap b)could play the newest games for a while with the best settings c) not a single broken card. But ofcourse it's ur choise, if u want to get the x800 then get it. It is a good card, though one of my friend had it and it overheated all the time (just a manufacturing mistake) so he had to sent it back. And I know that the overheating problem has happened to many other ppl, but ofcourse there are thousands of ppl who use the x800 daily without any problem.