Earlier this week, I crossed my fingers and hit the purchase button on an ATI 5850. I must say, installation could not have been easier, and the results have been spectacular.
I've got an old 1.8 GHz C2D 6300 with two gigs of ram, and an ancient NVidia 7800 GTX driving a 24" monitor. Games were getting slow.
Adding this card did exactly what I wanted to do. I can run all my games at native (1920 x 1200) resolution with maxed out detail settings.
For my next trick, I'll try grouping my monitors to see what that's like (3520 x 1200). Stay tuned.
