If you intend to buy a top-of-the-line video card now, know that the Microsoft is planning to DirectX 11, Pixel Shader 5.0 already for 2009. The announcement should take place in two weeks, more precisely on July 22 or 23. O DirectX 11, as far as we know, it will come with multi task rendering and such a Tessellation/Displacement, a kind of conversion of geometric structures. Route Fudzilla.