Originally posted by: Jassi
I've seen many reviews but the DX10 aspect of the card + Dual DVI + the latest news of HDTV processing being handled by the GPU might make it worth it for some people.
To be honest though, I'm not really sure how many people with a PCI-E slot would really have a CPU that couldn't pick up the slack. And anybody with a Core 2 would have more than enough power to do HDTV with any video card.
So even for an HTPC I don't feel like this is a big must have anymore. Even I can decode 720P h.264 decently on my P4 (thanks to CoreAVC, actually kind of funny because now H.264 runs better than Xvid at 720p on my machine).
If this GTS was this price I'd probaby get it anyway just because I don't need super awesome gaming horsepower anyway, but since the ATI cards seem to be faster than this thing (and cheaper in the case of the 1950gt) it doesn't really make a lot of sense to run to CC.
And DX10 support is nice I guess, except if it doesn't really have enough horsepower to run the DX10 games anyway it's a pretty moot point.