Id Software co-founder and the programmer behind the forthcoming game Doom III John Carmack recently updated his .plan files with his musings on the latest graphics hardware from rivals ATI Technologies Inc. and Nvidia Corp. Carmack doesn’t come out solidly in favor of either technology, but he weighs the pros and cons of each.
It seems to me that you’d be well off going with either high end card, though I’m not personally going to pay $400 for one. When I get a GeForce FX Lite or equivalent for under $200, I’ll buy one.