" I spent my hard earned money on a card that became obsolete before it can even do what it was meant to do."

Join the club dude, this is always the case. A card comes be it ATI OR nVidia product, and the games meant for these cards come about 1 to 2 years AFTER the card arrives. But as well, so do 3 more vid cards from each manufacturer.

"I guess the perception of "future" means different things to different pple but all those reviews of the NV35 being "future proof" are pure bullshit,unless those same reviewers upgrade whenever a new chipset comes out and dump their "old" cards in the trashcan."

The term "Future Proof" is and has always been nothing more than pure Bullshit. Inevitably we see this term in all nVidias PR for their cards in previews since way back in the Geforce 256 bygone days. I have owned a 256, Geforce ti500, and a ti4600, and lastly my 5900 ultra. So much for future prrof eh?

And yeah these (asshole) reviewers usually get their cards for free. Take 3DGPU, they freaking raved about the 5900s, and then other not so thrilling info arrives about the 5900s, and now the 5900 is no longer the saving grace for nVidia, it is again as bad a whipping boy as the 5800, even worse.

I remember reading from Carmack or yadda yadda yadda that either the 5900 or the 9800 is the cards to own to run the new games. WTF did this change? At what point in the developer updates did nVidia just all of a sudden blow so hard in their oppinion?

Buying a new card is no biggy for me, I have the disposable income set aside for all my hobbies. But, this political crap over which card is best to run whatever games, it is killing my interest in gaming as a hobby.

Not only is the fact that 1 or 2 new games a year is all I have to look forward to because of the dev time required for new games... but gamers cannot trust the card manufacturers anymore to deliver a trustworthy product. Now enter the new card in either manufacturers line every 6 months or so. At a time when gaming seems to be really entering into a new evolution for gamers, the reviewers, and card developers are systematically screwing the gamers left right and center IMHO.