ACTUALLY if u read teh most recent benchmarks, The geforce outperforms the radeon in things where all teh high end feeatures anisotropic filtering, trilinear, full antialiasing, etc. but with ALL of those features OFF (WHY WOULD ANYBODY DO THAT???) the radeon blew the geforce away. regardless, they are withing only a few fps of each otehr in almsot every category, and additional cooling etc, can easily solve that. ITs also well known that wehen nvidia releases new drivers, rediculously large performance increases come from driver upgrades alone, several % ussually, and the radeon can hardly match that by drivers. The reality is they are just very very similar, with teh exception of teh radeon using ddr2 memory at 10 mhz faster clock speed, which is basically a negligible difference. Now that teh card shipped, alienware can finally send me my new damn system i ordered....