I agree Larry, that there is far too much "Marketing" going on at the moment, with the primary objective of confusing the end user with terms like "Ultra" "XT" "PRO" "SE" etc, which is totally uninformative to new users within this area.
Sadly, there is a 5200, and a 5200 Ultra (as is the case with all of the FX series), with the Ultra providing substantial speed benefits. In the case of the 5200, the standard variant has a 250MHz core and 400MHz memory, where as the Ultra variant has a 325MHz core and 650MHz memory. The Ultra therefore has superior memory bandwidth (thus will handle higher resolutions much better), and around a 23% faster core speed.
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I guess I could settle for the 5700 which I am told compares to the Radeon's top of the line...
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Sadly Larry, whoever told you this has certainly been misinformed. The 5700 series are Nvidia's best middle of the range cards, performing better than the 9600/FX5600 series, but can in no way match the 9800 PRO/XT cards (currently, top of the ATI line).
ATI's game incompatibility's are however, a thing of the past, since the "Catalyst" driver suits are now very stable.
That NWN poll on which 3D Accelerators people use is a good idea SpiritWarrior. Would be good to find out what most people are running here at IW.