   You see that was the last time NVIDIA released a serious
high-end GPU. In between we've had the slightly up-clocked 8800
Ultra and a whole host of sometimes worthy, sometimes irrelevant
revisions to confuse and bloat the marketplace.  A new
generation    What of the 9800GTX though? Again, a card that
gave little more than the 8800GTX more than a year previous,
making it one of those irrelevances we were talking about. In
fact, the excellent 8800GT apart, we could have quite happily
done without nearly every GeForce release since the Ultra.  High
res gaming  With all these big and beautiful numbers we should
be hitting never before seen heights of graphical glory, right?
You can guess where I'm going with that lead in can't you... At
the standard desktop resolutions of 1680x1050 and 1920x1200
there really isn't a noticeable difference between the new
200-series cards and the 9800GX2.     The extra memory and
boosted memory interface though allow the GTX280 in particular
to shine at fat-panel resolution. In