Yo! Quick question bout Ultra mode and my current hardware.

[Ankhani]

From Posi:

After demoing the Ultra-mode at HeroCon, one of the most frequently
asked questions we have been receiving is “what are the video cards you
recommend to get the most out of Ultra-mode?” With the holiday season
coming up, we asked the programmers in charge of implementing the
features of Ultra-mode what they would recommend. We would like to
forward this information on to you so you can better work on your
holiday shopping lists.

If you are looking to spend under US$100, then an NVidia 9800 GT is your
best bet. For AMD (ATI/Radeon), we don’t have enough of these cards at
this price point to get you good data. This would be the minimum card
for enabling all the features, only at reduced quality settings.

If you are looking to spend between $100 and $200, the Radeon HD 4890
and GeForce GTX 260 will do you well. We don’t have numbers from the
Radeon 57xx series yet to verify if that is better or worse though. This
would end up somewhere in the middle of Ultra-mode quality.

Finally if you are going to spend over $200, the GeForce GTX 285 is an
excellent choice. We don’t have numbers from the Radeon 58xx series yet.
This would be able to run Ultra-mode with the quality maxed out (except
we have no data on Anti-aliasing, so caveat emptor when it comes
to that specific feature).

Note: This is based on our current internal testing and might change
by the time Going Rogue is released. Also, a video card is not the ONLY
thing you should take into consideration. Your PC having a decent
processor and memory will also enhance your performance. As we continue
to test and get more information available we will update you. I hope
this helps, and happy holidays!

UPDATE 2-10-2010: Spoke with our engineer today, and he said we were
seeing excellent performance from the Radeon 5770 card, which is a
mid-range card. We have not tested the 5870, but expect the performance
on that card to be one of the fastest for Ultra mode. Also noteworthy is
that Ultra Mode does not currently support SLI configured cards. We’re
working with NVidia and ATI about this, but you all can speed up the
process by contacting NVidia and ATI about updating things on their end
to get it to work.

With a 32-bit OS (such as yours), the ultimate-absolute-no-two-ways-about-it-maximum RAM you can have is 4GB, just so you know. You simply can not use any more than that with out upgrading your OS to a 64-bit. This, however, is System RAM; which may (or may not, I'm not sure) be distinct from on-board-graphics RAM.
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