It has been six months and one week since NVIDIA launched their highly acclaimed 8-series of DirectX 10 video cards. ATI is more than a little late, but then again, why rush? Yes, many people have been rewarded for jumping on NVIDIA's graphics, but with Vista's slow adoption and a complete void where DirectX 10 games should be, there's been little to gain besides frame rates... NVIDIA has gained a lot of ground over the past six months, and has successfully hard-launched a whole set of mid-range cards and two flagships--ground broken by ATI. ATI and Microsoft jointly developed Xenos, unified shaders and all, so if ATI doesn't show up NVIDIA it will be fairly shaming.