> I'll hope the X850XT PE 512MB does find the retail market -- but it has
been
> 5 months since it was shown to the world, so I assume it may just be
> vaporware. In the future I plan to run 1990 x 1200, but not until I can
> make 1600 x 1200 smooth -- it really is a shame nVidia can't get their SLI
> setup to work with FS2004 -- two 6800 Ultra OC 512MB cards would be nice
> providing 1GB of video memory. I have thought about switching to a single
> 6800 Ultra OC 512MB as those are currently available.

You could try the 3DLabs Realizm 800. It has 640MB of 512-bit memory.
Dual-VPU. AFAIK, standard VC's only have 256-bit VRAM - double bandwidth. A
separate geometry processor. Texture sizes up to 4000x4000. However - it
seems to cost a lot and probably takes up a lot of case-space. Go here for
more info: http://content.3dlabs.com/Datasheets/realizm800.pdf. It's pretty
impressive.

jkb