if nVidia is so defacto a card to use with linux and you are so big on linux why did you bother with the ATI card?

I hate Vista too and disabled 90% of the "features" like the windows firewall, windows defender and UAC. But I have no complaints about my ATI 4870 card, it seems to run better than my nVidia 8800GT that I have on my other PC. ( it is supposed to be a faster newer card so it's to be expected ) I don't really have any pros or cons for either video card. They both seem to work equally well on Vista x64. I did have to do the adjustment to the fan control on the ATI and set the fan speed to 35% so it runs at a nice 50C idle and 55C running two copies of WoW. Don't knock the card for your choice of operating system.