directX10 and direct3d10 info...

[fish]

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those who are planning to buy new gpus... think again... you might want to wait a little more... check this out...
http://www.gamespot.com/features/614...toplay=6146095

[tolstoi]

DirectX 10 will increase game performance by as much as six to eight times. Much of that will be accomplished with smarter resource management, improving API and driver efficiencies, and moving more work from the CPU to the GPU. "The entire API and pipeline have been redesigned from the ground-up to maximize performance, and minimize CPU and bandwidth overhead," according to Microsoft. Furthermore, "The idea behind D3D10 is to maximize what the GPU can do without CPU interaction, and when the CPU is needed it’s a fast, streamlined, pipeline-able operation." Giving the GPU more efficient ways to write and access data will reduce CPU overhead costs by keeping more of the work on the video card.

[king_coy]

Actually, what I think is that, you'll be able to play DX10 games on your Graphic Card, but only on DX9, you won't able to get or download DX10 on WindowsXP 32/64. Only Unified Shader Architecture Graphic Cards will able to run DX10 games, and for that you'd need Windows Vista also.

Well, that's just speculation from me at the moment, I am not too sure, but I've read people saying that SM4/DX10 would require Windows Vista (DX10 is a part of Vista) and Unified Shader Architecture Graphic Cards for operation, but I could be wrong.

And also, this is all good news in both ways. when dx10 cards is in the market, prices of high-end agp cards will drop, and PCIe will also do, just slightly.