Thanks Mr.Ventilator.

Not so much card price range issue, more interested in a benchmark card that would be a safe bet for feature support for the future... From what I see the card manufacturers are as usual working in different directions. Would you say the radeon is a good middle ground card then?

In the effects demo, I only get the sky box, and briefly one ball has a wrapped shader, it then errors saying unsupoorted and the balls go black. I would expect some kind of fall back method which I guess just isn't included at the moment. I think you understand what Im getting at. It would be pointless to develop some fantastic shader if it was only supported on one or two video cards.....

BTW: I downloaded the latest drivers from Nvidia, which promise better shader support and........thats right no different. lol.