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The low-end part was right, but then again upgrading to just about any card >$100 from a low-end is common sense. Moving on, say you do have a 8800GT or a HD3870, the HD4850 happens to be a rather large upgrade to either card for a still reasonable price. Of course given your first uninformed opinion piece on the HD4850, the exclusion wasn't surprising. Theres also another factor you neglected to mention the relative timeframe of seperate purchases. If you said "if you recently purchased an 8800GT or HD3870" then you would have a point. Moving on again, same story with the bottom portion of the article, but you were correct to leave out the HD4850 this time around. However, the HD4870 has clearly shown itself to outpace both the 8800GTX and 9800GTX, not so much the 9800GX2, but if you have the 9800GX2 as most reviewers have implied/said (Anandtech, HardOCP, bit-tech, etc.) even the upgrade to the GTX280 is a rather unnecessary expenditure. I think you need to start rounding up all the reviews on these cards for the past month or so before posting things like this, the average enthusiast/tech saavy individual generally ignores ZDNet already, you're not helping.
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