"Dear Santa...."

I think you are really waving in the darkness here man. Doom 3 have been optimized for nvidia core's all along, ever since the beta NV20 boards. Carmack is a genious when it comes to nifty code, and he have seriously used the programability of the later Nvidia card. There is no wonder why Doom 3 runs quicker on NVidia boards, and thats not becouse ATI's screwup. Doom 3 is using the same story as Doom 1 did, but this time they use 2003 technology and actually fit the storyline into the gameplay. It IS the same game, its only gameplay thats different. Unreal Tournament really cant be compared becouse it is multiplayer only, and have no singleplayer mode to compare with. And it is true that its always Raven that made the 'games' out of ID Software's engines. This time it seems like ID actually built a story driven game thou. Best Regards JemyM

go check the NON doom 3 benchmarks.. NV35 gets stomped in some of them.. overall a small improvement