ScottALot

ill refer to something ive said before, brand loyalty means nothing. In fact, in the near future intel's coming chipsets may not do SLI or Crossfire whatsoever due to intel's larrabee, and nvidia no longer has rights to make chipsets for intel motherboards.

Doubtful, until maybe half a year to a year after release.

Oh yeah and forgot to add, the majority of games do NOT support physx atm, only a handful of titles do.

The GTS250 onboard it is only for physx, it isnt actually SLI. If not a 5850, hit up the 4890, those things land roughly in the middle ground of the 275 and 285 and would be cheap to add another card down the road.

No games need Physx so much as to have a dedicated gpu for physx. Its not worth the premium price, plus a 4890 essentially murders the GTX275 for the price.

275 co-op is a gimmick, get a 4890 or wait for 5850 to come back in stock.

XFX 5850 in stock:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-442-_-Product

I took the front apart and things like that where there was screws but I didn't derivit anything.

right now nobody has 5870's....give it a few weeks or a month

Of those id get a HIS, but personally sapphire and XFX are what i prefer for ati cards.