Oh, wow! Sounds like the companies that owned the market are suffering now! I guess I could wait to get the 5870 so that prices drop (because of high demand) and then maybe when the 5890 (or whatever they gonna call it) and/or 5970 (i think I got that one right) come out, the price will drop a tad, and I can go CrossFireX

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.

*pounds fists*

I don't want to go ATI... I want my current PC to be ATI so it can be a DRAGON PC and my i7 build to be nVidia.

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

Sigh... maybe I should wait for 300 series, then prices will drop and maybe 285 could be possible?

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.

1. Framerate increase is pretty good for the research I've done.
2. I don't like the idea of a single-5870, because I want to upgrade by adding another GPU, and that'd be freakin' expensive if I had a 5870.

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.

How is it a gimmick? Seems legitimate.