alright, well i thinkn i have made up my mind. even though i have both the athlon II x4 630 and q6600, as well as the 4890 and gtx260, since i already have a nice gigabyte board running the q6600, and since the athlon II x4 will be comparable at 3.4-3.6 to the current 3.2Ghz q6600 i will save my money and continue to use the rig in my sig until it can no longer play games at max settings or until the end od summer or the year, when then i will invest in a new platform from either amd or intel. i know its hard to understand what i meant when i said that the gtx 260 runs smoother than the 4890. i know that any benchmark out there will show higher results for the 4890, but in my experiance with the 2 cards in real time playing, the 260 just seems superior with the games that i play. for example, guitar hero 3, with the 4890, it stutters alot, and with the 260, its smooth as butter, even though they both are consistantly pulling 60fps according to fraps. anyways, thanks for all the advice. and if anyone is intrested in buying the 4890 or Athlon II x 4 630 then feel free to let me know, since i dont use them at all and both are in pristine condition with less than 12 hours af run time on them, ive also got an Athlon II x2 235 and 240 (2.7 and 2.8Ghz) am3 cpu's, an nvidia 8600 gt 256mb pci-e card, and a few hard drives (ide and sata) ranging from 80 gigs to 750 gigs and i have a i3 m330 cpu and a socket 775 celeron d 3.2Ghz cpu, i thonk thats about it...thanks again