Nvidia 270, 290 and GX2 roll out in November

[Sly Fox]

I'll be waiting it out for a 40nm Nvidia offering... GTX 380 maybe?

Problem right now is that even an 8800 GT can max out MOST games at 1680/1050 right now, and only really Crysis and poorly optimized newer games (IE STALKER Clear Sky) won't max out smoothly.

And the ultimate irony? Even on the next setup up (280 and kinda 4870X2) Crysis/STALKER still aren't truly "maxable" smoothly. Barring certain cases of course, I realize things aren't THAT simple.
Then you can get into SLI/CF setups and argue that point... But I'd say that the hassle/inconsistency/microstutter kinda hurts that option, makes it unviable at this point for me at least.

That's my view on it anyways.