I guess this kinda puts them back in the game. 
Newegg hasn’t reflected the updated prices as of this post. 
The 280 was already for 499 on Newegg since the past few days.
MSI and PALIT GTX280-s, yeah. Just noticed. In any case, I find the $299 GTX260 more interesting. Lower prices are always a good thing! 
All thanks to AMD
irrespective of prices drop .
this will put NVIDIA back in game…or it will be NVIDIA’S GAME:rofl:
ATI prices /performance ratio is still lower…
XFX GTX260 for $299 comes with “Lifetime” Warranty
Isn’t the 4870 at 299$ still better than GTX260
And the HD4870 at the same price blows it out of the picture; 
The ones who’d invest in a nV setup now’d either do so cos:
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They’re big-time nV fanbois;
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They’d invested in a 750i/780i/790i board expecting prices of cards to go down anytime so that they can buy a 2nd one and do SLI; they could’ve been broke so they dont want to lose cash selling this setup;
^^That’s me (point 2). Still hoping for further price drops before ditching my 9800GTX. Right now on XP64, the 9800GTX is good enough for Crysis@high settings, so I guess I can wait a little more
lol me too waiting for same , tell me if u plan to sell 9800gtx 
At the same price point they are even… Remember 260 carries more memory which wont be a bottleneck at higher resolutions (1900+) and it overclocks well…
I ain’t a nvfanboy but i always look at things more practically… ATi can lower prices(Infact they have already started… Spotted a few 4870’s below $299) to beat the competition otherwise nVidia with its board partners (Evga, BFG & XFX) with thier no questions asked lifetime warrenty will win the competition… Remember Nvidia’s 260 is just 5%-10% slower then the 4870 and comes with a better cooler and runs almost silently in the system and also has more RAM for bigger resolutions…
update the damn sig
1+ for that
if nvidia drops price of GTX 260 around 250 then it will pawn 4870 
I’d say the 4870 pwns the GTX260 except for games which favour nV cards like Crysis, WiC etc; Lol, even CF doesn’t apparently scale well with these beasts; A newer Cat driver will fix that;
And who cares abt temps when cheap aftermarket coolers’re around dude? Get the AC Accelero S1 for 1.4k; slap fans as u like; 80mm, 92mm or 120mm;
Bring down the temps, get some better OC headroom, use the ATI AMD GPU OC tool and u’re set to go; soft-mod it and bump up the volts for added stability and to avoid crashes;
And what bottlenecks’re u referring to??? 
-2 for that; evil2:
Yeah yeah, dream on;
even though the selfish AMD distris wont reduce their prices in india, I hope the Nvidia Distris do
damn this sucks 
really GTX cards are pawned at that price point , if nvidia doesnt drop prices of GTX then i will wait to get 4870x2 until its released evil2:
Akshay Enterprises(local XFX distry) really provides us with cool prices.
Tirupati Ent(distri for radeon brands) kinda tend to rip us off and so does Rashi.
atleast the price-cuts giv us a reason to stick to NV , and i’v been eyin the 750i FTW for quite sometime now
^^^Try persuading roboghost to sell his motherboard and get it at a cheaper price; evil2:
Seems like his fanboism finally goes for a to$$!!
perhaps , but i wont sell the board for cheap , i can still buy a 4870x2 so no need for intel mobo and my mobo overclocks very good . otherwise i will just buy 2 9800GTX+ which is good enough .
Memory buffer, some newer games started to use more than 800MB video RAM @ 1920 or above eg. GRID.
Thats why people waiting for 4870 1GB and 4870X2 2GB.