yes it is indeed banik, come to think of it, do we really need the processing power, there are no games out there to really take advantage of the hardware thats coming out, barring crysis for some reason GPU manuf havent been able to conquer.
IMHO for monitors till 22' the 8800GT/4850/9800GTX+ will suffice and for monitors above that till 30' the 4870/GTX260/GTX280/ 4870x2, quite frankly the latter two are an overkill, but again I wouldnt mind having either!
So let the wars continue, but also it would be nice if we got the game manuf to bring out games to make the most of the hardware.