I'm finding it hard to believe that someone would spend $654 on a GTX 280 Or even more money on two or three of them.

I am doing this survey just to count how many of you would shell out that kind of cash.

No way! I'd rather get 4 4870!!!

I agree with you. So give me that vote of "no" please.

if good 4870 or x2

None whatsoever.
I'm quite satisfied with my 8800GT, and probably will be for a long while.

Zero!

It's ATi for me on my next car purchase. I am seriously debating getting the 4850, only because I don't know how much longer I can hold out for the 4870.

I'm having serious doubts that many people AT ALL will be buying GTX 280s once the HD 4870 and 4870X2 come out. The probability of the 4870, thanks to having gratuitously higher memory bandwidth courtesy of GDDR5, should be quite competitive performance-wise to the GTX 260, very likely beating it; on paper it should beat it, and performance results of the 4850 imply that it does, unless there's something wrong in the RV770 that means that it would not gain much from having a lot more memory bandwidth after ALREADY seeing a tremendous boost in shader and texturing power.

And with the $280US 4870 duking it at least within range of the GTX 260, $500US for a 4870X2 would pose a real monster of an opponent for the GTX 280; there's pretty much close to zero odds that it wouldn't best the 280, and by a margin that would definitely be visible... And hence be large enough to show across the board.

Of course, had I already a G92-based card, I'd probably be fine with it now. But as it stands, my X800XT's starting to really show some rusty spots on it, so upgrades are definitely on my mind.

Fanboyism exists!

This coming from a guy who SLI'ed 8600GT's. Maybe you can Quad SLI 8300GT's next.

I suppose I don't know what to say against that, except that now we'll get a chance to see just how many strong fans with deep pockets nVidia has...

And I suppose now's also a good time for nVidia to be thankful that the 4850 didn't strike QUITE as deeply as it could; the 9800GTX+ could still hold them a niche in the spot, and the 9800GTX wasn't entirely deposed, either.

9800GTX+? well, little performance increase over the 9800GTX, yet higher power consumption and higher temps, it won't sell good in my opinion.

I've had ATI cards before my 8600 GT's. And I'm going back to ATI for my next build. I just can't understand why anyone would spend that kind of money on 1 GPU when they can get similar performance for half the price.

I just wanted to try the Nvidia and see what all the hype was about . But I prefer to get similar performance for a cheaper price aka.. ATI.

My next build will be a Spider Platform (2x HD 4870's in Crossfire + MSI K9A2 Platinum + 9850 Black Edition).

Nice build.

Thanks romulus47p lus1

Still, if it manages to fit both "more powerful than a 4850," and "cheaper than a 4870," then it'll have a spot. Maybe a very, very tiny spot... And of course, give a superior option to the GTX 260 for those with SLi motherboards.