yeah, thats what i was waiting for *grin*

it won't be long now... muhhahhaa

ill wait about 6 - 8 months untill their reasonably priced and theres actually a point to owning one

I i just bought a Sapphire Toxic HD 4890... Still happy with the performance though.

thats a good card you would need anyhting for a while, there wont even be dx11 games out there for months so buying one of these at the release price is really a waste of money

I must agree with blindartist once more. Sure for us tech crazy ppl no dx11 games is no dealbreaker, but for those more careful its a total waste of time & money to buy the new ati cards until atleast 6-7 months later. I think the first game with DX11 effects will be Dirt2 from codemasters, if not anything else is even before that.

i sell my pc right now... But i get a verry cheap one for the next few months, so i dont care about initial price only need the pc for web till februar, i guess (so i sell now, to get a few bucks more than in feb....) afaik BF:BC2 with frostbite engine is DX11, some titles this year are already DX11 READY. DX10 cards can play dx11 games too, just miss the 11 features...

Your right but it's sort of like an eternal circle.....if you wait 6-8 months for the prices to come down then there will be something else just around the corner and you'll be thinking should I wait for that and you do and the price is high so you wait another 6-8 months.............

thing is a high end video card should get you through atleast 2 years without a sweat, my x1950 just really became not enough this year, a 4870 or 90 should get you through till 2011 no problem so why spend the extra bucks on a card that you wont really notice any difference in performence visually? anything over about 25fps you wont see much difference in, television is only 24fps, and there wont be dx11 games for quite a while.

I dunno i guess to thoes that always need to have the best card out there and have the disposable income to blow on it thats cool but for the rest of us it just doesnt make snese

I wish I was in that catagory of having too much disposable income but sadley no. Currently I've got an ATi 3870X2, I've had it for about 18 months, it's okay mostly unless you put any antialiasing on which just brings it to it's knees.

I've promised myself an upgrade and have been eyeing up the 4870/4890 but I'm just going to wait and see what happens when the directx11 cards come out....I certainly won't be rushing to buy the first one that ATi releases as I understand that the 5000 series is just an evolution of the 4000 series, I want to wait and see what Nvidias gt300 brings as that is a whole new architecture and also contrary to the opinions of many I want to see what larrabee brings. (Also hoping it won't be much longer before we see some muti gpu cards using lucidlogix hydra chip)

Even though the release of the directx11 cards will no doubt bring the price of the 4870/4890 down and there will be no games for directx 11 for a while I still want to get a directx 11 one, correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't directx11 also bring additional compute features that may be used in gpgpu type applications both within and outside of games?

hopefully ati doesn't cheap out when implementing the VRM.