Cool, thought it was about then. Now the big question is can Nvidia get its current gen out by the time ATI gets the next iteration out? lol 

Is there any news on how far into the future this might be?

No thanks. I don't want to blow 3250 USD on a motherboard, CPU, and GPU. I could have about five or six excellent complete gaming PCs for the same price.

Down to $3000 now, thinking of changing your mind yet

Those clocks are really high, would be interesting to see the power draw on the consumer card with similar clocks and whether it is even possible to put a dual card out...

Didn't check those websites but most Universities have an arrangement with Microsoft via their computer science departments allowing students free access to WIndows 7, it might be worth checking up on that

Should have gone with AMD, they even have a platform called dragon

The format of your link is a bit off. here is the google translation though to save some people the time
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.notebookjournal.de%2Ftests%2Fnotebook-review-deviltech-fire-dtx-nkmo-1073&sl=de&tl=en

Even if it isn't a scam I think some1 is going to be getting a call from DAAMIT soon

lol, awesome photo

That scared wave photo is enough to make me want to get into it lol

Is it a blue screen straight away? I am not familiar with that card but a friend had one (or a similar one) where you couldn't have it at a specific temperature, you had to rush it past it otherwise it would clog the entire system up with interupts but it was only at a specific temp, once past it was fine

Google translation from turkish:
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.donanimhaber.com%2FATi_Radeon_HD_5890_iddialari_bir_kez_daha_gundemde-16991.htm&sl=tr&tl=en

Might explain some of the restrictions on the 5870s if they are moving the focus to the 5890. The cooler looks very similar to the one on the 5970 though.

well you certainly are paying a premium for these things at the moment

Wow, we seem to be over supplied with them now, when I last checked there was only one retailer with them in stock lol

They are hiring a few so maybe it is going ahead...