If the timeframe is right that will be almost a year with no high-end refresh and no the 8800 Ultra doesn't count. Is there going to be a new highend for Q4 or not? The news blurb hints that's just rumor atm.

Honestly I think that's a good thing in some ways, less of a moving target for developers and products that maintain value longer, in both dollars and relative performance. 6 month release cycles are just too short for my tastes, maybe NV has seen that from their product development end and is slowing things down a bit.

If the GeForce 9 series stays on track for Q4 2007, this means that they'll be releasing this card just as they release the GeForce 9800 (or such)? If so, the 8800 GTS may already drop to the kind of price range that we're looking at.

Knowing Nvidia, they will price this thing at $249, it will perform significantly worse than the 8800GTS 320mb, and as a result they will sell about five of them.

by the time it's November this card should be in the same price bracket as the 8600gts and gts will go down in price.

This is good news though. Finally affordable with 256bit memory bus midrange card that can kick up a notch.

Anybody else notice the similarities between the Intel-v-AMD and Nvidia-v-ATI product releases? AMD announces a new chip and *stomp* Intel releases something a little better, ATI announces a new product and *stomp* Nvidia announces something a little better.

I think DAAMIT is scwewed.

I will buy a card in this area. Please deliver.

Excellent: This is exactly the card I want. Enough performance at a reasonable price, with low power, hopefully it has the video decode engine as well.