My friend actually told me this last night, and I just didn't understand what Nvidia was doing. ATI won't even have to lower their prices to get people to buy their cards, it just makes more sense.

Anyways, I hopped on the ATI wagon after the Nvidia 8600m gt fiasco. That really irritated me, and now my sister's boyfriend is having the same problems I did. Oh well.

I have a 5770, and it doesn't draw too much power, and it idles at 32c which I like.

Like I said, NVIDIA right now is just like ATI was when they released 3xxx series; new architecture testing phase.
Personally I'd wait for their 2nd gen. Fermi, assuming they'd "get it".

Right now I'm pretty much also content with a 5770.

Yes these cards will be so great they can make you fried eggs and toast!

Like this?

LOL. thats funny.

makes me want an omelette.

a 5970 is litteraly cheaper than a GTX480
performence wise the GTX480 isn't even near so not a hard choice

The cheaper one is 5870.
A 5970 is still around $200 more than a GTX480 if its MSRP is really around $500, unless there's a rebate or specials going on for the 5970.

But yeah, performance-wise a GTX480 is close to a 5870, but consumes more power and produce more heat.

in the netherlands at least, the cheapest 5970's start at €523 and the cheapest GTX480's at €545 so here it really is cheaper

i hope the sapphire 4GB 5970 @ 850/1200 clocks with 3 80mm fans gets released soon.. so much overclock potential

I don't have that kind of money, but I am a fan of Sapphire, I have a 5770 from them. Overclocks well but I have an interesting little problem. I can set it to 900/1350 and play battlefield bad company 2 for hours with no problem, but then I load up team fortress 2 and I have graphical glitches until I set it back to 890/1280. Dunno why this is, any ideas?