[newtekie1]

I think nVidia should have raised the defualt clocks on the 260 GTX a little bit. They could easily make the 260 GTX outperform the HD4870 out of the box and it wouldn't cost them anything. They could then sell it at the same $299 price point.

They also need to release some lower end cards based on the GT200 cores, with some more pipelines disabled and lower memory busses. To help make a little money off the GT200's poor yields. So the cores that aren't perfect don't go completely to waste. A 240 GTX with 144 Shaders and a 384Bit memory bus. Perhaps redesign the PCB a little to make it cheaper and eliminated the unused parts of the memory bus. Make a card that is a little cheaper to produce, and one that is uses cores that essentially cost nVidia nothing since they were just going to be thrown away anyway.