Now, as a caveat, there is one area where I think splurging a bit is worth it for gamers, and where I plan on dropping some benjamins when I build my next computer: solid-state drives. On load-heavy games (like FPSes or MMOs), it's seriously like the invention of the warp drive. Load times disappear when you play from an SSD, so it can definitely be worth it to load up a nice big SSD (or even put multiple drives in or RAID-0 them together) to play your most load-intensive games from. Especially with Intel's next-gen drives coming out (which push the write-limits into "this will last as long as a comparable physical drive" territory) there's really no downside to them, aside from the price.
So those are confirmed prices, excellent. Definitely making the right choice on waiting for the 2x00s then. Is there a confirmed price/date for the G3 SSDs yet or are those still a nebulous "Q2 2011" deal? (I tried looking for this stuff, but for some reason you guys seem to know stuff the rest of the Internet doesn't, partially because you follow the Chinese Bothans I suspect :V )
I do hope the 560 is under $300, though. I was hoping that'd be more a refresh of the 460 the way the 6850/70s were price refreshes for their respective predecessors in the 5 line. I'd really like to pop an Nvidia in the rig I'll be building soon (partially since it'll serve as another testbed rig), but if the 560 is up near $300 I might just have to go with a 460 and save a benjamin (for diverting into pimpin' SSDs of course :V )
