yeah i would wait for better drives that way you save yourself the embarrassment of HL2 dropping to 9 fps when you turn AA and AF on lol. But it truly beats the 8 series for the cost, it comes up close on the GTX but costs $200 less. That seems like a no brainier to me. I need a better psu though, i only have a 400watt but i wouldn't pay $400 for a video card anyways, im going to wait for it to come down in cost or maybe just snag me one of the midrange cards. My 7900GS is getting a tad long in the tooth anyways.