nVidia 5xx : best time to buy?

[ajones]

So what do you reckon....

I'm not interested in forking out 300+ on a graphics card, which means that the top end AMD 7xxx and probably the nVidia 6xx are out of the equation. But what about an nVidia 570 at £215 ?

Buy now or regret later?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The GTX680 is being released next week,but I am uncertain whether it will cause GTX570 cards to drop in price further,unless a GTX670 is launched at around £300 to £350.

[ajones]

This is what I'm thinking... Green have knocked a chunk off their cards already, presumably to clear old stock before the 600s come through. Whilst they'll undoutably be bigger/badder blah blah, I don't need all that extra performance. Well aware of the old adage of "there'll always be something better" and am thinking that the 570 today looks like pretty good value...

[scaryjim]

Get a GTX560Ti 448 for ~ £200, practically the same card as a GTX570 (just one CU/32shaders less, you can make up for that with a very mild overclock).

[kalniel]

and am thinking that the 570 today looks like pretty good value...

The 570 has only dropped back to the level it used to be - for the second half of last year it was around £230. This suggests there's room to drop the price as and when nVidia release a replacement, which they don't seem to be in a hurry to do.

[vrykyl]

Wait it out and buy up a cheap second hand gtx580 when people change over to the 'latest and greatest'?