cq842000:  Thanks for posting that, as always we have to wait.  Meanwhile AMD is calling out Nvidias claim of fastest video card , should be interesting to see how that turns out.  No doubt the 6890 vrs. 590 gives the raw hp win to AMD but really, who cares?  It's this sort of Real World performance issues that matters to the average user, not results from synthetic benchmarks.  It upsets me to say this since just like the PC vrs. Mac or Ford vrs. Chev. wars, I've always been an ATI guy but I'm getting tired of this.