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I still get excited about new hardware but it kinda sucks because theres no games even in development yet that need any better than what we have now.

whats wrong with 40 nm > ?
The leakage is so bad that it won't reduce power consumption much, so the heat of these things will be too great to make them much quicker, unless the problem is fixed.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/878/1050878/tsmc-40nm-revealed
I think that might be the story that he is thinking of.
Both nvidia and ati have totally new cards coming out at the end of the year so you would be better and wait and see what they both release.
Is that not a tad prudent? It's only March.. You could have nearly a full years good gaming on a 4870X2 or GTX295 by then..