Interesting of course!

Will this do battle with dual core 6800 ver 2? I'm thinking Nvidia could expand on the sli idea and just start bundling a couple gpu's on a single board - but that's totally a guess.

Nice to see 2005 will be upping the stakes again :) and finally both sides will have PS 3.0

Well, 2 6800 will cost much more than one R520 for sure. And what is the ridiculous hype about that PS 3.0??? Nobody has demonstrated any significant quality or speed improvement when PS 3.0 is enabled. It is just silly - a small and unimportant thing for us-consumers, somthing that nVidia has made a fuss around, just because they had nothing else to brag about. Remember when 3dfx made Voodoo5 with 2 chips - everyone said - well, it is lame, bla bla bla, but now, when NV does that, everybody says - wow, cool! How is that not biased???

If memory serves ATI was skeptical about the 3.0 standard for todays games but would implement it down the road if required.