The card isnt worth the price. The performance you get out of one card isnt what most people are looking for. People who have smaller cases and wants to have 3D surround vision should get this card. If you are looking for a card to play on a single monitor with highest settings possible a 570 is more then enough to get the job done. Most people don't have 30" monitors that support resolution 2560x1440 either.
Im going to be waiting for the 600 series before I get another video card.
I think going for top-end graphics cards is pointless. It depends on your goals, I guess.
Imo, have three types of mindsets:
1. People for who view not having the very best performance as a major hit to the size of their ego... or just have too much money to give a crap (or both). Thus, sinking inordinate amounts of money into it is fine... These are your so-called "enthusiasts" for whom that card is made. These enthusiasts don't even have to have that much knowledge of computer parts. They can either have a lot of zeal or a lot of money, or both.
2. People who just want to get the best price-performance ratio; ie, aiming to simply play most games with reasonable graphical/sound/etc enjoyment... not really aiming to blow anyone away, etc. I'm in this camp. We don't exactly like the fact that we're completely blown away by the people in group 1 (no, there's definitely some jelly), but we have too much restraint over our budget to just splurge like that. The main goal is to play as much as you can as well as you can within reasonable bounds. There's a pretty large middle area here. It's pretty subjective, too.
3. People who lack knowledge and just upgrade whenever they realize that they can't do something they want to (ie, their system is so old they can't even at all, or maybe their friends are doing it, etc. I would think that this is actually the largest camp, because these people are normal. They don't even know what the hell's inside of most computers they buy. "A Dell is good, miright?" <- That exasperated sigh that just escaped your mouth is wasted, by the way.
The boundaries between the three groups are kinda blurry. Hard to say when a person is one thing or the other; could be one thing one moment, another the next. Lots of variables.
... The better question is why I'm randomly deciding to state this obvious observation in this topic.
Oh well.
