@Assassinator i am not sure but i read somewhere that the 8800 is still better then the 9800,. atleast faster,. although the 8800 does't have physx,.
you can't denie that the GTX 295 is way faster then the 9800 and you are 200% better off playing a game like Crysis with the 295gtx then with a 9800,. its a simple fact,. and other games too,. although i don't really want to question you or Zinga,. but some games have very high settings available,..
prices of the 9800 were also high when the card was first presented,.
anyway the most importend thing besides game suport now is also the suport for the CS4 series and other high end graphics program's and with maybe some good video GPU encoders on the way a expensive graphics card could be a good choice,.
check this and click "video processing",.>> they sure make it look worth awhile to encode with the GPU,. nvidia claims 20x faster then with cpu.
http://www.nvidia.com/content/graphicspl...index.html
o and skip intro,. ;p