First things first: you must have faith in the (NFORCE GODS),a lil optimism couldn't hurt, oh and most important a willingness to (overpay) because i have never witnessed a sought after board or any hardware or fairly new technology for that fact that wasn't overpriced at least for the first 60 days on the shelf. Also note* these boards that we seek so dilligantly are not mainstream they were designed to target a certain group of consumers,hardcore gamers as well as dedicated and curious pc novices. They dont expect to sell a slew of these boards. Thats why later you will see the same chipset on (AGP) boards, to sell to the common end user, who they know is not willing to shell out a huge chunk of loot to upgrade to SLI. Ya see these big companies hire peeps just like you & me for a reason, to keep in touch with reality. They know once you've sampled the high end stuff(you always want more)Like a drug addict,you get hooked.