I had the SAME question (just got MSI gtx 680 from amazon). Since they did not announce anything I doubt price drops will happen unless new series is due to come out. And I know this is not your question but highly highly recommend MSI my card idles at 30 degrees I used After burner OC (comes with MSI cards) my gtx 680 (you should get around same OC) is up little over 1200 (can go higher but want very good stability) and did it very easily with soft ware first time I ever OC a gpu. I play BF3, assassins creed 3, hitman absolution, ultra everything and stays around 70 degrees but when I know im gonna game for a while I will manual set fans to 60 and cards temps don't go above 65 degrees on full load so really does cool very well.