Fermi hasnt been scaling very well, and not in a SLI sense. The more they take away, it gets worse than it should be getting worse. The GTS 450 is fairly underpowered from the GTX 460. Id imagine they more the strip away, the worse it will get, and the GT430 will be even more underpowered. I dont really see the market though. If you dont need graphics that bad, your probably sticking with IGP. The lowest i can see going is the 56xx series. Even thats stretching it. Also, they are just going for market share now. The GTX 460 is suppose to cost about the same as a 5870 to produce, maybe 10 bucks less, and look how much they are selling it for. They must be breaking even at best, or maybe even losing money. If they take it down another 20$, then they will have some problems. AMD cards are generally cheaper to make, just how it works. Nvidia goes big, AMD goes small. So if AMD wanted to, they could sell 67xx for a very low cost and still make more money. Atleast it is very likely. Now Nvidia is starting this 1 big release every 2 years, and a refresh in between, like Intel, so now they might even get more behind, but hopefully catch up by the end of 2011, atleast for competitions sake. This 6xxx series looks like it should be quite the upgrade for those who stayed with 2xx, or 4xxx, like myself.