CeBIT's running, & R600 is expected shortly, so that means nVidia's ready to roll out their next-gen mainstream cards. DailyTech's got the latest update on the 8600-series.

"The budget-priced trio feature full support for DirectX 10 features including pixel and vertex shader model 4.0. NVIDIA has yet to reveal the amount of shaders or shader clocks though. Nevertheless, the trio supports NVIDIA SLI and PureVideo technologies."