Late november, early december for the release date, I believe I've heard $200 for the 128mb card, but I'm not sure if that's the 6600GT or not, either way I here it's going to buy the best bang for the buck in terms of price/performance ratio. Go to nvidia.com, hit up the products section and look at the 6 series and read up on the 6600, lots of useful info there and regarding whether it's 256bit and also it has 8 pipelines that I'm pretty sure of.