Yeah, I was quite surprised when I looked it up too; wonder if they are beast overclockers like the 79xx.
Only about $50 difference between the lowest XFX 7870 and MSI 570 TF III.
ive been looking at ssd to buy for my new rig too OCZ vertex 3 comes highly recommend, some people says there are minor problems with it though
an alternative is the Crucial 128GB m4 roughly the same price
its much cheaper to buy a decent cooler and overclock your cpu to bring up overall performance
the 2500k has so much potential (that's if you haven't already got it OC)