We were shocked to learn that Nvidia dropped Geforce GTX 260 price all the way to $169 and the cards are available at this price today at Newegg.

XFX is the one to blame, as it offers its reference-clocked card for $169.99, but only after $30 mail in rebate. EVGA, Sparkle and BGF wants a bit more for the card and they’ll charge you $179.99 to $183.99 for most or $200+ for much overclocked cards.

Nvidia wants to pick up the sales of GTX 260 and to go against Radeon 4870, who is currently selling for $155 for 512MB version and $169 for 1GB version. With GTX 260 at this price point, you can imagine that the GTS 250 will get much cheaper.

You can get GTX 260 at these prices here.