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Considering wider and wider Memory-Interfaces (up to two times 448Bit with the new GTX295 single PCB :wow: ): Never.
Personally I keep an eye on the case manufacturers returning to full-length-compatible cases, as it was standard a decade ago. (but somehow todays cases always have to put some 5,25" bays in front of this, so they get to deep for my setup while wasting free space in height)

You should wait for the GTX260 (might also try a GTS250, which isn't that much worse and a huge improvement from a 8600GTS.), as for example Vista does not allow different graphic-card-drivers to be active, so you can only run several cards of the same manufacturer.
Also keep in mind, that a 8600+4870 might actually be slower, then a GTX260 by herself, as can been seen here:
www.pcgameshardware.de/ai...
(don't think we had an english edition of this article, but the benchmarks should be unilingual )
As you can see: 4870+PPU (this actually works on modern operating systems, as the ageia physX card doesn't need any graphic driver. but getting new drivers at all is also getting hard, so not realy an option) are hardly any better then the GTX260 by herself, while the gtx260+ppu pairing is definetly faster then gtx260+8600gt. take this difference and subtract it from the 4870+ppu results and this combination marks the lowest end of the list.

Yes that's right. The 8400 is so overstressed by the calculations, that it slows the whole system down.