I'm with you (and others) on this one.  I was wondering whether to buy an R9 290x or wait for one of these asics (two companies apparently wanting to offer these).   I'm not 100% convinced about the asics offers, and as someone recently said, the longer you stick around the Crypto world, the more careful you become.... too many things can/do go wrong in this "wild west" world!

Its time for me to see how well an R9 290x mines!

As someone was saying in a scrypt asic thread, "I thought scrypt was supposed to lock the asic guys out???".   If both SHA256 & Scrypt goes the asics way, that will be a sad day for the gpu guys!!   Not looking forward to that day.  I will probably buy into a small asic if they ever surface.