I just received this card and it looks really nice. Packaging is done very well. It seems the styrofoam inserted in the box surrounds the card as if it where molded to fit just perfectly. Card installed fairly easily, it's big, but I wouldn't say gigantic as I have an Antec 900 case and you just have to route the tail end of card into one of the Antec's fan bay areas, (I had to move a hard drive out of it's way, no biggie). I'm a WoW player so it's not challenging the card much but everything is cranked full and I'm pulling +60fps in cities at 1680x1050. My GTS 8800 was somewhere in the 30's. I don't see any problems with heat as it exhausts out pretty well and the fan is typical for a card this size. Put it this way, you know it's there, though it's not silent, but its not jet-engine loud. I'm running at stock speeds, and I'm hoping to try Crysis and Far Cry 2 out shortly, as those are the two games I bought it for, along with some upcoming releases. This things runs at stock...Read more
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