i was gonna but the 8800GTX 2 times, but ended up getting the 2900xt.

Theres some 3rd party heatsinks coming out of Computex.

If you have an intel chipset, you can crossfire, and have alot better performance than an 8800ultra overclocked but for alot less $$$.

i think the fan is a little too loud in a quiet environment (i do have a sapphire 2900XT) and it does shoot out some warmy's too.

Dont care about power usage coz all high end video cards do roughly the same.
Idle is extremely good, super quiet and cool (using windows desktop stuff)