This is very reminiscent of the R300 ATi Radeon 9500/9700/9800 hey days.
Even though I am very much an nVidiot I raise my glass to ATi....in fact I'm hoping to get a couple of 1GB HD4870 cards and crossfire them.
To those who are lucky enough to have their hands on one of these lovely cards, what are the dimensions?
How "thick are they?" (as in do they take more than 2 slots or just 2 slots like my G92 GTS)?

Due to the ill thought out layout of my motherboard (P5E3 vanilla) I will not be able to use any PCI-E devices if I get 2 Radoens, luckily my X-Fi can sit in the bottom PCI slot (where it is currently).

would be nice if the P5E3 was layed out like the other P5E boards with say a PCI-E slot for audio devices above the primary PCI-2.0x16 Graphics slot.

Anyway just thought I would say that ATi's marketing team are exceedingly clever. nVidia were boasting and parading around terms such as "Whoopass" and "wide gulf in performance over previous generation", yet ATi were "playing the price to performance game" and instead it appears they accidentally produced a high performing product.

Kudos to ATi, now is the time for Intel to acquire them...

John