Fortunately for me, my missus says that the length of it is not important.

All this speculation has been fascinating. I am enjoying reading this thread but to be honest I will not upgrade until a card comes out that is at least a 60%-70% faster than my 5850. (I don't care what colour it is either). I am CPU limited at the moment. I plan to go i5 soon, perhaps my position on this will change then.