just got myself one of these beasts from newegg (sapphire). was gonna wait for the release of the non reference version  by sapphire but just went for it. very happy with it so far, smooth and sleek for a reference card and the fan works much better then anticipated. looks like there is a lot of headway on the card and i plan on playing with it on a few benchmarks.  Anyone els had the chance to play with one of these things yet? will post a few results if i get around to it.   o ya. thinking of upping my 6gb of ram to 12 , and the system is running awesome still Nate. no problems at all cept for faulty  5870 fans. got them fixed with aftermarket gpu cooler and it dropped their temps by 12-18  but had to jump for the next gen card. any opinions on what ram i should purchase