i bought a pair of 295's at the start of the year, put them in an Antec skeleton case...the heat from these is scary! i even contacted XFX about the heat and they said it was normal...even though it burns your hand! I wasn't impressed with a single 295 (920 @ 4ghz, 6gig corsair dominator, Asus striker rampage) but put it with another and it was nearly 3 times higher in 3dmark vantage. this system has been sitting at my mother's house gathering dust for 5 months unused...i just play Left 4 dead on my HP laptop! I've been an nvidia fan since 6800, but looking at the figures above...you can't argue about how good the ATI card is. i'd go with that or hang fire to see what the 300 series nvidia's gonna achieve