I had a great time. I was one of the lucky people to walk away with an Asus 6870 DC card. Thanks to all the vendors that put on a great demonstration.
Utnorris thanks for letting me ahead of you so I could get the lucky #219!
With the temps you are getting I would not worry one bit. If you are concerned you can always go with one of the self contained liquid systems like the corsair H50. But again 70C is fine for Sandy chips.
If you are like me.....
upgrade
I went from an EVGA 760 with a 920 to my current setup and I am very happy. I even had extra cash left when i upgraded. :)
Bloodrage is the better of the two boards. I have used P6T-D, Giga-X58-Extreme, Evga 758, Evga 759, Evga 760, MSI X58-M, Asus RE2, Asus Gene, and the Bloodrage.
I can do 2k memory and 238 BCLK (PCI-E mod) on the bloodrage. I Love it!
Foxconn make is very easy to get to 200 BCLK, far easier...
I have been very lucky and have never had to RMA a card more than once. *knocks on wood* I would make sure that you ask EVGA to do as much pre testing before they ship the replacement card to you.
The freezer fan does a great job keeping my ram nice and cool. I have done some cleaning around the case since I snapped these photos and it looks much cleaner now. I am getting a CPU water loop soon to tame the Q6600
Funny thing about this "driver story" is I have seen machines run vista with a single 8800 GTX. Anyone that was at the Nvidia reality tour can confirm this. So they are out there. I am not an expert on drivers buy someone with the right knowledge could possible talk one of the luck SOB's that...
BFG 8800 GTS 420 obo +Shipping
Brand New.
XFX 7900GS 175 obo shipped
This is less than 1 month old never oc'd I have all accessories.
8800GTS link
7900gs newegg link
AMD XP 1700+ palmino AGOIA 0211TPBW 25 shipped
Socket A MB Shuttle AK31v3.1 15 shipped
Socket A...