Absolutely love XFX Support! I had a card fail and was utterly surprised that not only someone in the US answered the phone when I called, but he listened to the troubleshooting I had done and I didn't have to wade through a script repeating everything I tried. Not only that, the replacement card I got back from that was a generation newer! XFX Customer for life here!
allways used ati since 3dfx buy out then went to saphire.<< spelt worng on purpose LOL but since i got a xfx ill never go back to anything else love the waiting to test before just posting ever driver that comes out and when i do update there drivers just work great for me.
if this is still going i have a psu to run these bad boys. thansk that is my entry.
Love the 6690 because it shows the ability of AMD's GPU's to still take the single card performance crown despite the fact that the GPU its based on isn't as fast as nvidia's.
I absolutely love XFX because of how involved they are with their community. I get to play with Rika and Fefe pretty often and it's a blast to have that opportunity.
I've owned a number of XFX product over the years. I have never really had any issues with their products and just bought an XFX HD 6850 for my wife's PC build.
I think your original post summed up what there is to like about the 6990... but XFX is a pretty awesome company considering I have two of their cards now and they rock.