Thanks, it was your recommendation upthread that started me looking at that card more closely when I was surfing around trying to get a general idea of what was out there that wasn't too expensive or too hardcore for my system or my needs. And yeah, the price on the Vapor-X version of it is pretty sweet, especially when compared with the 5870.
As for cooling I've got the fans that came onboard when I bought the rig plus one each for each internal HDD and a third extra that provides some additional airflow over the MB, specifically the expansion slots for the gfx/sound cards. Plus the one that's on the gfx card itself. And all the RAM sticks came with those heat-dispersing covers, I don't know if that helps a whole lot but I figure it can't hurt. TBH I wasn't sure what I was doing when I set it up, I just added as much extra airflow as I could with the space and power connectors available, lol.
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