Edited sentence: Competing products from Nvidia (8800GTS 320 + 640MB versions) can found considerably cheaper, and is readily available at many online E-Tailers.Not to mention the excessive power it uses to produce questionable performance, given its tardyness to market.On the negative side, according to well-respected PC hardware website HardOCP, the R600 HD2900XT is a letdown, and puts out a lot of heat and sub-par performance given how late to market it is.They are as fast or faster, and consume far less power, and put out much less heat.[H]ardOCP concentrates on real world testing,and not synthetic benchmarks (3DMark, among others) that most other sites use