The card that is talked about here is : Gainward Radeon HD 4870X2 2GB GDDR5, PCI-Express 2.0, 2xDVI "Goes Like Hell" edition. And from what i can see so far in my gaming, Goes like Hell it does. i said i would post back if im not happy about the card, and why. Well, im happy about it, in fact im so happy about it i want to share it with you guys 
. the Card is AT LEAST as stabile as my old card was in gaming situations. Hours of sleepless gaming and no crash (Fallout 3, Crysis Warhead). the added noise it make compared to my old card isnt really much of an issue since i use a very good computer case, with good sound proofing. happily it also has a good air ventilating design, and that help this card a lot. it run very hot when pressured but still like i said, no crashes. like all graphic card upgrades from one older version to something newer and thereby faster, a serten level of the wow factor will occure and so also for me. this card is simply insanely fast, and i was allredy having a fast card to begin with. im highly impressed and i think i can now officially recomend this card to anyone who lik e to play their games on 1920x1200 resolution. i dont have monitor that goes any higher so i cant say how it will perform on those scales, but in the 1920x1200 range, the card run anything i can throw at it with max settings and at least 2x AA. Very impressive and highly recomended. Thanks for the time you spent reading this. 
Latest update. 30.11.08. I have now used the card for a few days and feel i can give it it's final judgement. the card is ROCK stabile on my computer, pure and simple. I have played : Fallout 3, Crysis, Crysis Warhead, GTR Evolution, Red Allert 3, Sins of a solar empire, Grid, Dirt, Flight Simulator X + the acceleration exp. pack, Sup Commander + Alliance, Colonization (the new one), Far cry 2 and Settlers Rise of an empire + The eastern realm. There has been NO crashes or graphic driver issues on any of those games using the latest 8.11 Catalyst drivers. on Crysis Warhead i also placed my avatar in the woods somewere and left the game running, it did so for a good 6 hours, on return i took a good sprint in the jungle and jumped into a river, alt tab'ed the game, and the temperature on the graphics card was still the 72 degree celsius that i have seen under gaming all the time, with a room temperature of aprox 23 c. the Fan's was spinning at about 60 %, they where "there" so to speak, but not making the most annoying sound. a bit higher on the sound volume, and the sound of the fans was in practice gone only the acceleration-deacceleration of the fans made a background change in the sound picture. Some of the games i listed here to have tried I have not played for a very long time aprox 30-60 minutes eatch, Those are Red Allert 3, Flight simulatior X + exp, Sins of a sol. Dirt and Settlers. It is mainly Fallout 3 and some Crysis that has been played the most. Fallout 3 for aprox 15-18 hours. From what i have seen and experienced in all that game time combined, is that the card is very good, totally stable and VERY VERY fast, what a wonderfull combination . there are many brands of the card using the chipset made and sold at a lot of different clockspeeds w. different memory types. ME, i have only tryed this one out that i got, so i cant tell anything about the others, but THIS card, i personally reqomend to anyone who play games using a more or less simular PC setup to what i use. different hardware configurations may give a less favourly result, though i hope not. i think the card is brilliant. . thanks for the read, i wont post more about it unless it is highly significant and/or negative.
Link to Pic's of my PC and it's placement : http://www.gamespot.com/users/knut-am/images
Monitor : Eizo 24" LCD FlexScan S2410WK TCO-03 black,Wide (1920x1200),8ms,1000:1, VGA/DVI.
Computer Case : Silverstone Temjin TJ09 black, Aluminium, 6 fan's.
Powersuply : Thermaltake Toughpower 1200W Modular.
Motherboard : ABIT IN9 32X-MAX WiFi, nForce-680i SLI.
CPU : (temperarly) Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.67GHz. 4MB. with ZALMAN CNPS9700NT CPU cooler.
Ram : 2x, Corsair Dominator TWIN2X6400C4D 2048MB,DDR2,2x1GB(KIT),DHX,E.P.P, CL4-4-4-12T, 4gb total.
Harddrive : 2x in raid 0, Western Digital Raptor X 150GB SATA 16MB 10000RPM. + 1x Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB.
Graphics : Gainward Radeon HD 4870X2 2GB GDDR5, PCI-Express 2.0, 2xDVI Sound : Creative SB X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Professional Champion Edition.
DVD : NEC DVD-burner AD-7173 Duallayer,LabelFlash,Multirecorder
Data bacup : Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 250GB USB2.0.
OS :Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit in Raid 0
Saitek Eclipse Keyboard, Logitech Trackball Mouse and TrackIR 4Pro.
I am for the most part using a Logitech G25 weel for driving games, at times a Logitech Momo racing but also others weel's on rare ocations are in use. CH-Products's Flightsim Yoke Pro and Pro Rudder pedals for Flight simulator X. an old Microsoft FF Joystick do the trick in most games that require a joystick to be played.
09.25.2007 : I have changed power suply on my rig from the Corsair 620W to a 1200W Thermaltake. the old one was good but after a period of new games that had some unforseen crashes on 1920x1200 res. i felt it was the easyest way to seek out the root of the problem. Nvidia drivers are now starting to get so good overall that i was begining to suspect that my power suply was a bit on the week side. the 1200W solvedthe problem and games like World in Conflict now sparkle among the other games in 1920x1200 with AA and evrything turned on max. 1200W also givesome future compability with next generation cards, all though for me next, it is the CPU that first has to go. another thing i have done is to skip the dual boot OS, in practice i discovered that i was in Vista all the time anyway, and will just use secondery computers for eventual XP games that Vista cant handle. My experience on this are that those games are few and far between. my Vista64's biggest problem are not the old games but the old Starforce versons those games some times use.
11.25.2008 : I have thought that my next change on my computer would have to be the CPU. However, as it turn out to be, the CPU keep on going and show no real sign of becoming too week. Witch i guess prove that as Long as it is doo'ing the job, changing it will not do much for performance. oh, yes, Performance , I love the word, specially when it is up to my requirements, which means all my games in native 1920x1200 res with minimum 2x AA and all details set to max level. Obviously, anyone who might read this and have some basic "know how" of games like Crysis and Fallout 3, (that is the latest hog for those of us that keep track of them as they go by), know that Crysis stopped that dream a long time ago. BUT fact is on my rig, as it stand with specs above but with my old graphics card, the XXX version of 8800gtx ultra, i have been able to play Crysis at 1680x1050 with 2x AA and max detail at perfectly playable fps. not 40-50fps of-cause, but absolute fine fps, even for someone picky on the subject like myself. I have been ok with this in Crysis, specially considering the well known steep requirements the game and it's expansion pack has when it come to system specs. Games like the newer Far Cry 2, (witch is a bit of a let down, sadly), run perfectly on my rig at my native 1920x1200 w. 2x AA and everything on max, all this with only tiny and really insignificant signs of slow-downs. Fallout 3 was bought at the same time and that really made it all clear to me that it was time to do something to my Computer again. the new graphics card i have invested in is the Gainward Radeon HD 4870X2 with 2GB of GDDR5 Ram, the "Goes Like Hell" edition. It is factory clocked at 790mhz core speed and memmory speed at 950mhz. Part from the added background noise in my computer after putting it in, the graphics card seem to "go like hell" just as the name predicted. I will need afew days now to check this out in practice on different games. I will be fair to you all who might read this, and post back in here in case the card should prove to be trouble. We all know how terrible it is when our gaming turn into a wrestle match with the bug devil at the hardware department. I will let you all know in a few days if the change was a good one. If nothing is posted it mean I'm happy with it. Thanks for reading so far .
