Posted 01/10/2009 at 12:47:18am

Well, I'll find out soon enough.  Went in to Fry's today to pick up a 4870 x2 and saw a BFG GTX 295 sitting on the self.  I wasn't really looking to SLI or Crossfire and that's why I liked the idea of two GPU's on one card (I've got an Asus P5K deluxe with only one slot).  I saw the crappy reviews for the previous lines of nVidia x2 cards and the universal glowing reviews of the Radeon x2 so that's why I was going to buy one.  Both the Diamond and Visiontech x2's were selling for $550 at Fry's.  I know they can be had cheaper at Newegg and shipping is fast there, but I wanted to get my hands on one today (yeah, I know I'm impulsive)  This GTX 295  was $500.  I bought it because it was cheaper and it looked to be a better spec'd.  Prob should have checked online to see if there was any info before hand as the sales guy at Fry's said they just came in today.  I did get online when I got home figuring I could always return it.  I did a search for GTX 295 and found a fair number of articles quite a few with included benchmarking.  After reading all of them, I'm now glad I bought this.  Every article was the same, This card outperformed the Radeon 4870 x2 and everything but a 280 SLI setup.  All the reviews i saw had it either ahead or slightly ahead of a 260 SLI setup.  Time will tell if I stay happy with it after running it in my rig a while.  I am going to be picking up the parts for a Core i7 965 rig based on an Asus P6T board in the next few days so I'm hoping to move this over and down the road when prices drop, may get a second one.  But for now, two GPU's on a single card that is quicker and a little cheaper (at least today) than the 4870 x2 wins my vote.  I am interested in the thermals on this too, so I'll be checking around.