Haha, yeah man, I don't know so much about perfect balance, because it's the fastest single card on the market, and it's goddamn expensive here in Oz. It was more a vanity purchase to make up for all the hell I put myself through mixing this last album, and a reminder to take a few hours off and enjoy some games when the opportunity presents itself.
Generally an nVIDIA supporter here too, but they seem to have fallen by the wayside in this current generation. Their 470 and 480 cards are laughably bad. Not only that but they actively stopped people using their nVIDIA GPUs for PhysX processing when using an ATi primary card. There is a mod that made it possible, and now it's a bit more difficult due to nVIDIA making their drivers take a crap whenever they detect an ATi card in the same system. That's the sort of mentality I expect from Apple, and I will not finance it. Actually reminds me of what Microsoft did with Nutscrape Navigator some years back.
But anywho brief specs:
CPU: i7 920
Motherboard: ASUS P6T
RAM: 6GB G.skill NQ 1333mhz
GPU: ATi 5970
HDDS: 3 x 500gb Caviar Black | 1 x 1TB Caviar Green
PSU: Corsair 620W
Case: Antec P183
At the moment I'm just having residual heat problems. I haven't been able to get good temperatures in years in order to facilitate overclocking. For some reason things just run way too hot here, even when the ambient temperature is freezing (been quite cold here in Melb for the last 2 weeks). I'm sitll sussing it out with the hardcore overclocking gamer crew, but chances are I've got some defective part or other. It seems like the motherboard may be the instigator, but I can't be sure.
Well, there goes the only reason I would buy an expensive gfx card 
