[nzone]

That is what I am afraid of...I heard a lot of rumors about defective card. I am planning to have my 8800GTX replaced, I am 90% incline to buy 280 GTX because it is a single GPU and uses little power in idle mode. Because of a potential bad card, I might as well buy the factory overlocked version eVGA FTW or BFG OCX since they are hand picked.

4870x2 on the hand is a powerful card but it consumes about 100-130 watts more than the GTX. Since it is actually a crossfire card, I didn't think it works with a tv tuner well.

You have or had SLI setup, right? Does TQ/IT scale with SLI? If so, decision decision: $550 x2 or $539 GTX FTW