Sapphire will be polluting your PC very soon...

Sapphire is such a great company. They deserve a better product.

Yay... now people can actually OC this thing to beat the 8800 GTX .

so wait does it come with that pimp ass Supercooling setup?

This thing will NEVER beat the 8800 GTX. You'd have to OC it to 1200Mhz Core and thats beside the fact that the R600's architecture is old and games are going to be using less and less of the R600's shaders.

Yes. It comes with what you see in the picture plus the normal bundled stuff. I am not sure if the fluid is in the system already or if you have to add it, but I do know the fluid is supplied.

nice... thats cool.. got a link to it? cuz i will so get that card if it comes with the Watercolling system

From the Sapphire press release it only comes with one card. They are using the picture as an illustration that the cooler is strong enough to cool 2 of these bad boys, or 1 and the CPU or whatever (not sure if I read that right, but I wouldn't expect a small resivoir to cool 2 high-heat GPU's and a CPU). However, there is no mention of liquid with the system.

900 core/ 2100 DDR memory should beat the 8800 GTX .

probably not. and u can overclock the GTX aswell, and much more than the XT - shader clock can go over 1.5Ghz.

If you want to put a heat pump in your system, yeah you can overclock a 2900 XT to match an 8800 GTX. But even then, you'd just be tying it, it's not like you'd blow it out of the water. What would be the point?

I really dont think the 2900XT will ever match the 8800 GTX. It would take a good watercooling system and about 100 watts more than the GTX, and the clock would have to be higher than 950Mhz!
Now, the GTX not only is far better, but the shader clock is 1.35Ghz and so it can overclock far more than the 100Mhz the 2900XT can do, so the GTX will always be much better.

Not too sure about that. nVidia's saving grace right now is 2x the TMU and 1.5x the ROP. Even the comparison on this website has the 2900 XT with almost double the shader power, with shaders clocked at half the speed. And if you do OC the shaders on the NV card to an insane amount you will not be able to feed them as it lags by 20GB/s memory bandwith. That being said, the 2900 XT should NOT have been named that, it should have released as the 2800XT to compete with the 8800GTS, it's just getting stomped by the GTX. Not a good start to the ATI/AMD combo...

a sign of things to come?

Very disappointing DAAMIT released something below par 6 months LATE, but people should stop comparing the 2900xt with the 8800gtx. Although the intended competitor is the 8800gts 640mb, the 2900xt still comes short in several aspects. Consumers can only hope the 2900xtx will not be such a disappointment and hopefully this card will drive prices on nvidia part's down too.