If you want a factory overclock of a few mhz more, or a dozen MB more RAM on the card, you wind up paying close to double this price.
This card still outperforms stock nVidia GTX 280 cards (their newest ones) in gaming benchmarks.
ATI has released the Radeon 4870 which rivals this card. The ATI card is slightly faster in all respects except for texture fill rate, where nVidia's 9800 gx2 oc excels. Now bear in mind not all 9800 gx2 cards are the same. Out of all available models, this PNY overclocked edition is the 3rd fastest of all 9800 gx2 overclocked cards on the market - and at the sweetest price point compared to other 9800 gx2 cards.
Between the Radeon 4870 and geForce 9800 gx2 oc I opted to get this PNY card. I plan on using it under Linux (dual boot), and they made a big hullabaloo about Open GL 2.1 and Linux compatibility. If you need to, dare to compare at GPU Review and you will realize the hotness of this deal.
