Thanks for the advice guys, but this card gets plenty of air, I have 2 120mm fans (front and rear) of my case, as well as 90mm fan in the side door... and there isn't much in the way of cable mess thanks to my modular PSU with sleeved cabling. nuhi, only official drivers were integrated, as downloaded from nvidia's official website. I shall try a fresh nLitend XP install and see if I suffer similar probs.