Originally Posted By: pca
Unfortunately, my inner small child was somewhat irritated to find that the single-slottedness of the cards didn't extend to the actual dimensions, as the heatsink fills the slot next to the card completely. Annoying, as this actually reduces the available slots by one, covering the sole remaining PCI slot.

I absolutely hate the size of the new cards. The heat sinks are just incredibly massive and the length of the cards are just getting stupid. I lost two of my internal SATA ports because of the ignorant design of the mainboard puts the video card right over last two in the row.