There is no such thing as a counter opinion.
An opinion is an un-biased personal description of how an individual feels about something so how can you counter that?
You made your opinion in your OP so when someone posts thier opinion then you "counter" it you are disagreeing with thier opinion thus telling them that thier opinion is wrong.
You stated your opinion on the new HSF, fine. Your right as a US citizen. I stated mine and made no comment on how you felt about yours, then you tried to tell me that my opinion was flawed?
Okay, where's the price cut? The reference card was originally around $150, then it got bumped up to $160. They're still $155-185 depending on brand. Where's the $140 card? Where's the savings?
NewEgg currently has the cheapest card with a Rev.2 cooler for $162 shipped and the cheapest one with the orig cooler is $170 shipped. Hmm, where is it indeed =.=
Also, prices for the new cards are a bit jacked because Nvidia can't counter ATI this round and ATI knows it so it's standard price gouging made possible by the high demand to have the best product forseeable for the next few months. Basically, its the consumers fault that prices are going higher while ATI's production costs stay the same or lessen. If we didn't clamour for ATI's new toys then ATI would respond with stagnating or dropping prices but we all gotta have whats new and ATI is charging a premium for that. This is nothing new so I don't see why anyone would be supprised.