Gordon, I don't live in a shoebox, but I do game in my office which is a 14'*12' area. I don't live in Canada where you guys don't regularly see temps in the 90 degree F. area, in fact last year we had 44 days of 100+ temps so when your a/c is doing all it can do to keep your house under 80 during summer heat, running 2xGTX 480s in your "shoebox" + 3 monitors and a 55" plasma can get it cooking. Like I said, with a good cooler the 480 is a keeper, with a reference card stacked in SLI its damn near possible to bake old 8800gtx's in your case.