The Radeon X1950 Pro series is a great choice for people who do not want to spend too much money at this time, yet they want a card that can run all games at acceptable settings. In our testing we saw that the GeCube X1950 Pro could run everything we threw at it, even at 1600x1200 with 4xAA and 16xAF. So it is safe to say that this card will last you far into 2007, until it is more clear what's happening with Vista, DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4.0.
The TEC FZ Cool cooling of Gecube's card works well, but tends to make the card a bit noisy because it uses two fans. Unfortunately only one fan is temperature controlled, the other fan is running at constant speed. Since there is no overclocking tool that works with the X1950 Pro at this time you are limited to using CCC overclocks or BIOS editing. With CCC you can pretty much max. out the available clock range which makes this a simple thing to overclock if you just want to set a clock and be done with it.
The price premium of $30 over a regular 512 MB X1950 Pro that you pay for the TEC module is justified if you are willing to trade a bit more fan noise for huge overclocking potential.