Nervous About The ATI X1900

I have a X1900 on backorder-should ship any day now. Having some time with my new Mac Pro and reading up on the X1900 makes me very nervous about glitches, bad drivers and heat issues. Are these problems being blown out of proportion or should I be looking for a different card?
The 3D rendering on this thing is amazingly fast, but I'm also concerned about Motion gaining any real speed from this card. I also enjoy intense 3D gaming as well-soon to include Windows games via Bootcamp.
What other cards are available for the Mac Pros? Can't just be the three Apple has on their site. Thanks.

Sorry if what I posted earlier about a rev2 card turns out to not be the case, but it seems that there is some confusion among the people who have been talking with AppleCare. Some seem to have come away with the idea that there was just a bad "batch" of 1900xt's and others seem to have heard about a "v2".
It seems there are 2 different manufacturer's numbers, but the ROM # of the cards is the same...
Here's the link:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=94000596&sid=1&pageNo=7
Regardless of how they are differentiating between the cards, the fact that apple is shipping out replacements speaks volumes..
I can't be sure, based on this WOW forum thread, what exactly is going on, but if I end up using Apple Care myself I will be sure to report back.
3ghz MacPro   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   2g ram, 1900xt, digi002

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