Eh, I know, but I just happen to have a double-fan cooling-ish thingy in there. That, with 3-monthly dust cleanings, and I never had any heat issues, no matter what I was playing with, and without a cooling pad (Didn't mention it, but I'm on a laptop too).
Oh, derp. Of course, laptop video cards probably can't go in desktop motherboards *facepalm*. I just thought that an external observer could see the cooling pad part as illogical if I didn't specify this. 'Cause there's obviously one of my creepy followers stalking this discussion right now.