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My brother's card (9800GTX+) idles at a much lower temp than that, around 40-44 but I guess it's not high-end anymore. It was in a time, so I don't if it falls under your claim.
Anyway:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Zotac/GeForce_GTX_295/33.html
Just took the first reference cooling card review in the front page's "latest reviews" sliding bar. The fact that it is the GTX295 just makes this point stronger: there are many high-end cards that idle at 50ºC and below. The other cards before that one are not reference and idle lower than 50ºC.
It's good to see that powerplay works this time, it's certainly a good and very necessary improvement. It was also highly expected, though. But, and I know I'm going to be flamed again, IMHO ~60ºC at 240Mhz even if it's only 24% fan speed, just only suggests that the card will be very hot under load.
People, even enthusiasts will hardly ever consider heat output when it comes to buying a high end card.
1. Because its more than likely they will change the stock cooler with water cooling or aftermarket GPU cooler..
2. Mainstream users just aren't on their computer as much, I doubt they would even bother checking what AMD overdrive is and just trust the fact that their bundled computer system is perfect.
So why do you always get into irrelevant debates when you post into an ATI related thread? And I don't see how you can be so sure with the references you hand out, do you own a gtx295/285/280/260? do you own an ati 4850/4870/4870x2?

