"Fermi is the second coming" point of view: Epic Fail.

"GT200 sucessor / RV870 competitor after 6 months" point of view: it's OK. No more, no less than realistically expected.

Power consuption, heat and noise are ridiculous, though. Apart from those going SLI, running outrageous res. and/or multi-monitor I fail to see any good reason to grab a gtx480, imho. From the reviews I read (anand, HWC, Elite Bastards, ixbt and graphs from another sites) the gtx470, if it's really priced at $450, Nvidia should bury them and pretend it was a April's fool joke.