I think I've never been so dissappointed by a new gen from nvidia as I am currently. Ok maybe it is the fastest single card (at stock speed) but a 6 month old card where all mods are available and there are coming some special editions with maybe 1500+ GPU our way maybe...I still prefer to bench 5870...

On the practical side I would never ever put that money-burner into my allday system...GPU 500€, power bill another 250€??? Ah yes and you need ear protection - 50€...maybe lots of Asperin also ^^
Also all reviews have been done in OPEN test systems - putting a 480 in a closed tower and thinking of summer with 32°C+ in my flat...lol that card will be killed before august for sure...

So I am one of thoose calling it: EPIC FAIL!

@xdan oh man please resize that image....