WOW. Why is everyone all excited about the lack of availability. This card has been 2 years(more??) in the making. It has taken so long I figured it'll be out when it comes out. So now you got all the geeks around the WORLD wanting the newest card. Why? Because they've had the "newest" nVidia card for a year or more. They've been waiting for an upgrade, and it's here. There's no surprise in my mind that supply would be extremely limited until all the geeks with big bucks buy theirs.

I also read a comment about the GPU exceeding 100C while doing benchmarks and stuff. About 7-10 years ago nVidia did some research around silicon at high temps. If you can run the processors at high temps(allegedly up to 150C), you can dump more heat per cubic foot of air based on heat transfer equations. If I remember correctly nVidia successfully made some processors and provided some engineering samples to a few companies. The problem: the heat would rise off the GPU and would cause the insulation on the wiring for the molex connectors to melt off causing shorts to ground and shorts between rails. Rumor has it that's a bad thing to do to your PSU . Anyway, I believe they never marketed the product and chose instead to incorporate the technology into GPUs at a later date. Perhaps the time has come that they have incorporated that technology?

I'm not sure how I feel about having a component in my computer running so hot that water could boil off of it. I do know that the water cooled xtremegeeks in the forum will have a little problem if steam begins forming in their tubes.