I swear next time nvidia should just send out 50 cards to random pc enthusiasts via a lottery, instead of sending them to reviewers, and tell them to post their impressions of the STOCK card on a forum. I WISH i could drop $700 for one of these cards. If I got one for free I wouldn't be finding every flaw with it, I would be jumping up and down saying THANKS. It would be a different matter entirely if I was gaming and the card blew. life happens. That's what RMA and a lifetime/3 year warranty is for, it is not there so you can push a card to the breaking point and whine that nvidia makes a sucky card, and then take advantage of the system to get yourself a new one.

Hey nvidia if you are listening, send me a GTX590 so I can GPU render with it and post my impressions of what this card can do in capable hands.

Drives me nuts thinking about how the best, most power efficient GF 110's went into these 590's and people are wasting them by OCing when they don't know what they are doing. The 590 is clearly to any reasonable person a card that is already pushing the limit of what can be cost effectively engineered at this point in time, so why expect 30% OC on a card that is already pushed to the limit when you pull it out of the box.

And someone send some case fans to France, ffs, they seem to have run out.