What will YOU do with Fermi?

Here's what some people have already done:

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i havnt had a good heater for my legs since my old celery 330 from 04!
maybe itll puff it hot enough to cook me breakfeast so i dont gotta hop into the kichen in the mornings... lol...

*note im not getting fermi... my 260 sli still runs strong*

I would go 480 SLI. Have a water block on one to boil my tea, and the sink on the other to fry my eggs.

When they run out of stock? You have to be in stock first

You already have a personal heater there cjl

yeah won't be buying it either. sure the physx/hair tesselation demos look amazing but only the handful softwares will ever support them for a while. (just look at physx and how many games make use of them...).

Also this depends from a person to person but being power efficient and being SILENT is really important for me, and HD5000 really delivered that. So i'll be purchasing HD5870 instead!

Do you think the price for HD5850/5870 even drop? cause some 5870s are already $100 below GTX480. After seeing the reviews for GTX480 I'm kinda starting to doubt that HD5800's prices will go down.

Use it in the OTHER direction to power my ENTIRE HOME. Even then it gets as hot as any other nuclear reactor:

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There, I gave a Crysis vote, but I thought it did terrible in that game (compared to ATI).

Performance is good, good job Nvidia. *pat on the back*

Im being 100% serious. Yeah its real power hungry, makes a good amount of heat (no more than a 5970) but enthusiasts arent going to care about that.

In the UK you can pick up 2 x 5850's for less than a GTX480

I just realized the release was the 26th so i woke up today and it just slammed into my head so i went on thier website to check them out and see thier spec's....

They come at a good price, I am definitely going to pick one of them up They look Awesome. And it will be a huge jump for me since I am still playing on my 8800GTS 640MB which maxes almost out mostly everything at 1080p but ever since i connected a second monitor it's harder for it to handle it and I honestly just want to buy one to play around on crysis fully maxed out on 1080p to feed my eyes

I checked out some websites and it seems like the 480 is significantly more powerful then ATI's most powerful single GPU, 5870. Correct me if i am wrong.

Also, I have an 850watt PSU so i think it will handle this card perfectly fine.? I don't know if its enough to SLI them but one card should be handled well.

I just can't even imagine how badly these cards will rape new titles on maxed settings and on ridiculous resolutions.

The noise is really telling. My 4890 at 50% is LOUD, and 100% it's laughable really. I can't imagine being louder.

I don't game with headphones, so at 50% while gaming i have to crank my speakers up, Fermi would piss off me neighbors pretty bad.

for the price they might as well throw in a closed liquid cooling system for it

That is just crazy stupid loud!. 95*C!

Guys, its a powerful and hot GPU with a tiny fan spinning at absurd rpm's. Ofcourse its going to be loud.

-To make it queiter, you can add higher quality thermal compound so it runs cooler requiring less fan speed.

-If the card isn't ridiculously loaded, there is no need to turn the fan that high.

-Get a good case so the case helps cool it.

-Place a nice big and quiet PCI-Slot fan below the card and another small fan on the rear grill so you can turn down the fan running on the actual card.

-Buy noise canceling headphones lolz

-Or you can buy a professionally modded card that has a different cooler with a larger fan located right onto the heatsink for the GPU so it runs cooler and spins slower.

-Chances are, if you can afford this card, you can also afford accessories with it to make it quieter and better..etc.

So now its $500 for a gtx480 and god-knows-how-much for accessories to make it not annoying? That's a slippery slope to be on man.

Thermal paste does nothing to reduce the heat of the cooler itself. It only facilitates heat transfer between the chip and the cooler. You will still need to dissipate the same 300W, so fan speed will still need to be very high.

I'm sure i can find better use for that $1K and get better performance.

Best power supply for gtx 480 sli

its platinum certified with a 340a 12v rail

an enthusiast will know how to get the most for their hard earned money, you mean a fanboy wont care about wasting money...

For this poll Randomizer, i love you.

Well, i don't know, maybe its hot and loud, but if it runs and does well in performance, i'll find a way to tweak or change something to suit myself. I'm getting it or maybe if they get some more 400's cards in the near future, i'll get those. They sound like awesome cards.

I think people have forgotten how successful the 4870 X2 and the 9800 GX2 were, though they were dual GPU cards but I remember the 8800 GT and 8800 Ultra getting pretty hot too.

Whilst the thermal management may seem impressive at the moment (and it is) only time and some serious gaming sessions will really test it's mettle.

Well if they stick with it and after the time and money invested there is no reason to think otherwise, then as the GPU yields and drivers mature that should bring better performance from some of the later iterations and by the time the 2nd gen Fermi cards are ready, DX11 games may be more popular with the devs and if they are tessellation heavy then Nvidia cards may be the better option by then.