Geforce GTX 400

i just looked on EVGA's site and saw the 470/480's have been released woot

anyone tried them out?

Haven't personally tried them. Read lots of reviews. Depends on what you want in a PC. If you need the best of the best, and are willing to pay roughly 100 USD more for 8-10% more performance, the GTX480 is the way to go. Be warned though, the 7 month old ATI Radeon 5870 keeps up fairly well in most games, and is significantly cheaper, cooler running, and consumes way less energy. (The 5970 which is about 100USD more than the 480 takes a clear win here. It consumes less energy, produces less heat, and outperforms the 480 in every game.)

The TDP on the 480 is set at like 250W maximum... somebody isn't telling the truth, because it eats roughly 133 watts more than a 188w ish radeon 5870.

The card also runs at roughly 100c under full load. Nvidia claims the card was built to withstand these temps... but solder melts at a temp just above that... not sure what those temps would do to the lifespan of a card.

Just a heads up, make sure you look at reviews before you jump on this new card.

Edit: ATI could easily roll out a refreshed 5000 line at any time and increase clocks by 10% across the board, completely negating any performance lead by nvidia. It all hinges on whether ATI feels threatened or not by these new Nvidia chips.

I'm really disappointed in the GTX 480.

Yes it does take the single GPU top-spot from the 5870 but barely and not in all games. It consumes a ton of power and runs insanely hot, the fan is very loud and it costs 100 bucks more than the 5870.

All things considered the 480 is almost irrelevant and what will probably happen is ATi will drop the price on the 5870 and 5850 by 50 bucks and make the 480 and 470 completely irrelevant.