Nvidia GTX590 released

NVIDIA's dual-GPU GeForce GTX 590 emerges, can't slay the Radeon HD 6990 titan -- Engadget

Bunch of review links at the bottom of the Engadget post. Bit of a beast. Slower than a 6990 at the moment. Driver updates will most likely improve performance. It is a pair of GTX580s slapped on there, but they've been underclocked, so as expected, a dual GTX580 setup is still faster.

If you have the money for this or the Ati 6990 then water cooling these bad boys with one of these little widgets makes tons of sense.
Omni A.L.C.
The interposer plate for each is forth coming.

stormy13 said:

Don't plan on overclocking if you get one,

AnandTech Forums - View Single Post - Official GTX 590 Review Thread (16 reviews at this time)

Seems some of them like to turn themselves into $700 paperweights.

Nvidia have said it's a driver problem that doesn't have the proper overcurrent protection. The latest drivers apparently fix this.

NVIDIA said:

A few press reports on GTX 590 boards dying were caused by unsafe overvoltaging (as high as 1.2V vs. default voltage of 0.91 to 0.96V), & using older drivers that have less overcurrent protection. Rest assured that GTX 590 operates reliably at default voltages, and our 267.84 launch drivers provide additional levels of protection.

It is really. Considering there was no dual GPU card for the GTX4xx series, and how well the GTX580s scale in SLI, you'd have thought more effort would have gone in to it. Hopefully be better in a few driver updates. Though it doesn't help when it's been severely underclocked in every area.