Really I am disappointed with the specs of these cards..
Very hot ,very noisy and not as fast as they should have been, also more expensive than the competition.
95 deg C, 70db, 850W for SLI system under load!...perhaps I'll hold off for a die shrink...
Still thankfully the 470 is 9.5" and requires 2x 6 pin plugs so it will fit my case/power supply.
I see raytracing is 8x faster, and folding@home is 3.5x faster for 480 than 280 - so maybe the Octane performance gain will make the proposition *passable*
BTW I see various reviewers lack a benchmark for Cuda performance comparison. Radiance might like to send out Octane with a std test scene to see if it could be adopted- good for publicity too