NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 480 (codenamed Fermi) has been one of the hottest forum topics of the last months. There was drama from all sides, NVIDIA users speculating about the nearing end of ATI, ATI users comforting themselves in words like yield, heat and power. The public release of GeForce GTX 480 last month shed light on many things: yes Fermi is fast, yes it also needs a lot of juice which makes it hotter and noisier compared to AMD's offerings. When the cards were first announced there was no immediate availability, and shelf dates were expected to be mid-April. In the recent days we have seen the first merchants listing availability of the GeForce GTX 480, and shortly thereafter "out of stock". We were lucky enough to receive a GTX 480 production card from Zotac for an SLI review.