yer i noticed that when i saw all the specs together and told a rich m8 not to get it

Dual!!! go for the x4 of them bad boys lol

However, this brings us on to the thorny issue: the performance of the GTX 590 3GB right now is excellent, but there’s no guarantee it will be after the slew of triple-A games that are due over the next few months. With everything from Homefront to Deus Ex: Human Revolution to Crysis 2, the Nvidia driver team has its work cut out to deliver the same kind of chart-topping performance for every game. With a single-GPU card, you’re much less likely to face serious performance and compatibility issues, but if a multi-GPU card or setup doesn’t recognise a game, the consequences can be frustratingly bizarre.

Driver support isn’t the only caveat either. When we were testing the card, the design of the cooler meant that a lot of heat was dumped into the front of our test case. This could lead to overheating hard disks (if you have them). The cooler is hardly quiet, but it’s not horrifically noisy, unlike the HD 6990 4GB which kicks into hairdryer mode after a few minutes of gaming. As such, we recommend water-cooling the card, even though this will void your warranty and could set you back up to £200.

Ah shame then, guess I'll go for a dual 580 SLI solution.

Big caveats on the 590 from Bit-Tech: