Quote Originally Posted by Lemur View Post
That might be a real wait. According to the latest news, the Fermi cards won't ship until mid-March at the earliest, in "low quantities," and they're gonna be hot, hot, hot.
Your first link says that the 5800 series from ATI is getting 4% yields, which is untrue. If they were only getting 4% yields, there would be even less in stock than there are now. It's closer to 40-60%, and Fermi is getting better yields than that site sayss as well: http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/17205/1/

Concerning heat, that same article says:
we were told that while running one Fermi card alone or two single-GPU cards is fine, going any higher may introduce thermal issues.
So if one fermi card is fine, and 2 fermi cards are fine, that means you have to triple SLI to get thermal issues. And I don't think triple SLI for fermi is a matter of concern for the OP considering the budget.