I get a kick out of gamers who cry that this card is 'fail'; I am not sure what kind of gaming performance they were expecting. Could it be better? I would say yes, especially in the power and heat dept. Gaming benches are right where I would have expected, and the heat and power issues were known long before launch. I really saw nothing that surprised me at all, and I am not that smart.
I think folders should be more disappointed; I was hearing some incredible numbers, and a 30-40% increase in PPD is not so impressive right now. I think for folders Fermi is still a waiting game, as I would guess that nVidia was more worried about gaming performance on launch. If this architecture was GPGPU-focused, then I would hope that there is more PPD to be found in drivers and Cuda/F@H Core refinements. A GTX 475/485, or maybe even the 500 series will help with the power and heat, prime concerns with 24/7 folders. Again, more waiting.
I think the troublemakers coming out of the woodwork in this thread signals that HWC is certainly on the map now in the hardware world. Otherwise, they wouldn't take the time to come here.