anyone know when this card is gonna hit the stores?

Hits Japan this month.

What about the USA?

UK order point is overclockers.co.uk, 1-2 weeks expected delivery.

NewEgg has them in stock since last night.

The USA distributor MaLabs stocked them more than a week ago. I guess retailers like NewEgg/ChiefValue, eWiz, etc. have just added them or in the process of doing so. Search with Froogle and PriceGrabber, if not for the model then for resellers of Leadtek in general and check their sites directly.

You are mistaken. NewEgg hasn't had them instock for over a week. (Edited to make less mean.)

The first batch must have sold quick.

This card is sweeeet! I bought it online last week. Very nice performance. Lots of bundled games included. I can play GRAW, COD2,F.E.A.R, FAR CRY, and HALF-LIFE EPISODE1 at max settings (resolution = 1024 X 768).

Must at least have 400W PSU, 13Amps~ on 12Vdc or your PC will shut down. I had to replace my 300W PSU since this card consumes a lot of power.

here is a link from Newegg

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814122009

350W is recommended which generally accounts for the shoddiest generic PSU and means that a quality 300W may be fine. But yeah, it comes down to meeting some minimum amperage requirement and this card actually consumes the least power for the performance (and much less than previous generation high-end parts which it meets or beats). It is also smaller, runs cool and quiet and overclocks well.

Everyone and their cat is stocking them now. NewEgg is overpriced as usual. Check with price search engines but 3gplaza looks among the lowest at the moment.

Scroll down to the bottom for graphs of power useage and temperature:

http://www.4gamer.net/review/a7600gt/a7600gt.shtml