While blowers make a little noise they offer much better cooling per dollar before going passive, or with a near silent aftermarket cooler. Besides, blowers have come a long way at getting quieter. the one on my 570 is much much quieter than the one that was on my 9800. Not silent, but very acceptable, and it does not get any louder except under the heaviest of loads.
Anywho, the new AMD cards look sweet! Glad they are finally allowing for a full vent on back, I always thought that was odd before. Duel BIOS sounds like it is more to say they have it than being useful. 6 monitor out sounds neat until you realize that the crack goes down the middle like a duel monitor setup. 3, 5, 7, and 9 are the only real setups that matter until windows begins allowing for more than 9 monitors. Glad they stuck with normal RAM, as rambus always seems to stab their customers in the back before things are all said and done. Performance stats look good, but I'm not going to get hot and bothered about performance until I see real world tests. Also cant wait for the 600 series from nVidia as those should be pretty awesome as well.