Finally got round to getting myself a Asus Geforce GTX 570 Direct CU II, I thought they looked big in the pictures, but in the flesh it's massive lol.
I'm looking forward to seeing how good these new coolers are.

I do wish Asus would sell both reference and directcu versions, at one point we could get both without problem. There's most definetly a market for both.

I will get some pictures posted later (when I get my camera back from my mother).