Nvidia 8800GTS pictured here

I might get excited once i see it outperforming the current gtx,ultra and at the same time costing a lot less than those same gtx`s,ultra`s!
Oh i know some will say thats not gonna happen cos they`ve got to get rid of old stock 1st.This is true and probably the reason why its so hard to buy an actual 65nmGT atm.
If your buying then i would guess its gonna be the new year before most of us get something 65nm from nvidia.Ive waited a year so another month or 2 wont kill me.

More Pictures here:
http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/G92_GeForce_8800_GTS_512_Card_Pics_%26_Specs/5405.html

I can't actually see any fan blades on that. Is that because they're underneath somehow, or the fan isn't fitted yet, or are they actually visible I am just looking straight through them?

This fan is a turbine , not a conventional fan , that`s the reason you dont see the blades.

So ugly, you'd think nViduh could have payed like 100bucks to some freelancer to create a cooler logo.

The fan blades are on the outer edge, only a couple of mm are showing. Has anyone got any idea how much one of these will cost

Mr. Brooks, the fan blades aer on the outer edge of the fan. Its a blower type fan.

It's a squirrel cage fan.

yes i will have 4
just based on these pics alone
and next month i will on hype or
just anyday claims will have 4
more. LOL just kidding

what is the difference between this one and the 8800 GTS 640 320bit?

The fan is actually that gray thing you see on the above picture.

Stephen the fan is centrifugal, the rotor spins and makes a vortex so air is drawn into the center and pressure builds at the edge. 

the fan is enclosed around the sides except where there is a gap between the fan and the heatsink block so all the air goes pouring out there. 

If its anything like my air conditioner's fan it produces an angled flow (so it does not come out perpendicular to the side of the fan enclosure but at an angle) so flow will be lost due to turbulence and friction where it hits the heatsink fins

that might be reduced using curved heatsink fins like the fins on the Themalright Ultra CPU heatsink as these catch the flow and redirect it more efficiently

bet they didnt think of that !

it's right there...it's a blower. like you. gtfo n00b.

" what is the difference between this one and the 8800 GTS 640 320bit? "

I hardly see any difference between the 8800GTS 512MB 256-bit 128sp 650MHz/1,96GHz and the 8800GTS 640MB 320-bit 96sp 500MHz/1,6GHz

Any help?

What's the deal with the blower being angled downward? The only NVidia fan weirder-looking than this one was the screaming mini-blower on the FX 5800. I'm not a big fan of the fan on my Radeon HD3870, but at least it's quiet.

[quote]what is the difference between this one and the 8800 GTS 640 320bit?[/quote]

why you reading the inquirer if you cannot understand the difference, go google it,

There is quite a difference between this card and the 640mb GTS. This card is based off the GT, but with a larger cooler and 128 shaders. The GT is quite a bit faster than the old GTS, and the new GTS looks to be theroretically 20% faster than the GT.

Thanks for explaining about the fan, everyone. I've never owned a graphics card fast enough to need a centrifugal fan, though my old air conditioning unit had one. It broke and I had to get a new one. Hope the expensive graphics cards' ones are more reliable...