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Inno3D ready to ship Fermi GTX470 / 480 - Exclusive pictures

With regards to the "dodgy-looking boxes" - it might be that there is a flap on top of the actual box, with a little window that shows the card.

(That probably makes no sense at all unless you can visualise it :p)
 
I think the Inno 3D boxes look much better than the Palit ones.

I find the Palit ones quite tacky.
 
Sumanji said:
With regards to the "dodgy-looking boxes" - it might be that there is a flap on top of the actual box, with a little window that shows the card.

(That probably makes no sense at all unless you can visualise it :p)
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good point, although they seem to curve out rather than go out in a straight line, we may never know
 
Ok, lets straighten some things up, those boxes "would" have 10 cards in, the ones inside the box are sitting on the short end, 5 can fit in, another row of 5 next to them.

As someone highlighted, only EMPTY boxes are loose like that, with a tight cardboard inner box inside the outside edges would be tight. Go and open any mobo/gfx box you have like that, take the inner box out and the outter box becomes "loose".

So they are without question empty, those boxes take 10 cards, and theres entirely nothing to suggest the rest of those boxes have anything in, especially as you don't usually use the plastic wrapping to close up boxes of empty PR stunt cardboard for shipping.

As for shrink wrapping, the MASSIVE majority of things that get shipped out of computer retailers are not shrink wrapped, and haven't been for a decade. Mobo boxes and gpu boxes simply don't come shrink wrapped, neither does most memory, cpu boxes, or much or anything else I can think of.

As for saying "so much for no cards at launch", if anyone noticed the main person saying that has been, for 8 months saying at various launches that they wouldn't have any shippable quantity till March at the earliest, Charlie was saying that as early as of last May I believe(and guessing at it from 2008 still).

They are finally doing a 3rd/4th launch and no ones claimed their won't be ANY availability, but anyone with half a brain is assuming there will be next to no availability and that the highest end 512sp card will barely ever appear in retailers.
 
Hmmm lovely looking box :D


Expensive week for me that week me thinks, end of semester, HTC Desire and this... decisions... :p
 
drunkenmaster said:
As someone highlighted, only EMPTY boxes are loose like that, with a tight cardboard inner box inside the outside edges would be tight. Go and open any mobo/gfx box you have like that, take the inner box out and the outter box becomes "loose".

So they are without question empty, those boxes take 10 cards, and theres entirely nothing to suggest the rest of those boxes have anything in, especially as you don't usually use the plastic wrapping to close up boxes of empty PR stunt cardboard for shipping.

As for shrink wrapping, the MASSIVE majority of things that get shipped out of computer retailers are not shrink wrapped, and haven't been for a decade. Mobo boxes and gpu boxes simply don't come shrink wrapped, neither does most memory, cpu boxes, or much or anything else I can think of.
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If they are like most GPU boxes of late they have a thin laminated carboard outter shell and often a flap with the features detailed on the front that often comes loose.

Over 60% of the GPU boxes that come in where I work are shrink wrapped.
 
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drunkenmaster said:
Ok, lets straighten some things up, those boxes "would" have 10 cards in, the ones inside the box are sitting on the short end, 5 can fit in, another row of 5 next to them.

As someone highlighted, only EMPTY boxes are loose like that, with a tight cardboard inner box inside the outside edges would be tight. Go and open any mobo/gfx box you have like that, take the inner box out and the outter box becomes "loose".

So they are without question empty, those boxes take 10 cards, and theres entirely nothing to suggest the rest of those boxes have anything in, especially as you don't usually use the plastic wrapping to close up boxes of empty PR stunt cardboard for shipping.

As for shrink wrapping, the MASSIVE majority of things that get shipped out of computer retailers are not shrink wrapped, and haven't been for a decade. Mobo boxes and gpu boxes simply don't come shrink wrapped, neither does most memory, cpu boxes, or much or anything else I can think of.

As for saying "so much for no cards at launch", if anyone noticed the main person saying that has been, for 8 months saying at various launches that they wouldn't have any shippable quantity till March at the earliest, Charlie was saying that as early as of last May I believe(and guessing at it from 2008 still).

They are finally doing a 3rd/4th launch and no ones claimed their won't be ANY availability, but anyone with half a brain is assuming there will be next to no availability and that the highest end 512sp card will barely ever appear in retailers.
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Did he also report that ATI havent had any shippable quantity at their launch ?
 
Me either, specially as I don't actually care what kinda performance the nVidia cards put out, I just find it irritating when people put them down based on flawed information.
 
Some of us here are anxious to see this cards released, but just try and imagine how anxious are nvidia guys to get them out, lol and they are aware of what and when they can get them out, they must be having heart attacks galore in their teams, knowing the truth and not being able to do anything about it.

Kinda feel sorry for them
 
The boxes, do look snazy. But i dont care about the packaging, ids ratrher have a crap box and save 10 quid on the price of the card. at the end of the day you buy the card not the box :p
 
Rroff said:
If they are like most GPU boxes of late they have a thin laminated carboard outter shell and often a flap with the features detailed on the front that often comes loose.

Over 60% of the GPU boxes that come in where I work are shrink wrapped.
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Some gpu boxes, and FAR from most, and again some mobo boxes, in both cases you're talking about less than 5% and probably closer to 1% that come with the "flap", none of them would look like that in a box. Almost every case I've seen of them has some thing to hold them down and they are never that thin cardboard. Cardboard ONLY bends like that when its not got a secondard box in. I can take apart every single mobo/gpu box I have, a dozen or so, that have a cardboard "sleeve" outta box with a thicker stronger box inside and they all flex in that way without the inner box and are all tight with the inner box inside.

Those boxes ARE empty and thats all there is to it.
 
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